Honored by the glory of Islam: conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe
Marc David Baer
Honored by the glory of Islam: conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe
Author
Marc David BaerPublisher
Oxford University PressEdition 1
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Honored by the glory of Islam: conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David BaerPublication Details
نیویورک : Oxford University Press، 2008مPhysical Description
x, 332 p.: ill.; 25 cm.Subject
Mehmed, 1642 - 1693Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe History
Turkey History -- Mehmed IV, 1648 - 1687
Turkey History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288 - 1918
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انگلیسیNotes
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]103[ - 813( and index.Contents
Introduction: conversion of self, others, and sacred space -- Inauspicious enthronement -- A decade of crisis -- Enjoying good and forbidding wrong -- Islamizing Istanbul -- Conversion to piety, Mehmed iv and preacher Vani Mehmed Efendi -- Converting the Jewish prophet and Jewish physicians -- Conversion and conquest: Ghazi Mehmed iv and Candia -- Conversion and conquest: ghaza in Central and Eastern Europe -- Hunting for converts -- The failed final jihad -- Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter -- Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion -- Postscript: silences and traces of the past