Tijana Krstic
Central European University, Medieval Studies, Faculty Member
- Interconfessional Relations in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman-Venetian relations, Late Byzantine history, Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Historiography, Early Modern Era, and 20 moreOttoman-Habsburg relations, Ottoman Balkans, Religious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Moriscos, Mediterranean Studies, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Early Modern History, Ottoman History, Early modern Mediterranaean, Social History, Historiography, Legal History, Balkan History, Medieval Spain, Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Studies, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle Ages, and Catholic and Protestant Missionaries in the Ottoman Empireedit
Research Interests: Early Modern History, Religion and Politics, Eastern Christianity, Global History, Early modern Ottoman History, and 9 moreInterconfessional Relations in the Ottoman Empire, Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire, Middle Eastern Christianity, Confessionalization, Religious Studies, Early modern religion and culture, Shi'ite and Sunni Split, Muslim Attitudes Towards Non-Muslims, and Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia
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This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when the Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power and conversions to Islam peaked. Because... more
This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries, when the Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power and conversions to Islam peaked. Because the Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and extended greater opportunities to converts than to native-born Muslims, conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. By producing narratives about conversion, Ottoman Muslim and Christian authors sought to define the boundaries and membership of their communities while promoting their own religious and political agendas. Krstic argues that the production and circulation of narratives about conversion to Islam was central to the articulation of Ottoman imperial identity and Sunni Muslim "orthodoxy" in the long 16th century.
Placing the evolution of Ottoman attitudes toward conversion and converts in the broader context of Mediterranean-wide religious trends and the Ottoman rivalry with the Habsburgs and Safavids, Contested Conversions to Islam also introduces new sources, such as first-person conversion narratives and Orthodox Christian neomartyologies, to reveal the interplay of individual, (inter)communal, local, and imperial initiatives that influenced the process of conversion
Placing the evolution of Ottoman attitudes toward conversion and converts in the broader context of Mediterranean-wide religious trends and the Ottoman rivalry with the Habsburgs and Safavids, Contested Conversions to Islam also introduces new sources, such as first-person conversion narratives and Orthodox Christian neomartyologies, to reveal the interplay of individual, (inter)communal, local, and imperial initiatives that influenced the process of conversion
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Research Interests: Ottoman History, Early Modern History, Mediterranean Studies, Eastern Christianity, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, and 4 moreReligious Conversion and Converts in the Early Modern Mediterranean context, Republic of Letters (Early Modern History), Confessionalization, and Cultural history of Reformation and catholicism in the age of confessionalization
Research Interests: Reformation Studies, Eastern Christianity, Global History, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman-Safavid Relations, and 8 moreMiddle Eastern Christianity, Confessionalization, Early modern religious history, Ottoman Armenians, Sunni and shia, Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Muslim Attitudes Towards Non-Muslims, and Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia
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In 1604, a charismatic Sufi sheikh from Tunis commissioned the translation into Ottoman Turkish of Abdallāh b. Abdallāh al Tarjumān’s polemical text entitled Tuḥfat al-Adīb fī al-radd ʿalā ahl al-ṣalīb (1420), with the intention of... more
In 1604, a charismatic Sufi sheikh from Tunis commissioned the translation into Ottoman Turkish of Abdallāh b. Abdallāh al Tarjumān’s polemical text entitled Tuḥfat al-Adīb fī al-radd ʿalā ahl al-ṣalīb (1420), with the intention of presenting it to Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I. Soon after, this text became one of the most
widely known and disseminated anti-Christian polemical texts in the Islamic world, and by the late nineteenth century, in Europe as well. The article examines the circumstances of Tuḥfa’s translation from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish, the actors involved, the narrative’s trajectory from Tunis to Istanbul, its reception by the Ottoman reading public, as well as impact on the development of an Ottoman polemical genre of self-narrative of conversion to Islam. Transcription and translation of such an Ottoman narrative, which appears to have been directly influenced by Tuḥfa, is fea-
tured in the article’s appendix. By focusing on the trajectory of a single text belonging to the genre of religious polemics, the article bridges the traditionally disconnected academic discussions pertaining to the early modern Iberian, North African and Ottoman history and demonstrates their inherent connectivity in the age of confessional polarization (16th-17th centuries).
Key words : Polemics; conversion; narrative; intertextuality; Ottoman Empire; Tunis; Translation.
widely known and disseminated anti-Christian polemical texts in the Islamic world, and by the late nineteenth century, in Europe as well. The article examines the circumstances of Tuḥfa’s translation from Arabic into Ottoman Turkish, the actors involved, the narrative’s trajectory from Tunis to Istanbul, its reception by the Ottoman reading public, as well as impact on the development of an Ottoman polemical genre of self-narrative of conversion to Islam. Transcription and translation of such an Ottoman narrative, which appears to have been directly influenced by Tuḥfa, is fea-
tured in the article’s appendix. By focusing on the trajectory of a single text belonging to the genre of religious polemics, the article bridges the traditionally disconnected academic discussions pertaining to the early modern Iberian, North African and Ottoman history and demonstrates their inherent connectivity in the age of confessional polarization (16th-17th centuries).
Key words : Polemics; conversion; narrative; intertextuality; Ottoman Empire; Tunis; Translation.
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Introduction to special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History 19, 2-3 (2015), 93-105
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... A. HUSAIN AND KE FLEMING, EDS., A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200–1700 (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007). Pp. ... and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, David Abulafia, ed.,... more
... A. HUSAIN AND KE FLEMING, EDS., A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200–1700 (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007). Pp. ... and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, David Abulafia, ed., The Mediterranean in History, and WV ...
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ANTON MINKOV CONVERSION TO ISLAM IN THE BALKANS Kisve BahasÌ Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 ... The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage XXX BRILL ... THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE Politics, Society and Economy edited by... more
ANTON MINKOV CONVERSION TO ISLAM IN THE BALKANS Kisve BahasÌ Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670-1730 ... The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage XXX BRILL ... THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND ITS HERITAGE Politics, Society and Economy edited by Suraiya Faroqhi ...
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Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series: The Modern Muslim World. The series will provide a platform for scholarly research on Islamic and Muslim thought, emerging from any geographic... more
Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series: The Modern Muslim World. The series will provide a platform for scholarly research on Islamic and Muslim thought, emerging from any geographic area and dated to any period from the 17th century until the present day. Academics dealing with any aspect of the Muslim world, irrespective of their specialisations (history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, science, art, economics, etc.), are invited to contribute to the series.