Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 - 490 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 153
... religious elites , they actually increased the administrative power , authority and prestige of the non- Muslim religious leaders . Ottoman modernization was not , in other words , about the construction of new French - style secular ...
... religious elites , they actually increased the administrative power , authority and prestige of the non- Muslim religious leaders . Ottoman modernization was not , in other words , about the construction of new French - style secular ...
Page 219
... religious leaders . This clash was produced directly by the contradictory consequences of the Ottoman legislative reforms . As we have seen , one effect of the 1839 Gulhané decree , which aimed to promote equality between the empire's ...
... religious leaders . This clash was produced directly by the contradictory consequences of the Ottoman legislative reforms . As we have seen , one effect of the 1839 Gulhané decree , which aimed to promote equality between the empire's ...
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... religious hierarchy.12 12 The struggle for communal authority was fought out over many areas — care for the poor and sick , the upkeep of cemeteries , the admin- istration of religious foundations themselves — but the key battleground ...
... religious hierarchy.12 12 The struggle for communal authority was fought out over many areas — care for the poor and sick , the upkeep of cemeteries , the admin- istration of religious foundations themselves — but the key battleground ...
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Conquest 1430 | 17 |
Mosques and Hamams | 32 |
The Arrival of the Sefardim | 46 |
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