Religious communities and modern statehood : the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world at the age of nationalism and colonialism / Michalis N. Michael, Tassos Anastassiadis, Chantal Verdeil (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michaēl, Michalēs N., editor.

Anastassiadis, Tassos, editor.

Verdeil, Chantal, 1970- editor.

Series:

Islamkundliche Untersuchungen ; 321

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious communities.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Congresses.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Klaus Schwarz Verlag, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Over the last thirty years, historiography has amply illustrated the ways in which modern statehood is linked to a specific form of governmentality characterized by increasing social penetration and control of peoples’ everyday daily lives. State tools included a variety of institutions, such as public education, mandatory military conscription, welfare and were served by complex bureaucratic organizations. As the Ottoman Empire was negotiating both its geopolitical survival and its own form of modern statehood, it tried to control the populations within its realm by instrumentalizing and simultaneously institutionalizing religious communities, thus producing an imperial state formation pattern that was both similar and distinct from other imperial or colonial projects. The existence of the religious communities and the functioning of the Ottoman state on their basis, made the passage from the Ottoman imperial structure to successor national and colonial states a complex process. This volume aims to explore various aspects of the communal organization in the Ottoman Empire for regions such as Asia Minor, Middle East and the Balkans, and to present the changes that occurred within the religious communities during the nineteenth century and particularly during the period running from the Tanzimat reforms to the First World War. Some of the key questions tackled in this volume are: How does the Sublime Porte understand the process of structuring a modern state with respect to religious communities? Who is responsible for modern institutions and why? Are religious actors being re-active or pro-active to the evolutions taking place on the state realm? Is the institutionalization of the religious communities best understood through a top-down institutional approach or thanks to a bottom-up analysis of the various agents’ strategies and interests? What is the legacy of the Ottoman debates and institutions once a territory has transformed into a national or colonial frame

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Millet, Ethnicity, Colonial Community Views of the Authoritarian Transition to Modernity, 19th–early 20th c.

Post-Colonial Criticism and Muslim-Christian Relations in the (very) Late Ottoman Empire: The Case of Smyrna/İzmir

Ottoman Reforms and Colonial Policies

From the Ottoman Meclis-i Idâre to the British Legislative Council

Non-Muslim Communities and State Control in the Late Ottoman Empire

Cypriots Transforming their Identity during the Early British Period

Modernity, Nationalism and Secularization: The Turkish Cypriot Case

Christians and Jews in the French Strategy for Ottoman Palestine

Missionary Presence, Diplomatic Rivalries and Proselytizing... among the Ottoman Empire’s Religious Communities

New Missions, New Education?

The Organization and Development of Greek Orthodox Education in Cyprus,1830–1878

School, Community, State

Comprehensive Bibliography

List of Authors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112209141

3112209141

OCLC:

1197550920