Book Details
Orange Code:92063
Paperback:230 pages
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1. The limits of tolerance: the social status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Arab lands2. The Ottoman Arab world: a diversity of sects and peoples3. Merchants and missionaries in the seventeenth century: the West intrudes4. New opportunities and challenges in the ``long'' eighteenth century5. Intercommunal dissonance in the nineteenth century6. After the ``events'': the search for community in the twilight of empire
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Masters explores the history of Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire and how their identities evolved over four hundred years. While early communities lived within the hierarchy of Muslim law, the nineteenth century witnessed radical change. In response to Western influences, conflict erupted between Muslims and Christians across the empire. This marked the beginning of tensions that informed the rhetoric of religious fundamentalism in the empire's successor states throughout the twentieth century. Thus Masters negotiates the present through the past, contributing to our understanding of the contemporary Muslim world.
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