Tobias P Graf: 1 book
The Sultan's Renegades
Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
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 disproportionately...
