I’d recently read this book “In God’s Shadow” by Alan Mikhail which traces the timeline of the Ottoman Empire during a short period, 1450–1530, when the empire almost tripled in size because of the ambition and efforts of one man- Sultan Selim.
THE BOOK STARTS WITH Mehmet II taking Constantinople, the retaking of Granada by the Spanish queen Isabella’s forces from the Iberian Muslim king Boabdil in 1491…
