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Author Baer, Marc David, 1970- author.

Title Honored by the glory of Islam : conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe / Marc David Baer
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book
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
Notes Originally published: 2008
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS Humanities, viewed September 30, 2016)
Subject Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693.
Mehmed IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1642-1693
Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe -- History
Muslim converts from Christianity
Turkey -- History -- Mehmed IV, 1648-1687.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Europe
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0198044178
9780198044178