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Ottoman History Blog: Neither Muslim nor Christian: Crypto-Christians of Trabzon

We would like to share with you the Ottoman History Podcast Blog, where many former fellows of the research program EUME (Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe, Forum Transregionale Studien) have published results of their scientific research on the Ottoman Empire.

They focus on historical events and their meaning for people’s lives and analyze how the Ottoman society changed throughout history. The subjects vary from the interpretation of dreams, Crypto-Christian communities, World war I and the Ottoman home front to the Ottoman Scramble for Africa…

In this episode, Zeyned Türkyılmaz (Dartmouth College, EUME Fellow 2010/22) speaks about the phenomenon of Crypto-Christianity agueing that “diversity and heterogeneity among the Ottoman Empire’s rural communities gave rise to the “in-between” groups that did not conform to categories of identity being formulated in the center.” He focuses on the Trabzon region “in order to understand how local communities sought to define their participation in a rapidly transforming society and economy of the nineteenth century.”

So, lean back, listen and learn!

The podcast and additional sources are available here.


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Forum Transregionale Studien (March 28, 2014). Ottoman History Blog: Neither Muslim nor Christian: Crypto-Christians of Trabzon. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Retrieved May 20, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/use3


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The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. It provides scope for collaboration among researchers with different regional and disciplinary perspectives and appoints researchers from all over the world as Fellows. More...

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