The sultan's renegades : Christian-European converts to Islam and the making of the Ottoman elite, 1575-1610 / Tobias P. Graf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graf, Tobias P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim converts from Christianity--Turkey--History.

Muslim converts from Christianity.

Muslim converts from Judaism--Turkey--History.

Muslim converts from Judaism.

History.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. 'The sultan's renegades' inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus on their exceptionality, towards a qualified appreciation of their place in the Ottoman imperial enterprise and the Empire's relations with its neighbors in Christian Europe. Drawing heavily on Central European sources, this study highlights the deep political, religious, and cultural entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe beyond the Mediterranean Basin as the 'shared world' par excellence.

Contents:

1 An Elite of Converts 29

2 'Turning Turk', Becoming an Ottoman Muslim 59

3 A Change of Heart or a Change of Hat? 89

4 In the Sultan's Service 118

5 Mobilizing Trans-Imperial Ties 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-244) and index.

ISBN:

9780198791430

0198791437

OCLC:

957546351