A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East

Heather J. Sharkey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

394 Seiten

2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-18687-2 (ISBN)

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This book examines relations between Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Middle East before World War I. It describes how religion influenced state policies and popular attitudes, and how people mingled in daily life. Clearly and engagingly written, this book will appeal to undergraduates, experts, and general readers alike.

Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting backdrop of state policies. Focusing on the Ottoman Middle East before World War I, Sharkey offers a vivid and lively analysis of everyday social contacts, dress, music, food, bathing, and more, as they brought people together or pushed them apart. Historically, Islamic traditions of statecraft and law, which the Ottoman Empire maintained and adapted, treated Christians and Jews as protected subordinates to Muslims while prescribing limits to social mixing. Sharkey shows how, amid the pivotal changes of the modern era, efforts to simultaneously preserve and dismantle these hierarchies heightened tensions along religious lines and set the stage for the twentieth-century Middle East.

Heather J. Sharkey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003) and American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire (2008).

1. Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East; 2. The Islamic foundations of inter-communal relations; 3. The Ottoman experience; 4. The Ottoman Empire in an age of reform: from Sultan Mahmud II to the end of the Tanzimat era, 1808–76; 5. The pivotal era of Abdulhamid II, 1876–1909; 6. Coming together, moving apart: Ottoman Muslims, Christians, and Jews at the turn of the century; Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Contemporary Middle East
Zusatzinfo	18 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-18687-0 / 0521186870
ISBN-13	978-0-521-18687-2 / 9780521186872
Zustand	Neuware