The Sultan's Renegades Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610 |
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Author:
| Graf, Tobias P. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-879143-0 |
Publication Date: | May 2017 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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 seventeenth century Ottoman Empire, when the Ottoman sultans posed a major political, military, and ideological challenge to Christian princes in Europe.
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 seventeenth century Ottoman Empire, when the Ottoman sultans posed a major political, military, and ideological challenge to Christian princes in Europe.