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Honored by the glory of Islam : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David Baer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baer, Marc David, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.
- Mehmed.
- Muslim converts from Christianity--Europe--History.
- Muslim converts from Christianity.
- Turkey--History--Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
- Turkey.
- Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 332 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Marc David Baer offers a new theoretical understanding of religious conversion grounded in a significant historical example - the reign of the sultan Mehmed IV (1648-87).
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613164506
- 9780199887170
- 0199887179
- 9781441697141
- 1441697144
- 9780195331752
- 0195331753
- 9780198044178
- 0198044178
- 9781283164504
- 1283164507
- OCLC:
- 1336405752
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09273 hdl
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