Christians & Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Volume 1: The Functioning of a Plural Society by Bernard Lewis, Benjamin Braude
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Overview: This book 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 empires successor states throughout the twentieth century.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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