State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands

The Resource State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands

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State, faith, and nation in Ottoman and post-Ottoman lands

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Frederick F. Anscombe, University of London

Language

eng

Summary

"Current standard narratives of Ottoman, Balkan, and Middle East history overemphasize the role of nationalism in the transformation of the region. Challenging these accounts, this book argues that religious affiliation was in fact the most influential shaper of communal identity in the Ottoman era, that religion moulded the relationship between state and society, and that it continues to do so today in lands once occupied by the Ottomans. The book examines the major transformations of the past 250 years to illustrate this argument, traversing the nineteenth century, the early decades of post-Ottoman independence, and the recent past. In this way, the book affords unusual insights not only into the historical patterns of political development but also into the forces shaping contemporary crises, from the dissolution of Yugoslavia to the rise of political Islam"--

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Index

index present

LC call number

BP173.6

LC item number

.A575 2014

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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