Contested Conversions to Islam : Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Tijana Krstic

ISBN 10: 0804793328 / ISBN 13: 9780804793322

Edité par Stanford University Press Jul 2014, 2014

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Neuware - This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Tijana Krsti¿ argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion to Islam was central to the articulation of Ottoman imperial identity and Sunni Muslim 'orthodoxy' in the long 16th century.

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• Titre: Contested Conversions to Islam : Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
• Éditeur: Stanford University Press Jul 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0804793328
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780804793322
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 233 L x 154 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 233 millimètres de largeur par 154 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 385 grammes

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Synopsis

This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Tijana Krstic argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion to Islam was central to the articulation of Ottoman imperial identity and Sunni Muslim "orthodoxy" in the long 16th century.

Placing the evolution of Ottoman attitudes toward conversion and converts in the broader context of Mediterranean-wide religious trends and the Ottoman rivalry with the Habsburgs and Safavids, Contested Conversions to Islam draws on a variety of sources, including first-person conversion narratives and Orthodox Christian neomartyologies, to reveal the interplay of individual, (inter)communal, local, and imperial initiatives that influenced the process of conversion.

À propos de l?auteur

Tijana Krstic is Associate Professor in the Medieval Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest.