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 34
... converted to Islam in the hope of better treatment ; others , yoked to one another by the neck , could be seen begging for alms in the streets of the capital , Edirne , where they were brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial ...
... converted to Islam in the hope of better treatment ; others , yoked to one another by the neck , could be seen begging for alms in the streets of the capital , Edirne , where they were brought to be sold off , or entered the imperial ...
Page 71
... convert to Islam . The ulema were conscious of the danger of turning him into a martyr ; the Grand Vizier agreed ... converted to test the strength of their faith , or perhaps to bring the Turks themselves onto the right path - for ...
... convert to Islam . The ulema were conscious of the danger of turning him into a martyr ; the Grand Vizier agreed ... converted to test the strength of their faith , or perhaps to bring the Turks themselves onto the right path - for ...
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... converted to 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 ...
... converted to 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 ...
Contents
Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
Copyright | |
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