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Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation Ser.: Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire : From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century by Henry R. Shapiro (2022, Hardcover)

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The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance (Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation) by Shapiro, Henry R. [Hardcover]

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10147447960X

ISBN-139781474479608

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Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire : From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century

Publication Year2022

SubjectMinority Studies, Europe / Eastern, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Modern / 17th Century

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorHenry R. Shapiro

SeriesNon-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

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ReviewsHenry Shapiro's fluency in reading Classical Armenian places him in a select group of scholars. Through a detailed and heretofore unprecedented and expertly weaved examination of the little-known works of two Kemah Armenians - Grigor Daranats'i and Eremia Chelebi K'eomurchean - Shapiro brings to life the gradual blossoming of a richly textured and refined Western Armenian cultural life in the Ottoman Empire. This path-breaking study will change the way that scholars of both Ottoman and Armenian historiographies look at their shared and at times troubled past., Henry Shapiro's first book, The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora , is on the cutting edge of Ottoman studies and Armenian studies scholarship and will be a welcome addition to many libraries. [...] Its goal is to show the establishment and growth, over the course of the seventeenth century, of diasporic Armenian communities in the southeastern Balkans (Eastern Thrace) and Asia Minor (Western Anatolia)., Henry Shapiro opens the gate to a new way of writing the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He masterfully integrates the hitherto poorly known story of the Great Armenian Flight into Ottoman history as one of the central incidents of the period, which had a profound impact on the social and cultural life of the empire in the following centuries. Shapiro's extraordinary command of both Ottoman-Turkish and Ottoman-Armenian sources makes this an exemplary history of a multilingual empire.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal956.100491992

Table Of ContentPart I: Migration and Refugee Crisis 1. Armenians and the "Seventeenth-Century Crisis" in the Ottoman Empire 2. Kemah and the "Great Armenian Flight" 3. An Armenian Refugee Crisis in Ottoman Rodosto (Tekirdag) Part II: Integration and Renaissance 4. Grigor Daranats'i and the Crisis of Leadership and Infrastructure in the Early Seventeenth-Century Western Armenian Diaspora 5. Eremia K'eomurchean and the Foundation of the Western Armenian Intellectual Tradition in Ottoman Istanbul 6. Eremia K'eomurchean and the Establishment of an Armeno-Turkish Translation Movement in Ottoman Istanbul Conclusions: Legacies of the Great Armenian Flight

SynopsisExplores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire, This book traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the seventeenth century. During the centuries that followed, Ottoman Armenian merchants, financiers (sarrafs), authors, musicians, translators, printers and bureaucrats would play key roles in Ottoman trade, cultural life and even governance, that is, in most spheres of the empire's economic and cultural life. This book shows how that cosmopolitan world came into being. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides the first systematic study of Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul. In the first part of the book he documents the Great Armenian Flight, showing how the global crisis of the seventeenth century (war, climate change, famine) impacted the historical Armenian population centres of the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia and led to mass migrations and resettlement in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace. In the second part of the book Shapiro links this history of migration and the refugee crisis with the development of intellectual and cultural life in Istanbul and Western Anatolia - the rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora.

LC Classification NumberDR435.A7