Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire

Masayuki Ueno is Associate Professor of Asian History at Osaka Metropolitan University. He has published articles in International Journal of Middle East Studies (2013, 2022), Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient (2016), Middle Eastern Studies (2016), and Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (2018), as well as articles and book chapters in Japanese.

• PrefaceNote on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: Multireligious Empire, Christian Armenians and Politicisation of Religion1. Cooperation against the Religion of the Pope2. Participation of Lay Elites in Community Administration3. The Promises of the Tanzimat Reforms4. The Armenian Church and Transimperial Politics5. Negotiating the Scope of Communal Affairs6. The Legacy of the Tanzimat ReformsConclusion: Rediscovering the Religious PrivilegesBibliography

Dr. Ueno’s book is a meticulous study of the Ottoman governance of Christians in a period when the age-old hierarchies were transformed and religious institutions were rebuilt. Based on immense research and novel comparative perspective, it convincingly demonstrates Armenian elites’ struggle for participating in the Ottoman imperial system before the extermination of their nation during World War I.