Christians and Jews in the Ottoman empire / edited by Benjamin Br aude. - Abridged edition. - Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2013. - x, 374 p. ; 23 cm

"With a new introduction."

Includes bibliographical references(p. 347-353) and index.

Introduction / Benjamin Braude -- Transformation of Zimmi into Asker iii / Metin Kunt -- Foundation myths of the Millet system / Benjamin Br aude -- The rise of the Aremnian patriarchate of Constantinople / Kevor k B. Bardakjian -- Ottoman policy toward the Jews and Jewish attitudes -- Toward the Ottomans during the fifteenth century / Joseph R. Hacker -- The Greek Millet in the Ottoman Empire / Richard Clogg -- The dual r ole of the Armenian Amira class within the Ottoman government and the A rmenian Millet (1750-1850) / Hagop Barsoumian -- Foreign merchants and the minorities in Istanbul during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuri es / Robert Mantran -- The transformation of the economic position of t he Millets in the nineteenth century / Charles Issawi -- The Millets as agents of change in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire / Roderic H. Davison -- The acid test of Ottomanism: the acceptance of non-Muslims in the late Ottoman bureaucracy / Carter V. Findley -- Communal conflic t in Ottoman Syrian during the reform era: the role of political and ec onomic factors / Moshe Manoz -- Communal conflict in nineteenth-century Lebanon / Samir Khalaf -- Unionist relations with the Greek, Armenian, and Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914 / Feroz Ahmad -- The political situation of the copts, 1798-1923 / Doris Behrens-Abou seif.

9781588268655 (pb : alk. paper)

2013-030914


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