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

Author
Baer, Marc David, 1970-
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents
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, hunting, and conversion -- 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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ISBN
9780195331752 (cloth)
0195331753 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-318) and index.
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