Living in the Ottoman Realm. Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th Centuries

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LIVING in the OTTOMAN REALM Empire and Identity, th to th Centuries Edited by Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull In ...

This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th ...

To the cherished memory of our dear friend, colleague, and contributor to this volume Vangelis Kechriotis ...

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Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xv Introduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman ...

viii | Contents 9 Making Jerusalem Ottoman Amy Singer 123 10 Ibrahim ibn Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Earl ...

Contents|ix 21 A Cappadocian in Athens, an Athenian in Smyrna, and a Parliamentarian in Istanbul: The Multiple Personae and Loya ...

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xi This volume was conceptualized in 2007 at a Middle East Studies Association (MESA) book fair in Montreal. We had just met and ...

xii|Preface From that workshop within a conference we have pursued this edited vol- ume, and though not all of the original part ...

xiii Acknowledgments The editors thank the many individuals who have worked so hard to see this project to its conclusion. It or ...

xiv|Acknowledgments include Rebecca Tolen and Mollie Ables, as well as the copy editors and others involved in this book’s produ ...

xv We have used a modified system of transliterating Ottoman Turkish and Ara- bic proper names and terms suggested by the Intern ...

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Introduction Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull The Ottomans established on ...

2 | Living in the Ottoman Realm dismemberment as a result of European imperialism, internal strife, and World War I. We focus in ...

Introduction| past societies. To uncritically impose these identities on past peoples and socie- ties distorts how people identi ...