Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia

Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside (1839-1923)
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54769-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies

This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Tapia, Aude Aylin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Maps

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Notes on Transliteration and Transcription

Introduction

1 Historicizing Communities and Intercommunal Relations

2 Language and Locality: Producers of Collectivities

3 Book Outline

4 A Note on Primary Sources

1 Regionality in the Time of Nationalization

1 Ottoman Reforms, Nationalisms, and Missionary Movements

2 The (Re-)Appearance of Cappadocia

2 Naming, Identifying, and Mapping Groups in Cappadocia

1 Genres of Taxonomic Grouping

2 Mapping Collectivities

3 Conception(s), Perception(s) and Experience(s) of Space

1 Conceived Space: Administering Locality

2 Residing in a Shared Space

3 Private, Communitarian, and Collective Spaces

4 Connected Worlds: Forging Ties between Home and Elsewhere

1 Migration Patterns

2 Socio-professional Background and Networks of Assistance

3 Everyday Life in a Village Experiencing Emigration

5 Real Estate and Natural Resources

1 Private Properties

2 Communal and Collective Lands

6 Economic and Professional Activities

1 Production and Consumption, Infrastructure, and Transportation

2 Commercial Exchange and Marketplaces

3 Professions, Pluriactivity, and Specialization

7 Religious Conversions and Inter-religious Marriages

1 Collective and Individual Conversions to Islam

2 Conversion to Christianity

3 Marriage: A Bridge between Communities?

4 Conversion and Converts in Strife

8 Shared Sacredness

1 Shared Sites of Worship (See Map 3)

2 The Time of Sharing

3 Shared Rites and Intercessions of the Other

Conclusion: Doing, Undoing, and Redoing Groups in the Ottoman Countryside

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Former and Current Names of Towns and Villages (Changing Names and Names with Various Versions) 287

Appendix 2: Biographies of Main Informants by Settlements of Origin

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aude Aylin de Tapia, PhD (2016), EHESS (Paris) & Bogaziçi University (Istanbul), is Professor of Turkish and Islamic studies at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She has published many works on the history and anthropology of the late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, including “Cappadocia's Ottoman-Greek-Orthodox Heritage: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Religious Heritage Complex”, in Cerezales & Isnart (eds.), The Religious Heritage Complex: Conservation, Objects and Habitus in Spiritual Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2020).