Disliking others: loathing, hostility, and distrust in pre-modern Ottoman lands

Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called "Pax Ottomanica." This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive...

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Weitere Verfasser: Karateke, Hakan T. (HerausgeberIn), Çıpa, H. Erdem 1971- (HerausgeberIn), Anetshofer, Helga (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston Academic Studies Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Ottoman and Turkish Studies
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Zusammenfassung:Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called "Pax Ottomanica." This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears. The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:xv, 339 Seiten
ISBN:9781618118806

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