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Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century

Av Henry R. Shapiro

Del i serien Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation

1895 kr

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At the turn of the 17th century, the historical Armenian population centres in Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus were ravaged by war with Persia, rebellion, famine and economic collapse. This instability caused mass migrations towards secure territories in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace, migrations which catalysed a renaissance of Armenian literary and cultural life in the Ottoman capital.This book traces the emergence, experiences and cultural and literary production of Armenian communities in and around Istanbul and the western provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides a systematic study of the Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul and the birth of the Western Armenian diaspora.
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Henry R. Shapiro is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and he also teaches courses on early modern Islamic history and the Classical Armenian language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes on the histories of non-Muslims in the early modern Islamic empires, particularly in the Ottoman Empire. Shapiro completed his PhD in History at Princeton University, his MA at Sabancı University, an MDiv at Harvard Divinity School, and his BA in Classics at Brown University. He has published articles in the Journal of Early Modern History and Iranian Studies.

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Henry Shapiro opens the gate to a new way of writing the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He masterfully integrates the hitherto poorly known story of the Great Armenian Flight into Ottoman history as one of the central incidents of the period, which had a profound impact on the social and cultural life of the empire in the following centuries. Shapiro’s extraordinary command of both Ottoman-Turkish and Ottoman-Armenian sources makes this an exemplary history of a multilingual empire.

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