Immigration, Return, and the Politics of Citizenship

Russian Muslims in the Ottoman Empire, 1860–1914

Bibliographic Data

ID8967409
AuthorsJan-Henrik Meyer (0000-0003-1159-4441, Brown University, corresponding author), James H Meyer
Year2007
Volume39
Issue1
Pages32a-32a
Publication date2007-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743807222512
OpenAlexW4251307191
LanguageEN
Citations received26

The immigration of Muslims into the Ottoman Empire, especially from Russia and the Balkans, is a feature of late imperial Ottoman history whose legacy remains strong to this day. Millions of individuals in present-day Turkey trace their roots back to the Balkans or Russia, and interest in these regions remains high in Turkey. Estimates of Muslim immigrants to the Ottoman Empire vary, although most sources place the total number of Muslims leaving Russia for the Ottoman Empire in the latter half of the 19th century and early 20th century at well over one million. As Russian Muslims in 1897 were considered to number nearly 20 million while Ottoman Muslims counted in the same year numbered 14.1 million, this population shift involved a significant proportion of the Muslim populations of both empires

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Citizenship · Economic history · Empire · Historiography · Immigration · Middle East · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Turkey's Politics and Society

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