Contested conversions to Islam : narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire

General Information

Author/Creator
Krstić, Tijana, author.
Language
English.
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Physical Description
xii, 264 pages : map ; 24 cm

Subjects

Subject
Muslim converts from Christianity > Turkey > History.
Conversion > Islam.
Islam > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Islam.
Islam and state > Turkey > History.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
Tijana Krstic.
Content
Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.
ISBN
9780804773171

Holdings

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BookOSA Archivum LibraryGeneral collection297.5/740956 KRSGeneral Stacks-

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