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, Ay e Ozil engages in a rarely
undertaken comparative analysis of Ottoman, Greek and European
archival sources. Using the hitherto under-explored region of H
davendigar 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.
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