Christians in a changing world

Masters, Bruce; Faroqhi, Suraiya

doi:10.1017/chol9780521620956.014

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“…A handful of plates picturing Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empirethe slave élite of men and women from non-Muslim backgrounds, trained in the military corps of the Janissaries and inside the harem as concubineswere particularly meaningful for Venetian artists (Peirce, 1993;Pedani, 2010;Masters, 2016). Nicolay relied on two contemporary authors claiming a direct experience of the inner workings of the Ottoman court owing to their upbringing as Christian slaves in the Serail.…”

Section: Contact Zones and Christian Minoritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The World in Dress

Calvi

2022

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In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads of early anthropology, geography, and travel literature, this textual and visual production blurred the lines between art and science. Costume books and albums were not a unique European production: in the Ottoman Empire and the Far East artists and geographers also pictured the dress of men and women of their own and faraway lands hybridizing the Renaissance western tradition. Acknowledging this circulation of knowledge and people through migration, travel, missionary and diplomatic encounters, this Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective.

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Section: Contact Zones and Christian Minoritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The World in Dress

Calvi

2022

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“…7 For discussions of the millet system and its evolution from religious to ethnic and bloodbased belonging, see Braude 2000;Masters 2006;and Fortna et al 2013. For the parallel trajectory of religious and ethnic belonging of Muslims in the Slavophone Balkans, see Greble 2021.…”

Section: University Of Michigan Princeton Universitymentioning

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Borders, Belonging, and Refugee Memory since the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange

Stroebel¹,

Gedgaudaitė²

2022

Journal of Modern Greek Studies

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What cultural, historical, institutional, and legal paradigms have the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange bequeathed to national and transnational practices of border-making, border-crossing, and heritage-claiming over the past century, and how have subsequent experiences reshaped the original paradigm? We approach this question through four distinct categories: namely, the historical trajectory of refugee identity and its different political and cultural legacies in Greece and Turkey; the racialization of religion, which has helped to rewrite the boundaries of citizenship and belonging over the past century; the paradigm of peacekeeping by partition that the Population Exchange handed down to the international diplomatic norms of subsequent decades, along with the widespread regime of unseeing on which it depends; and, finally, memory practices that establish templates for remembering refugee pasts as well as making sense of contemporary crises.

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“…12–13). This categorisation of society into recognised religious communities afforded a measure of autonomy over communal affairs within the limits of the socio‐political hierarchy (Masters, 2006, pp. 273–275).…”

Section: Minority‐ness and The Politics Of Belonging Under Empirementioning

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Minorities or citizens in the Middle East? Locating the ‘minority question’ in the intersecting histories of collective national belonging and state‐building

Monier¹

2022

Nations and Nationalism

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This article contributes to the growing scholarship on minority politics in the Middle East by arguing that if minorities are socially or politically constructed then the meaning and implications of minority terminology requires greater historical contextualisation. Focusing on the experience of minority‐ness rather than the deployment of the terminology, which only became prevalent after World War I, this article offers additional insights into the historical roots of contemporary minority politics, as well as the (un)making of national minorities. It explores how debates and reforms pertaining to inclusion/exclusion in the period preceding and during the shift from empire to nation‐state directly contributed to the reception and understanding of who is a minority in the modern Middle East. This is particularly examined through the cases of Chaldean Christians in Iraq and Coptic Christians in Egypt. Many of the leaders of these communities publicly reject minority identification and instead favour locating their communities in the nation‐state through the notion of inclusive citizenship (al‐Mowāṭana). According to this narrative, belonging as citizens erases the meaning of minority. The article suggests that the framing of citizen and minority as mutually exclusive notions is one contemporary expression of an enduring tension around constructing belonging in political communities.

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Christians in a changing world

Cited by 10 publications

References 176 publications

The World in Dress

The World in Dress

Borders, Belonging, and Refugee Memory since the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange

Minorities or citizens in the Middle East? Locating the ‘minority question’ in the intersecting histories of collective national belonging and state‐building

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