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

• Autore: Baer Marc David <1970->
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 332 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 297.5/74094
• Soggetto topico: Muslim converts from Christianity - Europe - History
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey History Mehmed IV, 1648-1687; Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Marc David Baer offers a new theoretical understanding of religious conversion grounded in a significant historical example - the reign of the sultan Mehmed IV (1648-87).
• Titolo autorizzato: Honored by the glory of Islam
• ISBN: 0-19-988717-9; 9786613164506; 1-4416-9714-4; 0-19-533175-3; 0-19-804417-8; 1-283-16450-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247994503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno