Disliking Others : Loathing, Hostility, and Distrust in Premodern Ottoman Lands Hardback

Edited by Hakan T. Karateke, H. Erdem Cipa, Helga Anetshofer

Part of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies series

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Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called â€œPax Ottomanica.â€ This edited volume probes the rosy narrative of Ottoman tolerance that has long dominated the discussions.

The articles carefully strive to contextualize the many issues that sound like ethnic slurs, racial stereotyping, religious discrimination, misogyny and elitism to modern ears.

The goal of the volume is not to prove that Ottoman society was a persecuting one, or that dislike or distrust was its defining characteristic, but to investigate the axes of tension, blemishes, and fractures in the everyday practice of coexistence in a dynamic, multi-religious, multi-confessional and multi-ethnic empire in which difference was the norm rather than the exception.