Contested conversions to Islam : narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / Tijana Krstic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krstić, Tijana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim converts from Christianity--Turkey--History.

Muslim converts from Christianity.

Conversion--Islam.

Conversion.

Islam--Relations--Christianity.

Islam.

Christianity and other religions--Islam.

Christianity and other religions.

Islam and state--Turkey--History.

Islam and state.

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

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Tijana Krstić argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion to Islam was central to the articulation of Ottoman imperial identity and Sunni Muslim "orthodoxy" in the long 16th century. Placing the evolution of Ottoman attitudes toward conversion and converts in the broader context of Mediterranean-wide religious trends and the Ottoman rivalry with the Habsburgs and Safavids, Contested Conversions to Islam draws on a variety of sources, including first-person conversion narratives and Orthodox Christian neomartyologies, to reveal the interplay of individual, (inter)communal, local, and imperial initiatives that influenced the process of conversion.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777858

0804777853

OCLC:

727649241