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Author Baer, Marc David, 1970-

Title Honored by the glory of Islam [electronic resource] : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David Baer.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2011, c2008.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 332 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe -- History.
Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.
Turkey -- History -- Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780195331752 (DLC) 2007014740
Standard No. 2027/heb09273 hdl

 
    
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