Transcending Boundaries: Rethinking Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire Through Religious Conversion Practices
Transcending Boundaries: Rethinking Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire Through Religious Conversion Practices
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Abstract
This article explores the religious conversion of slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Crimea
as a profound and transforming event in the lives of slaves. We will analyze the conditions,
reasons, and consequences of conversion by studying court records from different cities from
the 16th to 18th centuries. It will also explore the relation between religious conversion and
the agency of the slaves. The primary research inquiries that this working paper seeks to
address are as follows: What impact did religious conversion have on the agency of the slaves?
What was the impact of conversion on their lives (as well as the lives of their slave owners)
during and after being enslaved? Do the circumstances and effects of conversion differ
between male and female slaves? This study aims to elucidate these inquiries in an endeavor
to offer a new perspective on the relation between enslavement and conversion.
Subjects
Dependency and Slavery Studies, Ottoman Empire, Crimea, Slave Agency, Slave Conversion
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900 Geschichte 940 Geschichte Europas 950 Geschichte AsiensFirst Publication
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BCDSS Working Papers ; 14Wagner, Veruschka; Gökçe, Zeynep Yeşim; Abacı, Zeynep Dörtok; Allahverdiyeva, Turkana: Transcending Boundaries: Rethinking Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire Through Religious Conversion Practices. Bonn: Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, 2024. In: BCDSS Working Papers, 14.
Online-Ausgabe in bonndoc: https://doi.org/10.48565/bonndoc-279
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doi: https://doi.org/10.48565/bonndoc-279,
author = {{Veruschka Wagner} and {Zeynep Yeşim Gökçe} and {Zeynep Dörtok Abacı} and {Turkana Allahverdiyeva}},
title = {Transcending Boundaries: Rethinking Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire Through Religious Conversion Practices},
publisher = {Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies},
year = 2024,
month = may,
series = {BCDSS Working Papers},
volume = 14,
note = {This article explores the religious conversion of slaves in the Ottoman Empire and the Crimea as a profound and transforming event in the lives of slaves. We will analyze the conditions, reasons, and consequences of conversion by studying court records from different cities from the 16th to 18th centuries. It will also explore the relation between religious conversion and the agency of the slaves. The primary research inquiries that this working paper seeks to address are as follows: What impact did religious conversion have on the agency of the slaves? What was the impact of conversion on their lives (as well as the lives of their slave owners) during and after being enslaved? Do the circumstances and effects of conversion differ between male and female slaves? This study aims to elucidate these inquiries in an endeavor to offer a new perspective on the relation between enslavement and conversion.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/11527}
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