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

Name: Contested Conversions to Islam Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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ISBN: 9780804793322

ISBN-10: 0804793328

ISBN-13: 9780804793322

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tijana KrstiÄ‡

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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…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English