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Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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The commonly accepted wisdom is that nationalism replaced religion
in the age of modernity. In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire,
the focus of Selim Deringil's book, 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, and as this engaging study illustrates
with examples from real-life cases, 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 denationalization. The book tells the story of
the struggle for the bodies and the souls of people, waged between
the Ottoman State, the Great Powers, and a multitude of evangelical
organizations. Many of the stories shed light on current
flash-points in the Arab world and the Balkans, offering
alternative perspectives on national and religious identity and the
interconnection between the two."
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