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THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Selim Deringil
Department of History, Bosphorous University, Istanbul
'Of their own free will and desire' :
Mass conversions of Armenians to Islam during the Anatolian massacres of
1894-1897
Thursday, February 14 at 5.30 p.m.
Tóth István György Room
During what came to be called the 'Abdulhamid Era Massacres' of the
1890's, a highly unequal struggle took place in eastern Anatolia between the
Ottoman state, the Armenian revolutionary organizations, the Dashnaksitiun
and the Hunchaksitioun, the Kurdish irregular cavalry and the local Armenian
population. The issue also became a high level diplomatic question involving
high level politics. One aspect of the crisis that has been largely ignored
is the matter of mass conversions to Islam by thousands of Armenians who
converted to save their lives. This issue has been dealt with only
tangentially most of the literature. This paper is a the first fruit of
work in progress on the basis of Ottoman archival documentation.
Selim Deringil is Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies
Program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is currently on
the faculty of the History Department at Bosphorous University, Istanbul,
Turkey. His interests are in cultural and intellectual history and he is
currently involved in research on religious conversion and apostasy in the
late Ottoman Empire. His interests are teaching and research on comparative
themes in Ottoman/European history. He has held various teaching positions
in the US, Britain, Israel and France. He has published in Turkish, English,
French, Greek and Japanese.
A reception will follow
Szilvia Balassa
Program Assistant
CEU Nationalism Studies
www.ceu.hu/nation <http://www.ceu.hu/nation>
1051 Budapest, Nador u. 9. FT 205
Phone: +36 1 235 6102
Fax: +36 1 235 6102
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Selim Deringil
Department of History, Bosphorous University, Istanbul
'Of their own free will and desire' :
Mass conversions of Armenians to Islam during the Anatolian massacres of
1894-1897
Thursday, February 14 at 5.30 p.m.
Tóth István György Room
During what came to be called the 'Abdulhamid Era Massacres' of the
1890's, a highly unequal struggle took place in eastern Anatolia between the
Ottoman state, the Armenian revolutionary organizations, the Dashnaksitiun
and the Hunchaksitioun, the Kurdish irregular cavalry and the local Armenian
population. The issue also became a high level diplomatic question involving
high level politics. One aspect of the crisis that has been largely ignored
is the matter of mass conversions to Islam by thousands of Armenians who
converted to save their lives. This issue has been dealt with only
tangentially most of the literature. This paper is a the first fruit of
work in progress on the basis of Ottoman archival documentation.
Selim Deringil is Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies
Program at the Central European University in Budapest. He is currently on
the faculty of the History Department at Bosphorous University, Istanbul,
Turkey. His interests are in cultural and intellectual history and he is
currently involved in research on religious conversion and apostasy in the
late Ottoman Empire. His interests are teaching and research on comparative
themes in Ottoman/European history. He has held various teaching positions
in the US, Britain, Israel and France. He has published in Turkish, English,
French, Greek and Japanese.
A reception will follow
Szilvia Balassa
Program Assistant
CEU Nationalism Studies
www.ceu.hu/nation <http://www.ceu.hu/nation>
1051 Budapest, Nador u. 9. FT 205
Phone: +36 1 235 6102
Fax: +36 1 235 6102