Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
ISBN:
9780804777858
Content:
This book explores the role of conversion to Islam in the emergence of the Ottoman Empire, its imperial ideology and Sunni identity, and its relationship with its Muslim and non-Muslim subjects, in the context of the early modern Mediterranean.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 Narratives -- Chapter 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 Confessionalization -- Conclusion - Conversion and Confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: Considerations for Future Research -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804773171
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804773171
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=692446
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