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Contested Conversions to Islam : Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire.

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when the Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power and conversions to Islam peaked. Because the Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and extend...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krstic, Tijana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation; Introduction
  • Turning "Rumi": Conversion to Islam, Fashioning of the Ottoman Imperial Ideology, and Interconfessional Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean Context; Chapter One
  • Muslims through Narratives: Textual Repertoires of Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Islam and Formation of the Ottoman Interpretative Communities; Chapter Two
  • Toward an Ottoman Rumi Identity: The Polemical Arena of Syncretism and the Debate on the Place of Converts in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Polity.
  • Chapter Three
  • In Expectation of the Messiah: Interimperial Rivalry, Apocalypse, and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Muslim Polemical NarrativesChapter Four
  • Illuminated by the Light of Islam and the Glory of the Ottoman Sultanate: Self-Narratives of Conversion to Islam in the Age of Confessionalization; Chapter Five
  • Between the Turban and the Papal Tiara: Orthodox Christian Neomartyrs and Their Impresarios in the Age of Confessionalization.
  • Chapter Six
  • Everyday Communal Politics of Coexistence and Orthodox Christian Martyrdom: A Dialogue of Sources and Gender Regimes in the Age of ConfessionalizationConclusion
  • Conversion and Confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: Considerations for Future Research; Notes; Bibliography; Index.