Contested conversions to Islam
Subtitle: narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire
By: Tijana Krstic
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780804773171
Subjects: Conversion; Muslim converts from Christianity; Relations; Christianity; Islam and state; Islam; Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [217-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context; title: Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities; title: Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity; title: In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives; title: Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization; title: Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization; title: Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization; title: Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.