Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire
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Recent papers in Conversion to Islam in the Ottoman Empire
“Documentary Records of Conversions among Ottoman Palace Personnel.” In Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook, edited by Nimrod Hurvitz, Christian C. Sahner, Uriel Simonsohn, and Luke Yarbrough, University of California... more
Özet Anadil olarak Slavca konuşan ve müslüman bir topluluk olan Pomakların kökeni günümüzde de akademik bir tartışma konusudur. Literatürde mevcut verilerle Pomakların tarihlerini 6’ncı yüzyıla kadar götürülebilen çalışmalar... more
Chapter Six (pp. 124-137) in The Hemshin, History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (London: Routledge, 2007).
يُعد كتاب "تواريخ آل عثمان" للصدر الأعظم لطفي باشا من أمهات كتب التاريخ العثماني في القرن 16 م، حيث إن مؤلفه كان شاهد عيان على أحداث عصره، وشارك في كثير من الوقائع في عصر السلطان سليمان القانوني، وشغل منصب الصدارة العظمي. وينقسم الكتاب... more
The paper studies in brief the phenomenon of the Neomartyrs, analyzing the attitudes of the Ottoman state toward cases of apostasy and blasphemy, and relating the phenomenon to the ideological and social currents of the era. Special... more
The Young Turk Revolution of 1908-1909 was a turning point that opened up new prospects for Ottoman society and politics. It created a milieu in which new ideas could be shared in a relatively open manner. The case of the Baha’is in... more
There is only very limited evidence for the life of the sixteenth century English renegade and eunuch slave, Hassan Agha, whose birth name was Samson Rowlie. Until now, he has been known from a single letter written in 1586, supplemented... more
In early modern period, bosnian conquest and islamization provoke several historiographical debates - deeply close to current social and political concerns - that this paper - stemed from two lectures made at University Paris 1... more
Geçtiğimiz yıllarda Türkiye' de, Soner Yalçın'ın Efendi: Beyaz Türklerin Büyük Sırrı veEfendi: Beyaz Müslümanların Büyük Sırrı adlı iki kitabının yüz binlerce kopyası satıldı. Kitapların ilki, yüzyılı aşkın süredir ülkenin gidişatına yön... more
While conducting my research concerning the change of religion of several hundred Christians and Jews to Islam in late seventeenth-century Istanbul, I became the unwilling target of fervent proselytization. As I have slowly realized, I... more
Chapter Four (pp. 52-99) in The Hemshin, History, Society and Identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey (London: Routledge, 2007).
"on: Pawel Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement 1755-1816 (Jewish Culture and contexts), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 376 pp. The article includes a review of developments in... more
Introduction, critical edition and commentary of one of the most important neomartyrological collections of the Ottoman period, written by one of the most distinguished scholars and prolific authors of that period, the monk Kaisarios... more
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.... more
BALKANLARDA İSLAM’IN VE TÜRKLÜĞÜN YAYILMASINDA BİR ÖNCÜ: SARI SALTUK Balkanlara İslam’ın gelişi ve yayılmasında en büyük etken Oğuz-Türkmen boylarının batıya doğru olan yolculuğudur. VII-VIII. yüzyılda Orhon ve Yenisey bölgesinde varlık... more
“Nathan of Gaza, A Letter on Conversion” in Pawel Maciejko ed. Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press, 2017), 39-45.... more
Suriye'deki görevi süresince Araplara ve Siyonist Yahudilere (bilhassa Filistin'deki) yönelik uyguladığı sert politikalarla bilinen Cemal Paşa'nın Ermeni soykırımındaki rolü her daim tartışma konusu olagelmiştir. Bilhassa son dönemde... more
Based on primary, predominantly German sources and secondary literature, I reconstruct in this contribution the policy of the C.U.P and Kemalist regimes as a late reaction to the phenomenon of numerous destitute orphans as a result of... more
"History and Identity among the Hemshin," in Richard G. Hovannisian, ed., Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities (UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, Vol. 8). Costa Mesa, CA:... more
The Islamisation of the population of two neighbouring regions south of Prizren, Gora and Opolje, occurred in varying degrees during the centuries-long rule of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. In Gora, inhabited by the Slavic... more
Were the Ottomans tolerant towards other faiths (especially towards the so called 'Peoples of the Book') during the reign of Sultan Sϋleyman the Lawgiver (r. 1520-1566)? This is a claim that many historians make and is based on formal and... more
Venice in Question è un seminario internazionale di ricerca sulla storia di Venezia e dei suoi domini. Si occupa di discutere progetti italiani e internazionali, di presentare nuove pubblicazioni e di confrontarsi con studiosi di materia... more
Jön Türk devrimi (1908–1909), Osmanlılar için toplumsal ve siyasi açından yeni beklentilere yol açan bir dönüm noktasıydı. Bu hareket, yeni fikirlerin, göreceli de olsa, serbestçe paylaşılabildiği bir ortam yaratmıştır. Dini cemaatler... more
This essay article gives an overview of the key texts and authors of the Greek prophetic literature during the 18th century. The works of Anastasios Gordios, Nektarios Terpos, Kosmas of Aitolia, Theoklytos Polyïdis, Nikolaos Zerzoulēs,... more
Throughout the nineteenth century several Western officers joined the Ottoman Army. Not a few adopted Ottoman citizenship, commanded troops, fought in major wars, and rose to the highest echelons of the military. For these men the Ottoman... more
The article deals with the question of communal and conceptual boundry crossing. We examine the phenomenon of conversion to Islam among Jewish women in this multiethnic, multiethnic, multilingual and multiculyural city of Thessaloniki.
Ovim radom analiziraju se bračne veze plemkinje Milice, kćeri Tvrtka Borovinića i Katarine, kćeri Balše Hercegovića iz kuće Hrvatinić, sklopljene sa predstavnicima uglednih rodova Humske zemlje, vlastelom Radivojevićima i Šimrakovićima.... more
Osmanlı Devleti'nin büyük bir kalabalığı teşkil etmeyen nüfusla Anadolu'nun kuzey batı uçlarında başlayan tarihsel serüveni her zaman tarih araştırmacılarının ilgisini çekmiştir. Altı asır gibi büyük bir zaman diliminde tarih... more