Religious Changes in the Period of Tanzimat (Revoluaton): ConversionSecret Religion-Tanassur (Being Christan) and Otoman
TANZİMAT DÖNEMİNDE DİNÎ DEĞİŞİM HALLERİ: İHTİDA-GİZLİ DİN-TANASSUR VE OSMANLI

Author : -Halide ASLAN
Number of pages : 32-55

Abstract

The Otoman system was a formaton that based on differences. ‘Sameness’ or ‘similarity’ instead of ‘difference’ was basic in pre-modern Otoman. This mosaic model of society based on differences in belief and preserved by law. Our topic is appearance’s transportaton which is one of the consequences of religious and natonal mult-unity in Otoman’s Period of Tanzimat (Revoluton) The main issues are religious conversion, and tanassur (being Christan) secret religion, and apostasy that they will be subject of this paper. Our aim is to evaluate from a different perspectve this issue as problematc that reflected the extent of archival documents and Court Records rather than to give the numerical values of these views. Conversion to Islam’s causes, results, and secret religious’ reasons and tanassur’s effects are open-ended topics. In this paper, the effect of the religious change and appearance’s those changes that conversion to Islam, secret religion, crypto, tanassur (being Christan) and apostasy in the the Period of Tanzimat will be evaluated according to Otoman Archive Documents.

Keywords

Converted to Islam, apostasy, secret religion, Period of Tanzimat (Revoluaton), tanassur (being Christan).

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