Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire
In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire 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 th...
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Cambridge, UK
Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. "Avoiding the imperial headache": conversion, apostasy and the Tanzimat state
- 2. Conversion as diplomatic crisis
- 3. "Crypto-christianity"
- 4. Career converts, migrant souls, and Ottoman citizenship
- 5. Conversion as survival: mass conversions of Armenians in Anatolia, 1895-1897
- Conclusion.