Becoming Ottoman

Yavuz Köse is Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His recent titles include“Buyurdum ki….” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer (2023) and Seeds of Power. Explorations in the Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire (2019). Petr Kucera is Professor of Turkish Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He is the co-editor of Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures: From Epics to Novels (2023) and Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Studies in Honor of Orhan Pamuk (2022) and co-author with J. Malecková of From Istanbul to the End of the World: Ottoman Travel Writings from the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2019).Tobias Völker is PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has published several articles on the late Ottoman Empire in transcultural perspective.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroductionYavuz Köse, Petr Kucera, Tobias VölkerPART I: 16th–18th CENTURIES1. Becoming Ottoman in the Central European BorderlandsRobyn Dora Radway2. A Comparative Study of Renegades of German OriginJános Szabados3. “I was Honoured by the Glory of Islam”: The Conversion of a Dominican Friar in the Ottoman CapitalVanessa R. de Obaldía4. 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-betweenAgnieszka Aysen Kaim5. The Man Who Marked the End of an Era: Dimitrie Cantemir’s Story From Trusted Ottoman Ally to Traitorous RebelAlptug Güney6. 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 IstanbulPetr KuceraPART II: 19th CENTURY7. Traitor, Symbol, Modernizer: The Metamorphoses of the Renegade in 19th-Century HungaryHeléna Tóth8. The Conversion Case of the Political Agent Michal Czajkowski Aleksandar Zlatanov9. To Abandon One’s Homeland, Name and Religion: Germans Becoming Muslims in the Late Ottoman EmpireYavuz Köse10. Multiple Citizenship at Work – Aspects of Legal, Professional, and Intellectual Affiliation of Andreas David Mordtmann in the Late Ottoman Context Tobias Völker11 De-Ottomanization by Protestantization in the Long 19th Century?Mullah Mu?ammed Sükri Efendi Becomes Pastor Johannes AvetaranianGülfem AliciIndex

The approach adopted here is particularly compelling because it does not offer a broad, definitive overview; instead, it seeks to develop a history 'from below,' grounded in the study of particularly significant cases.