Hakan-ı Rum or Yavuz Sultan Selim: throne of Joseph or universal Islamic caliphate? Some observations on changing Ottoman Turkish perceptions of the conquest of the Mamluk lands from 1520 to 1920

This article discusses the impact of changing understandings of the Battles of Marj Dabiq and Ridaniya as well as the incorporation of Bilad al-Sham, Egypt, and the Two Sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina into the Ottoman Empire on Ottoman-Turkish historical consciousness from the Ottoman Classical Age to the Young Turk Era. Here chronicles from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries as well as printed textbooks and popular historical works from the late nineteenth- and twentieth centuries have been examined and analyzed.