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 72
... MA'MIN HUNDREDS MORE , HOWEVER , did actually follow Zevi into Islam— some at the time , and others a few years later — and by doing so they gave rise to what was perhaps one of the most unusual religious com- munities in the Levant ...
... MA'MIN HUNDREDS MORE , HOWEVER , did actually follow Zevi into Islam— some at the time , and others a few years later — and by doing so they gave rise to what was perhaps one of the most unusual religious com- munities in the Levant ...
Page 74
... Ma'min girl who had fallen in love with her Muslim tutor , Hadji Feyzullah Effendi , as a question of conversion . Yet with their usual indifference to inner belief , they left them alone . A pasha who proposed to put them all to death ...
... Ma'min girl who had fallen in love with her Muslim tutor , Hadji Feyzullah Effendi , as a question of conversion . Yet with their usual indifference to inner belief , they left them alone . A pasha who proposed to put them all to death ...
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... Ma'min ministers in the first Young Turk government . Indeed conspiracy theorists saw the Ma'min everywhere and assumed any Muslim from Salonica must be one . Today some people even argue that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk must have been a ...
... Ma'min ministers in the first Young Turk government . Indeed conspiracy theorists saw the Ma'min everywhere and assumed any Muslim from Salonica must be one . Today some people even argue that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk must have been a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams w | 32 |
Copyright | |
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