Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire – Armenians and the Politics of Reform in t…
Brokers of Faith, Brokers of EmpireArmenians and the Politics of Reform in the Ottoman Empire\nAuthor(s): Richard E. Antaramian\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503611627, 978-1503611627\nSynopsis\nThe Ottoman Empire enforced imperial rule through its management of diversity. For centuries, non-Muslim religious institutions, such as the Armenian Church, were charged with guaranteeing their flocks' loyalty to the sultan. Rather than being passive subjects, Armenian elites, both the clergy and laity, strategically wove the institutions of the Armenian Church, and thus the Armenian community itself, into the fabric of imperial society. In so doing, Armenian elites became powerful brokers between factions in Ottoman politicsuntil the politics of nineteenth-century reform changed these relationships.\n\n In Brokers of Faith, Brokers of Empire, Richard E. Antaramian presents a revisionist account of Ott.
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