Honored by the Glory of Islam

Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-979783-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

-A new theoretical understanding of religious conversion
-An argument based on an integrated reading of previously unexamined Ottoman texts
-An original picture of the significance of conversion in 17th century Ottoman Europe

Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for the best book in Middle East Studies (2008) and short-listed for the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion (2009).

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Islamic, European, and Middle Eastern history; scholars working on early modern Jewish studies or historical accounts of conversion; those interested in inter-religious relations, jihad, or relations between European states and the Ottoman Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baer, Marc David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Conversion of Self, Others, Sacred Space, and Conquest

1 Inauspicious Enthronement

2 A Decade of Crisis

3 Enjoing Good and Forbidding Wrong

4 Islamizing Istanbul

5 Conversion to Piety: Mehmed IV and Preacher Vani Mehmed Efendi

6 Converting the Jewish Prophet and Jewish Physicians

7 Conversion and Conquest: Ghazi Mehmed IV and Candia

8 Conversion and Conquest: Ghaza in Central and Eastern Europe

9 Hunting for Converts

10 The Failed Final Jihad

11 Mehmed IV's Life and Legacy, From Ghazi to Hunter

Conclusion: Islamic Rulers and the Process of Conversion

Postscript: Silences and Traces of the Past

Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Marc David Baer, Associate Professor of History, University of California-Irvine