Before the nation : Muslim-Christian coexistence and its destruction in late Ottoman Anatolia /

Before the nation : Muslim-Christian coexistence and its destruction in late Ottoman Anatolia /

"It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they had 'lived well with the Turks', and yea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doumanis, Nicholas, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Christianity and other religions > Islam > History.
Islam > Relations > Christianity > History.
Greeks > Turkey > History.
Turkey > Ethnic relations > History.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey > Social conditions > 1288-1918.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : intercommunality, everyday life, and social memory
  • Great curse of Babel : late Ottoman Anatolia
  • Ottoman belle époque, c.1890-1912 : intercommunality in practice
  • 'People of God' part I : the logics of popular orthodoxy
  • 'People of God' part II : accommodation, faith, and the supernatural
  • Catastrophes : nationalism and the war years (1908-22).