The Gennadius Library will hold a workshop entitled “Orthodoxy and the Ottoman World Around It: Cultural and Intellectual Connections, 1657-1861” on Tuesday April 23, 2024 in Cotsen Hall from 10 am to 8pm.
Inspired by the post-doctoral work of Dr. Yusuf Ziya Karabicak, Macricostas Fellow 2023-2024 at the Gennadius Library, the workshop brings together ten scholars who will delve into the intellectual, cultural, artistic, and political connections between Muslim and Orthodox actors around the Orthodox Church, which are undoubtedly strongly linked to the economic and political context of the institution.
It will bring together scholars who focus on neglected aspects of the relationship between actors around the Orthodox Church and the Ottoman government. Our focus is on the cultural and intellectual connections, material ties, everyday relations, and shared frameworks for understanding the politics that created influences which went both ways. We aim to flesh out an Ottoman world that revolved around the Orthodox Church, and to give life to the economic and political aspects of the relationship that we now understand much better.
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Orthodoxy and the Ottoman World Around It: Cultural and Intellectual Connections, 1657-1861