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Honored by the glory of Islam : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David Baer.

By: Baer, Marc David, 1970-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: x, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195331753 (hardback); 9780195331752 (hardback)Subject(s): Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693 | Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe -- History | Turkey -- History -- Mehmed IV, 1648-1687 | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918LOC classification: BP170.5 | .B34 2008
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, hunting, and conversion -- Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter -- Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion -- Postscript: silences and traces of the past.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 62 - Reading Room 		H2n BAER 26322 Not for loan BOOKS-000000026135

Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.

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, hunting, and conversion -- Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter -- Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion -- Postscript: silences and traces of the past.