Browsing by Subject "Orthodoxy"

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Antioch's Last Heirs: The Hatay Greek Orthodox Community between Greece, Syria and Turkey
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-10-01) Grigoriadis, Ioannis Ν.
This study explores the identity dynamics of the Arabic-speaking Greek Orthodox community of the Hatay province of Turkey. Citizens of Turkey, members of the Greek Orthodox church and Arabic speakers, members of this small but historic community stood at the crossroads of three nationalisms: Greek, Syrian and Turkish. Following the urbanization waves that swept through the Turkish countryside since the 1950s, thousands of Hatay Greek Orthodox moved to Istanbul and were given the chance to integrate with the Greek minority there. The case of the Hatay Greek Orthodox community points to the resilience of millet-based identities, more than a century after the demise of the Ottoman Empire. © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.
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The image of the other in the fifteenth-century Christian and Muslim hagiographies
(2008) Nazlar, Nergiz
In the thesis we have aimed to examine the image of the other in fifteenthcentury Ottoman history. With this aim in mind, we have carried out our research focusing on the analysis of the image of the other both within the population of Orthodox Christians under Ottoman rule, and also within Ottoman society. We have argued that hagiographies and menakıbnames can be utilized as reliable historical sources for cultural-historical research. With this view we have examined eight Orthodox Christian neo-martyr hagiographies and two Ottoman menakıbnames from the fifteenth century (more specifically those of Şeyh Bedreddin and Otman Baba), in addition to Byzantine and Ottoman chronicles of the period. Three fundamental tasks are established as the focus of the thesis: who the other is, how the other is perceived, and what this process of otherization reveals about the prejudices, preoccupations, and concerns of the authors in relation to the broader world. Our analysis of the image of the other in fifteenth century Ottoman history shows that although the hagiographical and menakıbname sources were written from a religious perspective, how the other was perceived in this period had much more to do with political than theological motivations. The socio-religious antagonisms witnessed in these texts should thus be seen a result of the underlying political antagonisms arising in the fifteenth century, both within the Orthodox Christian populations under Ottoman rule and among the Muslim Ottoman population, rather than being treated in isolation as a strictly religious affair.
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The implementation of Ottoman religious policies in Crete 1645-1735 : men of faith as actors in the kadı court
(2005) Bayraktar, Elif
The arrival of the Ottomans in the first half of the seventeenth century was marked by a twofold religious policy on the island: The reestablishment of the Orthodox hierarchy and the establishment of Islam. The reestablishment of the Orthodox hierarchy was in contrast with the religious policy of the previous Catholic Venetian rule. The relationship of the Ottomans with the Patriarchate in Istanbul, as affected by the Protestant and Catholic missionaries from Europe, was a determinant in what was happening in Crete at this period. The establishment of Islam on the other hand was mainly a result of conversions. The Ottomans endorsed the mystical religious orders on the island in this period. After an examination of these processes, this thesis investigates the involvement of the Christian and Muslim men of faith into the new system.