Honored by the glory of Islam: conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe
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New York
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Oxford University Press
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c2008
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x, 332 p.: ill.; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]301[ - 318( and index
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Marc David Baer
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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، Mehmed, 2461 - 3961
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History ، Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe