The rise of the Western Armenian diaspora in the early modern Ottoman Empire : from refugee crisis to renaissance / Henry R. Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Henry R., author.

Series:

Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation.

Non-Muslim contributions to Islamic civilisation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenians--Turkey--History--17th century.

Armenians.

Armenians--Turkey--Social conditions--17th century.

Refugees--Turkey--History--17th century.

Refugees.

Turkey--Emigration and immigration--History--17th century.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Explores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

A Note on Transliteration, Abbreviation and Translation

Acknowledgements

Part I. Migration And Refugee Crisis

1. Armenians and the ‘Seventeenth-century Crisis’ in the Ottoman Empire

2. Kemah and the ‘Great Armenian Flight’

3. An Armenian Refugee Crisis in Ottoman Rodosto (Tekirdağ)

Part II. Integration And Renaissance

4. Grigor Daranaḷts‘i and the Crisis of Leadership and Infrastructure in the Early Seventeenth-century Western Armenian Diaspora

5. Eremia K‘eōmurchean and the Foundation of the Western Armenian Intellectual Tradition in Ottoman Istanbul

6. Eremia K‘eōmurchean and the Establishment of an Armeno- Turkish Translation Movement in Ottoman Istanbul

Conclusions: Legacies of the Great Armenian Flight

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2024).

ISBN:

1-4744-7962-6

OCLC:

1312727307