Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Informationen zum Autor Selim Deringil is Professor of History at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909 (1999). Klappentext This book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and belonging played out in a multi-religious setting during the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Zusammenfassung Set in the declining years of the Ottoman Empire! this book examines how issues of nationalism! national identity and processes of belonging played out in a multi-religious setting! when religious conversion was no longer the answer to political or personal survival. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. 'Avoiding the imperial headache': conversion, apostasy and the Tanzimat state; 2. Conversion as diplomatic crisis; 3. 'Crypto-christianity'; 4. Career converts, migrant souls, and Ottoman citizenship; 5. Conversion as survival: mass conversions of Armenians in Anatolia, 1895-7; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Selim Deringil, Selim (Bogazici Ueniversitesi Deringil, Deringil Selim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107004559
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00455-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Islam, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / History, Nationalism, Middle East, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Middle Eastern history