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The Washington Post on August 20, , carried an essay in its “Made by History” section entitled “The Ottoman sultan who changed America”, with the sensationalist claim in its subtitle “America, Protestantism and coffee all have a Muslim history”. The essay was written by a historian from Yale, Alan Mikhail, who has recently published a popular biography of the Ottoman Sultan Selim (r. ), entitled God’s Shadow. It was full of elementary errors of fact and logic, and major misinterpretations. However, the editor of the “Made by History” section of the Washington Post refused to publish a response to it on the grounds that “we are part of a news section and not in the opinion section.” The editor generously added: “if there is a specific factual error in the piece and you want to send specific details about that so we can amend (sic) a correction, we are happy to review that as we want all our pieces to be factually accurate”. In short, once a piece has been published, no rebuttals are possible, only “corrections” of fact. Here, we present our rebuttal to the original essay.
\n\nMikhail’s intention was apparently to persuade “Americans who don’t even know what the Ottoman Empire was”, that this empire was highly significant, and that its history is worthy of study. So
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Fake global history in the age of fake news
The Washington Post on August 20, , carried an essay in its “Made by History” section entitled “The Ottoman sultan who changed America”, with the sensationalist claim in its subtitle “America, Protestantism and coffee all have a Muslim history”. The essay was written by a historian from Yale, Alan Mikhail, who has recently published a popular biography of the Ottoman Sultan Selim (r. ), entitled God’s Shadow. It was full of elementary errors of fact and logic, and major misinterpretations. However, the editor of the “Made by History” section of the Washington Post refused to publish a response to it on the grounds that “we are part of a news section and not in the opinion section.” The editor generously added: “if there is a specific factual error in the piece and you want to send specific details about that so we can amend (sic) a correction, we are happy to review that as we want all our pieces to be factually accurate”. In short, once a piece has been published, no rebuttals are possible, only “corrections” of fact. Here, we present our rebuttal to the original essay.
Mikhail’s intention was apparently to persuade “Americans who don’t even know what the Ottoman Empire was”, that this empire was highly significant, and
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