The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam by Christopher Markiewicz

The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam\n\nPersian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty\n\nExplores how a new conception of kingship helped transform the Ottoman Empire, from regional dynastic sultanate to global empire.\n\nChristopher Markiewicz (Author)\n\n9781108492140 (SKU 3292166), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 22 August 2019\n\n364 pages\n23.5 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.69 kg\n\n'Markiewicz's reworking of his PhD thesis has produced a book that is complex in its ideas and argument, beautifully structured, written in clear and well-signposted prose, and cleanly produced in the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization series.' Amy Singer, Speculum\n\nIn the early sixteenth century, the political landscape of West Asia was completely transformed: of the previous four major powers, only one - the Ottoman Empire - continued to exist. Ottoman survival was, in part, predicated on transition to a new mode of kingship, enabling its transformation from regiona]