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 ...