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
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Book | OSA Archivum Library | General collection | 297.5/740956 KRS | | General Stacks | - |
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