Conversion and Jewish Histories of the Ottoman Empire | Marc Baer

E503 | In this first part of a two-part interview, we talk to Marc Baer about how he first became interested in Ottoman history and explore the main themes and the questions underpinning the research in his five books. In this conversation, we place special focus on the books Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe and The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Our discussion centers on approaches to the subject of conversion in the Ottoman Empire and the history of the dönme community born out of the transformations of the 17th century. More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html Marc David Baer is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include religious conversion, gender and sexuality, and interreligious relations and state violence in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, Turkey, and Germany. Zeinab Azarbadegan is the post-doctoral fellow at the Vienna School of International Studies. She completed her PhD at Columbia University. Her research focuses on imperial knowledge production about the space of Ottoman Iraq by the Ottomans, the Qajars, and the British in the late nineteenth century. CREDITS Episode No. 503 Release Date: 18 June 2021 Audio editing by Zeinab Azarbadegan Music: Special thanks to Monsieur Doumani for permission to use the composition "The System/Το σύστημαν", Isaac Algazi - Avinou Malkenou, Isaac Algazi - Ana Ke Av Zedoni Images and bibliography courtesy of Marc Baer available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/06/baer1.html