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The sultan's renegades : Christian-European converts to Islam and the making of the Ottoman elite, 1575-1610 /

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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. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graf, Tobias P. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Muslim converts from Christianity > Turkey > History.
Muslim converts from Judaism > Turkey > History.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Empire ottoman > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Muslim converts from Christianity
Muslim converts from Judaism
Turkey
1288-1918
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Elite of Converts
  • 2. 'Turning Turk', Becoming an Ottoman Muslim
  • 3. A Change of Heart or a Change of Hat?
  • 4. In the Sultan's Service
  • 5. Mobilizing Trans-Imperial Ties
  • Conclusion.