Honored by the glory of Islam : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe /

Baer, Marc David, 1970-

Honored by the glory of Islam : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David Baer. - x, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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.

0195331753 (hardback) 9780195331752 (hardback)


Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.


Muslim converts from Christianity--History.--Europe


Turkey--History--Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

BP170.5 / .B34 2008