Orthodox Christians In The Late Ottoman Empire

Author : Ayse Ozil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135104030

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Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire by Ayse Ozil Pdf

Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of the Ottoman world. Despite this view prevailing in mainstream historiography, some scholars have suggested recently that non-Muslim life was not as monolithic and rigid as is often supposed. In an endeavour to understand the ties among Christians within the administrative, social and economic structures of the imperial and Orthodox Christian worlds, Ayşe Ozil engages in a rarely undertaken comparative analysis of Ottoman, Greek and European archival sources. Using the hitherto under-explored region of Hüdavendigar in the heartland of the empire as a case study, she questions commonplace assumptions about the meaning of ethno-religious community within a Middle Eastern imperial framework. Offering a more nuanced investigation of Ottoman Christians by connecting Ottoman and Greek history, which are often treated in isolation from one another, this work sheds new light on communal existence.

Author : Khalid S. Dinno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1463236921

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The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond by Khalid S. Dinno Pdf

Author : Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942699101

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Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831 by Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko Pdf

Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of significant minority religious groups within the predominantly Islamic Middle East. Of these minorities Christians are by far the largest, comprising over 10% of the population in Syria and as much as 40% in Lebanon.The largest single group of Christians are the Arabic-speaking Orthodox. This work fills a major lacuna in the scholarship of wider Christian history and more specifically that of lived religion within the Ottoman empire. Beginning with a survey of the Christian community during the first nine hundred years of Muslim rule, the author traces the evolution of Arab Orthodox Christian society from its roots in the Hellenistic culture of the Byzantine Empire to a distinctly Syro-Palestinian identity. There follows a detailed examination of this multi-faceted community, from the Ottoman conquest of Syria, Palestine and Egypt in 1516 to the Egyptian invasion of Syria in 1831. The author draws on archaeological evidence and previously unpublished primary sources uncovered in Russian archives and Middle Eastern monastic libraries to present a vivid and compelling account of this vital but little-known spiritual and political culture, situating it within a complex network of relations reaching throughout the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The work is made more accessible to a non-specialist reader by the addition of a glossary, whilst the scholar will benefit from a detailed bibliography of both primary and secondary sources. A foreword has been contributed to this first English language edition by the Patriarch of Antioch, John X. It contextualizes the history found in this work within the ongoing struggle to preserve the ancient Christian cultures of the Arabic speaking peoples from extinction within their ancestral homeland.

Author : Gülen Göktürk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000073553

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Well-Preserved Boundaries by Gülen Göktürk Pdf

Cappadocia was a place of co-habitation of Christians and Muslims, until the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange (1923) terminated the Christian presence in the region. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on history, political science and anthropology, this study investigates the relationship between tolerance, co-habitation, and nationalism. Concentrating particularly on Orthodox-Muslim and Orthodox-Protestant practices of living together in Cappadocia during the last fifty years of the Ottoman Empire, it responds to the prevailing romanticism about the Ottoman way of handling diversity. The study also analyses the transformation of the social identity of Cappadocian Orthodox Christians from Christians to Greeks, through various mechanisms including the endeavour of the elite to utilise education and the press, and through nationalist antagonism during the long war of 1912 to 1922.

Author : Ayse Ozil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415682633

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Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire by Ayse Ozil Pdf

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Author : Nicholas Doumanis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199547043

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Before the Nation by Nicholas Doumanis Pdf

'Before the Nation' argues that there is more than a grain of truth to nostalgic traditions following genocide. It points to the fact that intercommunality, a mode of everyday living based on the accommodation of cultural difference, was a normal and stabilizing feature of multi-ethnic societies.

Author : Khalid Dinno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1463205759

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Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond by Khalid Dinno Pdf

Author : Aude Aylin de Tapia
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004547704

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Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia by Aude Aylin de Tapia Pdf

This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.

Author : Benjamin Braude
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1588268659

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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire by Benjamin Braude Pdf

How did the vast Ottoman empire, stretching from the Balkans to the Sahara, endure for more than four centuries despite its great ethnic and religious diversity? The classic work on this plural society, the two-volume Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, offered seminal reinterpretations of the empire¿s core institutions and has sparked more than a generation of innovative work since it was first published in 1982. This new, abridged, and reorganized edition, with a substantial new introduction and bibliography covering issues and scholarship of the past thirty years, has been carefully designed to be accessible to a wider readership.

Author : Ronald Jennings
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814741818

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Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 1571-1640 by Ronald Jennings Pdf

Wrested from the rule of the Venetians, the island of Cyprus took on cultural shadings of enormous complexity as a new province of the Ottoman empire, involving the compulsory migration of hundreds of Muslim Turks to the island from the nearby Karamna province, the conversion of large numbers of native Greek Orthodox Christians to Islam, an abortive plan to settle Jews there, and the circumstances of islanders who had formerly been held by the venetians. Delving into contemporary archival records of the lte sixteenth and early seventeenth conturies, particularly judicial refisters, Professor Jennings uncovers the island society as seen through local law courts, public works, and charitable institutions. -- Publisher description.

Author : Merih Erol
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253018427

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Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul by Merih Erol Pdf

A study of the musical discourse among Ottoman Greek Orthodox Christians during a complicated time for them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the heart of which were debates about the place of traditional liturgical music in a community that was confronting modernity and westernization. Merih Erol draws on archival evidence from ecclesiastical and lay sources dealing with understandings of Byzantine music and history, forms of religious chanting, the life stories of individual cantors, and other popular and scholarly sources of the period. Audio examples keyed to the text are available online. “Merih Erol’s careful examination of the prominent church cantors of this period, their opinions on Byzantine, Ottoman and European musics as well as their relationship with both the Patriarchate and wealthy Greeks of Istanbul presents a detailed picture of a community trying to define their national identity during a transition. . . . Her study is unique and detailed, and her call to pluralism is timely.” —Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, author of The Musician Mehters “Overall, the book impresses me as a sophisticated work that avoids the standard nationalist views on the history of the Ottoman Greeks.” —Risto Pekka Pennanen, University of Tampere, Finland “This book is a great contribution to the fields of historical ethnomusicology, religious studies, ethnic studies, and Ottoman and Greek studies. It offers timely research during a critical period for ethnic minorities in the Middle East in general and Christians in particular as they undergo persecution and forced migration.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Author : Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521769372

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A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by Heather J. Sharkey Pdf

This book traces the history of conflict and contact between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East prior to 1914.

Author : Nomikos Michael Vaporis
Publisher : RSM Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0881411965

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Witnesses for Christ by Nomikos Michael Vaporis Pdf

"This, however, is not simply a collection of hagiographic stories. Here, the Lives are retold in a fluid, easy-to-read manner, and set in an historical context to make them more accessible to the reader. Also of great interest are the many translations of the dialogue between the Neomartyrs and the Ottoman judges (kadi), during the three interrogations that were mandated by Islamic law."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert Mihajlovski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004465268

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The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır by Robert Mihajlovski Pdf

In this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts.

Author : Constantine A. Panchenko
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781942699354

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Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East by Constantine A. Panchenko Pdf

"Panchenko has written a masterful, exhaustive study of the life of Arab Orthodox Christians..." -- John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Department of History, Balliol College, University of Oxford Conflict or concord? Histories of Islam from its early seventh century beginnings in Arabia often portray its explosive growth into the wider Middle East as a story of struggle and conquest of the Christian people of Greater Syria, Palestine and Egypt. Alternatively these histories suggest that as often as not the conquerors were welcomed by the conquered and their existing monotheistic faiths of Christianity and Judaism tolerated and even allowed to flourish. In this short but in depth survey of the almost nine centuries that passed from the beginning of the spread of Islam up to the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Syria and Egypt beginning in 1516, Constantin Panchenko offers a more complex portrayal that opens up fresh vistas of understanding of these centuries focusing on the impact that the coming of Islam had on the Orthodox Christian communities of the Middle East and in particular the interplay of their Greek cultural heritage and experience of increasing Arabization. This work is drawn from the author's much larger work, Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans, being an updated and expanded version of the first chapter of that book which set the historical context for the period after 1516. It will deepen the readers understanding both of the history of the Middle East in these centuries and of how the faith of Orthodox Christians in these lands is lived today.