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Alan Mikhail: How Sultan Selim's Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World
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Alan Mikhail: How Sultan Selim's Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern World

A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of the Middle East. In writing God's Shadow, he has drawn on Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and French sources. He lives in New York and New Haven, Connecticut.

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