THE MILLET SYSTEM AND THE CHALLENGE OF OTHER CONFESSIONAL MODELS, 1856-1865
| dc.contributor.author | Kocunyan, Aylin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-18T20:49:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-18T20:49:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.department | İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this article on the interaction of various confessional models is to illustrate interimperial rivalry in the matter of religious freedoms by focusing on the institutionalization of the Ottoman Armenian and Jewish millets in the period following the Crimean War and the promulgation of the 1856 Reform Decree in the Ottoman Empire, which granted equality to all subjects of the Sultan before the law. The article shows how this institutionalization and regulation of religious communities faced the challenge of other confessional models developed outside the Ottoman Empire and how the Crimean War crystallized a process that had already started in decades prior to the promulgation of the 1856 Edict. While prioritizing the influence of the Jewish consistorial model of France and French constitutionalism on the Ottomans, this essay also takes into consideration how the Ottoman and Russian empires interacted with one another as regional competing powers when centralizing their regimes of faiths in the nineteenth century. The cross-imperial case study of Jews and Armenians also illustrates the global impact of Napoleonic codes of which the regime des cultes was an important component. In that respect, the article exemplifies the extent to which religious communities became important human channels, consciously or unconsciously, that spread the Napoleonic confessional model beyond the French territory. It also shows the interaction of various Islamic contexts (Ottoman, Egyptian, and Algerian) in the governance strategy of the non-Muslims. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) within the program Trans-acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-) Ottoman Globalization [ANR-12-GLOB-003] | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Research for this article was made possible through financial support from the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) within the program Trans-acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (Post-) Ottoman Globalization [Matieres a transfaire. Espaces-temps d'une globalisation (post-) ottomane] (ANR-12-GLOB-003). An initial version of this text has been presented during the workshop I co-organized with Marc Aymes and Sumbul Kaya on the Making of Law in the Ottoman Space, 1800-1914 at the College de France in May 2015 and at the seminar Transfaire organized by Marc Aymes and Sumbul Kaya at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. My special thanks go to Edhem Eldem, who kindly accepted to be my discussant during this seminar and made valuable comments on my article. I would also like to thank some specialized libraries and archives and their staffs in Paris for facilitating my research: the Consistoire central israelite de France and its curator, Philippe Landau, the Library of the Alliance israelite universelle and Jean-Claude Kuperminc, Rose Levyne, and Guila Cooper, and the Bibliotheque de la Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme francais and Florence Poinsot and Sophie Vie. The author acknowledges the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/imp.2017.0004 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 85 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2166-4072 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2164-9731 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85019885896 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.scopusquality | Q2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 59 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2017.0004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11411/8066 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000411088300005 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | N/A | en_US |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | en_US |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Redaktsiya Zhurnala Ab Imperio | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Ab Imperio-Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in The Post-Soviet Space | en_US |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | en_US |
| dc.title | THE MILLET SYSTEM AND THE CHALLENGE OF OTHER CONFESSIONAL MODELS, 1856-1865 | |
| dc.type | Article |
