Selim I transformed the Ottoman Empire through bold conquests and strategic diplomacy, doubling its territory and securing its dominance in the Islamic world. This video explores how his military ...

His new book is GOD’S SHADOW: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World (Liveright/W.W. Norton & Co.) At the end of August, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan ...

Most Americans don’t know that their morning cup of coffee connects them to the Ottoman Empire. Few are aware that this bygone Muslim state helped to birth Protestantism, America’s dominant ...

One of the most compelling narratives in “God’s Shadow,” Yale professor Alan Mikhail’s very original and wide-ranging account of the life and career of the Ottoman Sultan Selim (1470-1520 ...