An early 16th-century Ottoman sultan reshaped the empire by taking Medina, in Arabia, from Egyptian rule, and artwork at the Chehel Sotoun Pavilion in Isfahan, Iran, shows him at the Battle of Chaldiran against Shah Ismail of the Safavids. Taking Mecca and Medina made him and his heirs caliphs of the Muslim world. Which sultan was he?

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Selim I. Selim I extended Ottoman power to Medina and Mecca, making him and his successors the caliphs of the Muslim world. The Battle of Chaldiran, against Shah Ismail of the Safavids, is depicted at the Chehel Sotoun Pavilion in Isfahan.