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Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire
Selim Deringil
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Description for Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 302 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDT; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their ... Read more
In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107546011
SKU
V9781107546011
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Ref
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About Selim Deringil
Selim Deringil is Professor of History at Boğaziçi 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).
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