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Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2023)
Journal Article
Karamursel, C. (online). Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12755

This article traces the ways in which the newly inaugurated Turkish Republic dealt with such institutional and legal ‘relics’ as the imperial harem, slavery and polygamy, that it inherited from its immediate, largely undesirable imperial past, condem... Read More about Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire.

The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929) (2023)
Thesis
Liu, L. The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The American missionary activities in late Ottoman society profoundly changed the Middle East landscape. At the American Historical Association’s Conference in 1968, the American missionaries were addressed as “the invisible men of American history”,... Read More about The Work of the American Protestant Missionaries on Muslim Evangelization and Their Perceptions and Interactions with Muslim Turks during the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Period in Turkey (1878-1929).