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 74
... Muslim sect , much influenced by the Sufi orders . The Ottoman authorities clearly regarded their heterodoxy with some suspicion and as late as 1905 treated a case of a Maʼmin girl who had fallen in love with her Muslim tutor , Hadji ...
... Muslim sect , much influenced by the Sufi orders . The Ottoman authorities clearly regarded their heterodoxy with some suspicion and as late as 1905 treated a case of a Maʼmin girl who had fallen in love with her Muslim tutor , Hadji ...
Page 313
... Muslim refugees from the hinterland . Between 1912 and 1924 its fate mirrored that of Islam in the city as a whole . Emigration - first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls ...
... Muslim refugees from the hinterland . Between 1912 and 1924 its fate mirrored that of Islam in the city as a whole . Emigration - first voluntary , then forced - depleted the place of Muslims ; the cemetery was desecrated , its walls ...
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... Muslim goods , " mostly by " Macedonian Christians , " in other words Slav peasants . ' By the spring of 1914 tens of thousands of Muslim villagers had passed through Salonica en route to Izmir and Istanbul . " Vast numbers of Moslems ...
... Muslim goods , " mostly by " Macedonian Christians , " in other words Slav peasants . ' By the spring of 1914 tens of thousands of Muslim villagers had passed through Salonica en route to Izmir and Istanbul . " Vast numbers of Moslems ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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