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This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.

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Aude Aylin de Tapia, PhD (2016), EHESS (Paris) & Bogaziçi University (Istanbul), is Professor of Turkish and Islamic studies at the University of Freiburg (Germany). She has published many works on the history and anthropology of the late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, including “Cappadocia's Ottoman-Greek-Orthodox Heritage: The Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of a Religious Heritage Complex”, in Cerezales & Isnart (eds.), The Religious Heritage Complex: Conservation, Objects and Habitus in Spiritual Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2020).

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