Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire

A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia

Bibliographic Data

ID19920342
AuthorsAyşe Ozil (0000-0003-2082-7964, Princeton University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages186
Publication date2013-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOrthodox Christians in the late Ottoman Empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203073551
OpenAlexW4243568403
Open LibraryOL25393631M
ISBN9780203073551
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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

Ancient history · Art · Empire · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Law · Ottoman Empire History and Society · 1288-1918 · 19th century · Christianity · Christians · Orthodox · Orthodox Eastern Church · Religion · Turkey

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