Ebook: The sultan’s renegades : Christian-European converts to Islam and the making of the Ottoman elite, 1575-1610
Author: Graf Tobias P
- Tags: Muslim converts from Christianity, Turkey, History, Muslim converts from Judaism, Turkey, History, Turkey, History, Ottoman Empire 1288-1918, Christ, Elite, Islam, Janitscharen, Knabenlese, Konversion, Konvertit, Oberschicht, Osmanisches Reich, Muslim converts from Christianity, Muslim converts from Judaism, Turkey
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Oxford
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. 'The sultan's renegades' inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus onRead more...
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Examines why the figure of the renegade-a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan-is omnipresent in writings on the fifteenth to seventeenthRead more...
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