Honored by the Glory of Islam. Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe

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Honored by the Glory of Islam Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe marc david baer ...

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In memory of my grandparents, Max Braun, Bernice Wolf Braun, and Phyllis Manassee Baer, and to my grandfather, Harvey Baer ...

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Acknowledgments I have benefi ted from the assistance of many individuals who have taken an interest in my work. With the risk o ...

viii acknowledgments and who inspired me to pursue graduate studies in the subject. At the Univer- sity of Michigan, Fatma Müge ...

acknowledgments ix Dissidence in Muslim Communities,” at the University of California, Irvine, convened by Nayan Shah; and the q ...

x acknowledgments always challenging. This book is as much hers as mine, and whatever grace and intelligence it possesses is due ...

Contents Sacred Space, Introduction: Conversion of Self, Others, and 1 Inauspicious Enthronement, A Decade of Crisis, Enj ...

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Introduction Conversion of Self, Others, and Sacred Space The compound of the leading Muslim religious authority (mufti) of Ista ...

4 introduction The director and some of the Turkish researchers used a number of dif- ferent methods to try to convert me to Isl ...

introduction 5 Romans”), an area stretching from Istanbul to near Vienna in central Europe, Crete in the Mediterranean, and Podo ...

6 introduction Mehmed IV, Conversion, and War on the Path of God This book is a study of the religious transformation of people ...

introduction 7 convert makers, the piety of Muslims was connected in contemporary writers’ minds not only to conversion within I ...