| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 -- Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter -- Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion -- Postscript: silences and traces of the past |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.
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Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693. |
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Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe -- History
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Muslim converts from Christianity.
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Turkey -- History -- Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
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Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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Europe.
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Turkey.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0195331753 |
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9780195331752 |
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1441697144 |
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9781441697141 |
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9780199868018 |
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0199868018 |
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