Ebook: Contested Conversions to Islam. Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Author: Tijana Krstić
- Tags: Muslim converts from Christianity -- Turkey -- History, Conversion -- Islam, Islam -- Relations -- Christianity, Christianity and other religions -- Islam, Islam and state -- Turkey -- History, Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire 1288-1918, RELIGION -- Islam -- General, Christianity, Interfaith relations, Islam, Islam and state, Muslim converts from Christianity, Turkey
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Redwood City, Calif.
- Language: English
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This work explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when the Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power and conversions to Islam peaked.