Honored by the glory of Islam
Subtitle: conversion and conquest in Ottoman Europe
By: Marc David Baer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780195331752
Subjects: Mehmed -- IV, -- Sultan of the Turks, -- 1642-1693; Mehmed -- IV, -- sultan ottoman, -- 1642-1693; Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe -- History; Turkey -- History -- Mehmed IV, 1648-1687; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: conversion of self, others, and sacred space; title: Inauspicious enthronement; title: A decade of crisis; title: Enjoying good and forbidding wrong; title: Islamizing Istanbul; title: Conversion to piety, Mehmed iv and preacher Vani Mehmed Efendi; title: Converting the Jewish prophet and Jewish physicians; title: Conversion and conquest: Ghazi Mehmed iv and Candia; title: Conversion and conquest: ghaza in Central and Eastern Europe; title: Hunting for converts; title: The failed final jihad; title: Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter; title: Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion; title: Postscript: silences and traces of the past