Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Ambiguities in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Gülbin Kiranoglu (Anthology Editor) , Kader Konuk (Anthology Editor) , Zeynep Tüfekçioglu (Anthology Editor)
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Religious, Ethnic and Cultural Ambiguities in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Gülbin Kiranoglu (Anthology Editor) , Kader Konuk (Anthology Editor) , Zeynep Tüfekçioglu (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
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How should we understand the religious, ethnic and cultural complexity of the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey?
This open-access volume addresses this question by mobilizing the concept of ambiguity as a critical lens to examine identities, relations and everyday practices that resist near categorization. It shows how attention to ambiguity opens up new modes of reading and sustains interdisciplinary dialogue. Organized around processes of conversion, Islamization and assimilation, the volume foregrounds social and cultural configurations of individuals and communities, often described as hybrid, liminal, syncretic or heterodox. Through compelling case studies of communities such as the dönme, Kurdo-Armenians, Hemshinlis and Yezidis, as well as individuals with non-Abrahamic and agnostic orientations, the volume demonstrates that ambiguity plays a constitutive role in negotiating identity and belonging in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, German Research Foundation
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations
Ambiguities in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Gülbin Kiranoglu, Kader Konuk and Zeynep Tüfekçioglu
PART I
Conversion: Navigating Loyalties
1. Dealing with 'Ambiguous' Beliefs and Loyalties: State, Faith and Yezidi Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire
Edip Gölbasi
2. From Spiritual Rapture to Religious Diversity
Laurent Mignon
3. Deconversion and (Un)intentional Ambivalence in Polarized Turkey: The Case of Hasan Aydin
Théo Malçok
4. Confessions of a Convert and Whispers of Heresy: Strategies of Ambiguity in Iskender Pala's Itiraf
Zeynep Tüfekçioglu
PART II
Islamization: Transforming Heritage
5. Shared Sacredness or the Ambiguous Religiosity of Cappadocians in the Late Ottoman Period
Aude Aylin de Tapia
6. Ambiguities of Spatial Politics: A Site-Specific Performance in Pre-Gezi Istanbul
Deniz Basar
7. Social Transformation of Kirîvatî Kinship in Contemporary Kurdish Fiction
Davut Yesilmen
8. Translating Tradition through Time: Thoughts on a Contemporary Manuscript Painting by Cansu Çakar
Eva Liedtjens
PART III
Assimilation: Negotiating Belongings
9. 'Love for Mankind' or 'Love for the Genos'? Philanthropic Institutions as an Expression of Belonging to Istanbul's Greek Orthodox (Rum) Community
Haris Theodorelis-Rigas
10. 'The Young Jew': Istanbul's Jews during World War II and Beyond in Moris Farhi's The Young Turk
H. Esra Almas
11. Narrating Jews in Turkey and the Challenge(s) of Ambiguity
Béatrice Hendrich
12. 'Neither Turkish Nationalism nor Armenian Essentialism': Navigating Ambiguations of the Hemshinli in GOR
Gülbin Kiranoglu
EpilogueAmbiguous Loss in Exile
Kader Konuk
Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9780755657582 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Contemporary Turkey |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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