Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire (1453?1860)

Course content

Ottoman polity; religious and ethnic populations; non-Muslim subjects; ethno-religious identities; interrelations with imperial authority; tolerance; coexistence; conflict; loyalty and identity formation; regional case studies; Anatolia; the Balkans; the Arab Middle East; organizational principles; operational mechanisms; transformations; multi-confessional state and society; the early modern and modern periods; broader discourses; pluralism; governance; social (dis)integration; imperial contexts.