Full Description
This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed "Ottoman identity", be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilating to the host society or by becoming loyal servants or subjects of the Ottoman state, identifying themselves as Ottomans, but retaining their faith. Bringing together a variety of case studies that reflect a broad range of individual experiences in changing historical circumstances, the book provides a detailed study of the process of Ottomanization. The book draws upon a variety of archival and other sources such as travelogues, diaries and folk epics, including lesser known examples, from early-modern Czech, Venetian and Wallachian views of converts, to case studies of 19th century British, German and Austrians who switched loyalty. They show that this process depended on a range of factors, from conversion, to integration into the culture of the ruling elites, fluency in the language, affiliation through family ties or marriage, and, most importantly, social status and professional rank.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Yavuz Köse, Petr Kucera, Tobias Völker
PART I: 16th-18th CENTURIES
1. Becoming Ottoman in the Central European Borderlands
Robyn Dora Radway
2. A Comparative Study of Renegades of German Origin
János Szabados
3. "I was Honoured by the Glory of Islam": The Conversion of a Dominican Friar in the Ottoman Capital
Vanessa R. de Obaldía
4. In Search of a Polish Layer Under the Ottoman Identity of Albert Bobowski Alias Ali Ufkî. From Being a "Polish captive" to Becoming an In-between
Agnieszka Aysen Kaim
5. The Man Who Marked the End of an Era: Dimitrie Cantemir's Story From Trusted Ottoman Ally to Traitorous Rebel
Alptug Güney
6. Tempted by the "Turkish religion": Renegades, Converts and Turks in the Account of a Late 16th-Century Czech Protestant Member of the Habsburg Embassy in Istanbul
Petr Kucera
PART II: 19th CENTURY
7. Traitor, Symbol, Modernizer: The Metamorphoses of the Renegade in 19th-Century Hungary
Heléna Tóth
8. The Conversion Case of the Political Agent Michal Czajkowski
Aleksandar Zlatanov
9. To Abandon One's Homeland, Name and Religion: Germans Becoming Muslims in the Late Ottoman Empire
Yavuz Köse
10. Multiple Citizenship at Work - Aspects of Legal, Professional, and Intellectual Affiliation of Andreas David Mordtmann in the Late Ottoman Context
Tobias Völker
11 De-Ottomanization by Protestantization in the Long 19th Century?
Mullah Mu?ammed Sükri Efendi Becomes Pastor Johannes Avetaranian
Gülfem Alici
Index
