Conversion and apostasy in the late Ottoman Empire /

"In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this backgro...

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Main Author: Deringil, Selim, 1951-
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Language:eng
Published: Cambridge:NY Cambridge University Press, 2012
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