The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond write by Khalid S. Dinno. This book was released on 2017. The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods
The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods write by Khalid S. Dinno. This book was released on 2015. The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the protection afforded to the smaller minorities of the Ottoman Empire through the millet system (Chapter One), Syrian Orthodoxy witnessed weakness and depletion throughout the nineteenth century, caused by significant conversion to Western Christianity, particularly in Syria and in Iraq. In the meantime a separate Western Christian intrusion was unfolding among the Syrian Orthodox communities in India. The resulting problems prompted a first journey by a Syrian Orthodox patriarch to that part of the world. Patriarch Peter's journey in 1874-1877 was a landmark event that first entailed a journey to England and audience with Queen Victoria. The hitherto little known involvement of the Anglican Church in this intrusion is uncovered in Chapter Three. The events following the 1895 violence in southeastern Anatolia became precursors to the genocidal Safyo of 1915, which resulted in the annihilation of nearly half the Syrian Orthodox in Anatolia and brought Syrian Orthodoxy to the verge of extinction (Chapter Four). The apathy of the victors of World War I towards the beleaguered survivors at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-20 contrasted with the accommodation the exiled survivors found in the Arab lands to the south, where historical affinity was rekindled (Chapter Five). From the safety of this new environment, Syrian Orthodoxy, aided by the critical core of enlightened individuals, rose again drawing on venerable Syriac cultural tradition and an associated patriarchal standing that was characteristically free from social elitism and tribal sectarianism. Utilizing the quest for learning that was the mantra in the new nation states, the new leadership, despite meager resources, launched Syrian Orthodoxy on a course of revival and renaissance not witnessed since the days of Bar Hebraeus in the late thirteenth century (Chapter Six). In addition to conventional primary and secondary sources, this thesis relies substantially on hitherto untapped Syrian Orthodox archival material, which has shed new light on many important events. In particular, the analysis of nearly 5700 letters from ordinary people to the patriarch of the day (Chapter Two) has provided a subaltern view of society, as opposed to the elitist view which conventional history often offers.
Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond
Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond write by Khalid Dinno. This book was released on 2016-05-30. Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831
Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831 write by Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of significant minority religious groups within the predominantly Islamic Middle East. Of these minorities Christians are by far the largest, comprising over 10% of the population in Syria and as much as 40% in Lebanon.The largest single group of Christians are the Arabic-speaking Orthodox. This work fills a major lacuna in the scholarship of wider Christian history and more specifically that of lived religion within the Ottoman empire. Beginning with a survey of the Christian community during the first nine hundred years of Muslim rule, the author traces the evolution of Arab Orthodox Christian society from its roots in the Hellenistic culture of the Byzantine Empire to a distinctly Syro-Palestinian identity. There follows a detailed examination of this multi-faceted community, from the Ottoman conquest of Syria, Palestine and Egypt in 1516 to the Egyptian invasion of Syria in 1831. The author draws on archaeological evidence and previously unpublished primary sources uncovered in Russian archives and Middle Eastern monastic libraries to present a vivid and compelling account of this vital but little-known spiritual and political culture, situating it within a complex network of relations reaching throughout the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. The work is made more accessible to a non-specialist reader by the addition of a glossary, whilst the scholar will benefit from a detailed bibliography of both primary and secondary sources. A foreword has been contributed to this first English language edition by the Patriarch of Antioch, John X. It contextualizes the history found in this work within the ongoing struggle to preserve the ancient Christian cultures of the Arabic speaking peoples from extinction within their ancestral homeland.
Narratives of Identity
Narratives of Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives of Identity write by William Taylor. This book was released on 2014-10-16. Narratives of Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationship between the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire and the Church of England developed substantially between 1895 and 1914, as contacts between them grew. As the character of this emerging relationship changed, it contributed to the formation of both churches’ own ‘narratives of identity’. The wider context in which this took place was a period of instability in the international order, particularly within the Ottoman Empire, culminating in the outbreak of the First World War, effectively bringing this phase of sustained contact to an end. Narratives of Identity makes use of Syriac, Garshuni, and Arabic primary sources from Syrian Orthodox archives in Turkey and Syria, alongside Ottoman documents from the Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi, Istanbul, and a range of English archival sources. The preconceptions of both Churches are analysed, using a philosophical framework provided by the work of Paul Ricoeur, especially his concepts of significant memory (anamnesis), translation, and the search for mutual recognition. Anamnesis and translation were extensively employed in the formation of ‘narratives of identity’ that needed to be understood by both Churches. The identity claims of the Tractarian section of the Church of England and of the Ottoman Syrian Orthodox Church are examined using this framework. The detailed content of the theological dialogue between them, is then examined, and placed in the context of the rapidly changing demography of eastern Anatolia, the Syrian Orthodox ‘heartland’. The late Ottoman state was characterised by an increased instability for all its non-Muslim minorities, which contributed to the perceived threats to Ottoman Syrian Orthodoxy, both from within and without. Finally, a new teleological framework is proposed in order to better understand these exchanges, taking seriously the amamnetic insights of the narratives of identity of both the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England from 1895 to 1914.
