Ottoman Treatment of Non-Muslims during the Hamidian Period

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16846
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Masayuki Ueno 大阪市立大学, 大学院文学研究科, 准教授 (10709538)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: オスマン帝国 / アルメニア人

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, I examined the Ottoman treatment of non-Muslim religious communities in the late nineteenth century. I elucidated that the guarantee of religious privileges in 1853 prepared a new set of terminology, “privileges,” “religion (religious),” and “politics (political),” for discussing the scope of the jurisdiction to be granted to the non-Muslim religious authorities, and this terminology continued to be used in the late nineteenth century. I also found that lay notables of non-Muslims, especially those who entered the Ottoman bureaucracy, played an important role, acting as intermediaries between the Ottoman government and non-Muslim communities.

Free Research Field

オスマン帝国史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は、制度化とその後の展開を明らかにすることで、オスマン帝国の非ムスリム統治方式に関する理解を見直し、多様な文化的背景を持つ人々から構成されたオスマン社会のあり方と、近代国家形成過程におけるその変容を明らかにすることに大きく貢献するものである。また、多文化社会のあり方や宗教的少数者の処遇といった現代世界の重要課題にオスマン帝国史の観点から新たな考察材料を提供するものとしての意義も有している。