The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire : : From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th Century / / Henry Shapiro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Shapiro, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Non-Muslim Contributions to Islamic Civilisation : NMCIC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations 20 black and white illustrations and 3 maps

Explores how mass migration and a refugee crisis transformed Armenian culture in the 17th-century Ottoman EmpireProvides the first English book on Armenian cultural history in the early modern Ottoman EmpireUtilises original research on Armenian manuscripts and Ottoman Turkish archivesResonates with contemporary concerns about climate change, migration and refugeesIncludes 20 black and white photographs of Armenian ruins, documents and historical sitesThe Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the 17th century. During the centuries that followed, Ottoman Armenian merchants, financiers (sarraf), authors, musicians, translators, printers and bureaucrats would play key roles in Ottoman trade, art and even governance – that is, in most spheres of the empire's economic and cultural life. This book shows how that cosmopolitan world came into being. Using both Ottoman Turkish and little-known Armenian sources, Henry Shapiro provides the first systematic study of Armenian population movements that resulted in the cosmopolitan remaking of Istanbul. Part I documents the Great Armenian Flight, showing how the global crisis of the 17th century (war, climate change, famine) impacted the historical Armenian population centres of the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia and led to mass migrations and resettlement in Western Anatolia, Istanbul and Thrace. In Part II, Shapiro links this history of migration and the refugee crisis with the development of intellectual and cultural life in Istanbul and Western Anatolia: the rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- A Note on Transliteration, Abbreviation and Translation -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Migration And Refugee Crisis -- 1. Armenians and the ‘Seventeenth-century Crisis’ in the Ottoman Empire -- 2. Kemah and the ‘Great Armenian Flight’ -- 3. An Armenian Refugee Crisis in Ottoman Rodosto (Tekirdağ) -- Part II. Integration And Renaissance -- 4. Grigor Daranaḷts‘i and the Crisis of Leadership and Infrastructure in the Early Seventeenth-century Western Armenian Diaspora -- 5. Eremia K‘eōmurchean and the Foundation of the Western Armenian Intellectual Tradition in Ottoman Istanbul -- 6. Eremia K‘eōmurchean and the Establishment of an Armeno- Turkish Translation Movement in Ottoman Istanbul -- Conclusions: Legacies of the Great Armenian Flight -- Bibliography -- Index