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The Sultan's Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610 Graf, Tobias P. (Research Associate in Early Modern History and Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context', Heidelberg University)
The Sultan's Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610
Graf, Tobias P. (Research Associate in Early Modern History and Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context', Heidelberg University)
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.
288 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 2, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198791430 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 286 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 243 × 23 mm · 596 g |
| Language | English |