Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M05 9 - 544 pages Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced out, and the Nazis deported and killed the Jews. As the acclaimed historian Mark Mazower follows the city’s inhabitants through plague, invasion, famine, and the disastrous twentieth century, he resurrects a fascinating and vanished world. |
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Page 35
... Islam , both before and after the conquest , but it was chiefly through the settlers from Ana- tolia that Salonica was transformed - in the words of the chronicler Ashikpashazadé - from a " domain of idolatry " to a " domain of Islam ...
... Islam , both before and after the conquest , but it was chiefly through the settlers from Ana- tolia that Salonica was transformed - in the words of the chronicler Ashikpashazadé - from a " domain of idolatry " to a " domain of Islam ...
Page 88
... Islam before seeing the error of their ways , what had induced their initial apostasy did not matter to the church — it might have been nothing more noble than the desire to pay lower taxes or to escape punishment for earlier crimes ...
... Islam before seeing the error of their ways , what had induced their initial apostasy did not matter to the church — it might have been nothing more noble than the desire to pay lower taxes or to escape punishment for earlier crimes ...
Page 150
... Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian of Sacred Relics , Protector of the ... Islam's primacy came under challenge . Nowhere was the impact of the reforms more keenly felt than in the ...
... Islamic state and the Ottoman sultan was also Warrior of the Faith , Custodian of Sacred Relics , Protector of the ... Islam's primacy came under challenge . Nowhere was the impact of the reforms more keenly felt than in the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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