Honored by the Glory of Islam. Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
8 introduction music as a form of prayer and visiting the tombs of Sufi s to ask for intercession. Purifi cation requires an opp ...
introduction 9 presents the story of the conversion of Jewish palace physicians converted by the valide sultan Hatice Turhan. Sh ...
10 introduction Chapters 9 and 11 reexamine Mehmed IV’s devotion to hunting and the link between hunting and conversion, calling ...
introduction 11 defenders were offered the chance to convert to Islam and the besieging armies were depicted as being on a missi ...
12 introduction Halife served the sultan in one of the wards of the palace and wrote in the mid- 1 660s, when Mehmed IV fi rst e ...
introduction 13 Theorizing Religious Conversion: Connecting Conversion of Self, Others, and Sacred Space Although this book is b ...
14 introduction abandons, and the one he or she joins. Conversion here is begun by rituals of rejection and bridge burning, whic ...
introduction 15 individ ual’s studied refl ection of his or her relation to the divine or the transfor- mation of an individual ...
16 introduction of the most unsettling and destabilizing political events in the life of a society, affecting members of the pie ...
introduction 17 faith can be articulated and demonstrated. Either way, we witness the ultimate transformation of sacred space as ...
18 introduction the fact that it does not occur in a vacuum free of political framework or power relations. Religious conversion ...
introduction 19 entering fundamental debates concerning the reputation of Mehmed IV, the understanding and implementation of gha ...
20 introduction Meh med IV’s life is evidence that sultans could still matter and not be hidden in the palace like a pearl in an ...
introduction 21 were also commonly used to designate the soldiers who battled them for spir- itual and material rewards. Jihad w ...
22 introduction Christianity, into the main royal mosque of the city, and the construction of many sultanic and grand vizieral m ...
introduction 23 What makes this book different is that it does not seek to answer why Christians and Jews became Muslim, which i ...
24 introduction extension its head, the sultan—at the end of the nineteenth century as “the sick man of Europe” conceals a backg ...
1 Inauspicious Enthronement The Uprising against Sultan Ibrahim and Enthronement of Mehmed IV In the summer of 1648, the men of ...
26 honored by the glory of islam the Janissaries’ and sipahis’ oath of allegiance, demanding that they come to the palace for th ...
inauspicious enthronement 27 the redress of grievances, and the spot where the heads of decapitated rebels were displayed. Unsto ...
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