Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire /

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Main Author: Krstić, Tijana
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context
  • Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities
  • Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity
  • In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives
  • Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization
  • Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization
  • Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization
  • Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.