Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. 'Avoiding the imperial headache': conversion, apostasy and the Tanzimat state; 2. Conversion as diplomatic crisis; 3. 'Crypto-christianity'; 4. Career converts, migrant souls, and Ottoman citizenship; 5. Conversion as survival: mass conversions of Armenians in Anatolia, 1895–7; Conclusion.

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This book examines how issues of nationalism, national identity and belonging played out in a multi-religious setting during the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

About the Author

Selim Deringil is Professor of History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909 (1999).