Table of Contents

Contents

• Introduction—B. Braude.
• Transformation of Zimmi into Askerî—İ. Metin Kunt.
• Foundation Myths of the Millet System—B. Braude.
• The Rise of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople—K.B. Bardakjian.
• Ottoman Policy Toward the Jews and Jewish Attitudes Toward the Ottomans During the Fifteenth Century—J.R. Hacker.
• The Greek Millet in the Ottoman Empire—R. Clogg.
• The Dual Role of the Armenian Amira Class Within the Ottoman Government and the Armenian Millet, 1750–1850—H. Barsoumian.
• Foreign Merchants and the Minorities in Istanbul During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries—R. Mantran.
• The Transformation of the Economic Position of the Millets in the Nineteenth Century—C. Issawi.
• The Millets as Agents of Change in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire—R.H. Davison.
• The Acid Test of Ottomanism: The Acceptance of Non-Muslims in the Late Ottoman Bureaucracy—C.V. Findley.
• Communal Conflict in Ottoman Syria During the Reform Era: The Role of Political and Economic Factors—M. Ma'oz.
• Communal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon—S. Khalaf.
• Unionist Relations with the Greek, Armenian, and Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1914—F. Ahmad.
• The Political Situation of the Copts, 1798–1923—D. Behrens-Abouseif.

About the Author

Benjamin Braude is associate professor of history at Boston College, USA.

Reviews

From the reviews of the original edition:

"Provides a hitherto missing, yet indispensable, introductory treatment of the role played by non-Muslim peoples in the multinational Ottoman empire." — Middle East Journal

"An exceptionally rich resource ... on a very important and highly interesting topic." — The Muslim World