Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism

Cambridge University Press, 2004,

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Author

Masters Bruce

Publishers

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Keyword

Turchia Turkey Turquie

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

As New

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

8vo, br. ed. explores the history of Christians and Jews in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman empire and how their identities as non-Muslims evolved over four hundred years. At the start of this period, in the sixteenth century, social community was circumscribed by religious identity and non-Muslims lived within the hierarchy established by Muslim law. In the nineteenth century, however, in response to Western influences, a radical change took place. Conflict erupted between Muslims and Christians in different parts of the empire in a challenge to that hierarchy. This marked the beginning, as the author illustrates, of the tensions which have to a large extent inspired the nationalist and religious rhetoric in the empire s successor states throughout the twentieth century. In this way, Masters negotiates the present through the past