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Ottoman sailors like Occhiali, Jack Ward, and Jan Janszoon are similar in being Westerners who joined Ottoman service and converted to Islam. What were attitudes to foreign adult converts who gained positions of power in the Empire?

by /u/an_ironic_username in /r/AskHistorians

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