H. Erdem Cipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Yavuz'un Kavgası: I. Selim'in Saltanat Mücadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvacı) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.

• AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart One: The Making of a Sultan1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne2. Politics of FactionsPart Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite ImagePart Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained RulerConclusionBibliographyIndex

H. Erdem Cipa's monograph provides a timely investigation of the reign of Sultan Selim I and its subsequent commemoration in Ottoman historiography, not least because this particular ruler remains an important figure in the still ongoing re-evaluation of Ottoman history in Turkey.(English Historical Review)

H. Erdem Cipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Yavuz'un Kavgası: I. Selim'in Saltanat Mücadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvacı) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.

• AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart One: The Making of a Sultan1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne2. Politics of FactionsPart Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite ImagePart Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained RulerConclusionBibliographyIndex

H. Erdem Cipa's monograph provides a timely investigation of the reign of Sultan Selim I and its subsequent commemoration in Ottoman historiography, not least because this particular ruler remains an important figure in the still ongoing re-evaluation of Ottoman history in Turkey.(English Historical Review)

H. Erdem Cipa is Assistant Professor of Ottoman History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Yavuz'un Kavgası: I. Selim'in Saltanat Mücadelesi and editor (with Emine Fetvacı) of Writing History at the Ottoman Court: Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future.

• AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart One: The Making of a Sultan1. Politics of Succession: Selim's Path to the Throne2. Politics of FactionsPart Two: The Creation of Selim's Composite ImagePart Two Introduction: A Historiographical Survey3. Selim, The Legitimate Ruler4. Selim, The Idealized Ruler5. Selim, The Divinely Ordained RulerConclusionBibliographyIndex

H. Erdem Cipa's monograph provides a timely investigation of the reign of Sultan Selim I and its subsequent commemoration in Ottoman historiography, not least because this particular ruler remains an important figure in the still ongoing re-evaluation of Ottoman history in Turkey.(English Historical Review)