Contested conversions to Islam [electronic resource] : narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / Tijana Krstic.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.Description: xii, 264 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 297.5/740956 22
- BP170.5 .K77 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- 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.
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