TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alkan,Necati
TI  - Non-Sunni Muslims in the late Ottoman empire: state and missionary perceptions of the Alawis
SN  - 9780755616848
U1  - 297.83 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Nosairians
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Missions
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Nusayris
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - fast
KW  - Nusairier
KW  - gnd
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - Empire ottoman
KW  - Osmanisches Reich
N2  - "The Alawis or Alawites are a minority Muslim sect, predominantly based in Syria, Turkey and Lebanon. Over the course of the 19th century, they came increasingly under the attention of the ruling Ottoman authorities in their attempts to modernize the Empire, as well as Western Protestant missionaries. Using Ottoman state archives and contemporary chronicles, this book explores the Ottoman government's attitudes and policies towards the Alawis, revealing how successive regimes sought to bring them into the Sunni mainstream fold for a combination of political, imperial and religious reasons. In the context of increasing Western interference in the empire's domains, Alkan reveals the origins of Ottoman attempts to 'civilize' the Alawis, from the Tanzimat period to the Young Turk Revolution. He compares Ottoman attitudes to Alawis against its treatment of other minorities, including Bektashis, Alevis, Yezidis and Iraqi Shi'a. An important new contribution to the literature on the history of the Alawis and Ottoman policy towards minorities, this book will be essential reading for scholars of the late Ottoman Empire and minorities of the Middle East."
ER  -