Selim Deringil, Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire

Abstract

In this highly analytical writing with abundant archival sources, Selim Deringil, one of the leading academics and historians of Turkey, examines the politics of conversion and apostasy of the “Tanzimat State” and “Abdulhamit’s State”, from 1839 to 1908, at a time when the Empire was ‘converting’.