Selim Deringil

Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781107004559
• ISBN-10: 1107004551
• Artikelnr.: 34752587

Autorenporträt

Selim Deringil is Professor of History at Böaziçi 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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.