Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands

Disliking Others: Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands - Ottoman and Turkish Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called "Pax Ottomanica." This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions. The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears. The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception.

Book information

ISBN: 9781618118806
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.009560903
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xv, 339
Weight: 698g
Height: 215mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 27mm