The nearest Janissary, other officer or close relative frags him 30 seconds later.What if the Sultan of Rum, may it be Suleyman or his son Kilji Arslan I, converts to Orthodoxy in order to legitimize his rule amongst the populace, and later form a culturally Turkish Orthodox church? (Anatolia will still become Turkish, and Beys/other feudal titles remain Turkish)
The nearest Janissary, other officer or close relative frags him 30 seconds later.
You do NOT convert away from Islam. It's totally anathema.
What if the Sultan of Rum, may it be Suleyman or his son Kilji Arslan I, converts to Orthodoxy in order to legitimize his rule amongst the populace, and later form a culturally Turkish Orthodox church? (Anatolia will still become Turkish, and Beys/other feudal titles remain Turkish)
I don't know which part of your post is more ignorant, the part where you seem not to understand that the Janissaries were an Ottoman creation, centuries after the time of Kilij Arslan, or the time when you make an absolute statement about one of the world's largest religions. There have been in fact high-profile converts from Islam including Akbar the Great, perhaps the most famous of Mughal Sultans and although the move wasn't especially popular, nor was his head cut off by angry Muslims bearing curvy swords.The nearest Janissary, other officer or close relative frags him 30 seconds later.
You do NOT convert away from Islam. It's totally anathema.
One reason why a lot of people don't like Islam.
The nearest Janissary, other officer or close relative frags him 30 seconds later.
You do NOT convert away from Islam. It's totally anathema.
This can be contrasted to all the examples of Christian crusaders converting to Islam.
Wait a minute...
No it wasn't. By WWI the Ottomans still had an Orthodox population of over ten percent, split between Greeks and Armenians. The conversion and Turkification was gradual, and only completed through multiple rounds of genocide and population exchange. When the Seljuks are around, Anatolia is predominantly Greek.Though I have to agree with Cuāuhtemōc here. Anatolia was relatively quickly Turkified, especially in comparison to the later conquests in the Balkans of the Ottoman Turks. I don't see it as being all too likely that a Sultan of Rum would convert to Christianity from Islam. If you wanted a culturally Turkish Orthodox Church, your best chance is probably with a beylik after the collapse of Rum.