04735nam 2200733 a 450 991082171130332120240410003943.00-511-04797-50-511-15368-60-511-01781-2(CKB)111087027189892(EBL)202045(OCoLC)179140115(SSID)ssj0000121909(PQKBManifestationID)11922700(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121909(PQKBWorkID)10110348(PQKB)10647250(MiAaPQ)EBC202045(Au-PeEL)EBL202045(CaPaEBR)ebr5002288(EXLCZ)9911108702718989220001129d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChristians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world[electronic resource] the roots of sectarianism /Bruce Masters1st ed.New York Cambridge University Press20011 online resource (240 p.)Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationDescription based upon print version of record.0-521-80333-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-217) and index.""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on transliteration and terms""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 The limits of tolerance: the social status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Arab lands""; ""The roots of difference: ahl al-dhimma""; ""Ambiguities of inter-confessional relations in Ottoman society""; ""Christians and Jews in a Muslim world: the record of the qadi courts and the central state archives""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Ottoman Arab world: a diversity of sects and peoples""""The sectarian landscape of the Ottoman Arab lands""""How many?""; ""Ta'ifa or millet?""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 3 Merchants and missionaries in the seventeenth century: the West intrudes""; ""Trade and the creation of a Christian bourgeoisie""; ""Between Constantinople and Rome: the emergence of a Catholic Arab people""; ""The traditionalist ""counter-reformation''""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 4 New opportunities and challenges in the ""long'' eighteenth century""; ""Millet wars: from repression to establishment""; ""The Melkite Catholic millet""""Becoming Catholic, remaining Syrian: the case of Hindiyya Ujaymi""""The ubiquitous Catholic merchant""; ""The changing fortunes of the region's Jewish merchants and the beginning of sectarian dissonance""; ""Finding allies in the long eighteenth century""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER 5 Intercommunal dissonance in the nineteenth century""; ""The Tanzimat and the attempt to create a civic ""Ottomanism'' (Osmanlilik)""; ""Merchants, revisited""; ""Missionaries and teachers: ""a light unto the East''""; ""Muslim reaction: a tale of two cities""; ""Conclusion""""CHAPTER 6 After the ""events'': the search for community in the twilight of empire""""Ottomanism and Arabism""; ""Becoming Ottoman in Aleppo""; ""Conclusion""; ""CONCLUSION The changing boundaries of political community in the Ottoman Arab world""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Primary sources""; ""Achives""; ""Published""; ""Unpublished""; ""Secondary sources""; ""Published""; ""Unpublished""; ""Index""Masters explores the evolution of Christian and Jewish communities in the Ottoman empire over four hundred years. Early communities lived with the hierarchy of Muslim law, but the nineteenth century marked the beginning of tensions between Muslims and Christians and the twentieth-century rhetoric of religious fundamentalism.Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.ChristiansArab countriesHistoryJewsArab countriesHistoryIslamRelationsChristianityChristianity and other religionsIslamIslamRelationsJudaismJudaismRelationsIslamTurkeyHistoryOttoman Empire, 1288-1918ChristiansHistory.JewsHistory.IslamRelationsChristianity.Christianity and other religionsIslam.IslamRelationsJudaism.JudaismRelationsIslam.305.6/09569Masters Bruce Alan1950-645227MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821711303321Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world3975451UNINA