Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950HarperCollins, 2004 - 525 pages The history of a rarely written about, bewilderingly exotic city: 500 years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research, Salonica will evoke the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed and discarded. For centuries Muslims, Christians, and Jews have succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of cultural traditions and memories of extreme violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands of both Europe and the East. |
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... religion , to resolve the difficulties of the branches of religious law , the subtleties of the tradition and the truths of the exegesis of the Quran . ' He was not only to give lessons to students , but also to look after their welfare ...
... religion , to resolve the difficulties of the branches of religious law , the subtleties of the tradition and the truths of the exegesis of the Quran . ' He was not only to give lessons to students , but also to look after their welfare ...
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... religious customs of the other , and everyone enjoying complete freedom in the exercise of his social privileges . ' The new policy was underlined in religious holidays and official cere- monies . After the Ottoman fleet arrived in port ...
... religious customs of the other , and everyone enjoying complete freedom in the exercise of his social privileges . ' The new policy was underlined in religious holidays and official cere- monies . After the Ottoman fleet arrived in port ...
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... religious leaders would be forced to hand over to the lay members of the new communal councils . When Abdul Mecid visited Salonica in 1859 , he granted a personal audience only to those Jewish notables ' with whom he could converse in ...
... religious leaders would be forced to hand over to the lay members of the new communal councils . When Abdul Mecid visited Salonica in 1859 , he granted a personal audience only to those Jewish notables ' with whom he could converse in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Conquest 1430 | 15 |
Mosques and Hamams 31 | 31 |
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