Seljuks on the Baltic: Polish-Lithuanian Muslims in the court of Süleyman the Magnificent
Summary: Normal.dotm 0 0 1 112 643 Georgetown University 5 1 789 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} How did one of Christendom’s largest legally protected, integrated Muslim communities present their history to the most powerful contemporary leader of the Islamic world, Süleyman the Magnificent? The Risâle-i Tatar-i Leh, was written in 1558 by three Polish-Lithuanian Muslims on hajj with the help of Ottoman ulema. The Risâle contains a rare hybrid Polish-Lithuanian Muslim/Ottoman courtly narrative addressing the problem of conflict between fellow-Muslims, Polish-Lithuanian Muslims as a branch of the greater Islamic ecumene, the legal status and social hierarchies of Muslims in an emerging early modern republic, and the role of the Ottoman Sultan as facilitator of the hajjand as the millenarian world-conqueror vis-à-vis Muslims living outside of the Islamic world. Michael Połczyński is a PhD candidate studying early modern Ottoman and European history at Georgetown University (see academia.edu) Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu) Paulina Dominik is a graduate of Oxford University and a fellow at the German Orient-Institut in Istanbul (see academia.edu) SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYDanecki, Janusz, “Literature of the Polish Tatars” in: Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna (ed.) 2001. Muslims in Poland and East Europe: widening the European discourse on Islam. [Warsaw: Zakład]Fleischer, Cornell. 1992 “The Lawgiver as Messiah: The Making of the Imperial Image in the Reign of Süleyman” in: Soliman le Magnifique et Son Temps, ed. G. Veinstein [Paris: La Documentation Française]Klein, Denise. 2012. The Crimean Khanate between East and West (15th-18th century). [Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz]Kopański, Ataullah Bogdan, “Muslim Communities of the European North-Eastern Frontiers: Islam in they Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in, Marcinkowski, Christoph [ed.] 2009. The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the age of globalization. [Zürich: Lit.]Muchliński, Antoni. 1858. Zdanie Sprawy o Tatarach Litewskich przez Jednego z Tych Tataròw Złożone Sułtanow Sulejmanowi w Roku 1558. [Vilnius: Teka Wileńska]The Battle of Orsha (1514), Hans Krell. A rare depiction of Lipka Tatars in a battle between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy. The turbaned figure is thought to be the commander
