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Book SynopsisShows that German anti-Semitism did not originate with racist ideology or religious animosity, as is often supposed. The author demonstrates that it was rooted in a more basic emotion: material envy.

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to one true faith.Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs'' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike

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Book SynopsisWhy does religion inspire hatred? Why do people in one religion sometimes hate people of another religion, and also why do some religions inspire hatred from others?This book shows how scholarly studies of prejudice, identity formation, and genocide studies can shed light on global examples of religious hatred. The book is divided into four parts, focusing respectively on: theories of prejudice and violence; historical developments of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and race; contemporary Western antisemitism and Islamophobia; and, prejudices beyond the West in the Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions. Each part ends with a special focus section. Key features include: - A compelling synthesis of theories of prejudice, identity, and hatred to explain Islamophobia and antisemitism. - An innovative theory of human violence and genocide which explains the link to prejudice. - Case studies of both Western antisemitism and Islamophobia in history and today, alongside Trade ReviewHedges has written a remarkable book, which deserves to be widely read by students of religion, as well as by those who work in community relations. It is accessible and clearly written ... work of scholarship from an expert in interreligious relations. * Reviews in Religion and Theology *Paul Hedges offers a critical and multidisciplinary contribution to the perennial questions regarding the whence, whither, wherefore, and whereby of religious hatred ... Significantly, he connects antisemitism and Islamophobia together as forms of bias and prejudice (partially explainable through social identity theory). For this, and more, the book is highly commendable ... Indeed, I’ll be employing it in my own classes precisely because of how it opens us up to debate and critical exploration. * Journal of Interreligious Studies *Religious Hatred is an ambitious book ... No one volume attempting to weave together so much history in so many places can do everything, but Hedges is able to do quite a lot to enter into and further a conversation that, I hope, will remain at the forefront. With Islamophobia and antisemitism on the rise, work like this is crucial. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *The book is written in straightforward and jargon-free language that makes it suitable for a course book but also relevant for senior scholars and the general public. It is carefully worded with elegant alliterative sentences, inviting the reader to stop and reflect. * TEMENOS: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion *I believe the book to be of great worth ... I have learned a lot from it, and will undoubtedly return to it ... Overall, the book offers rich reward for taking the time to read it and think about it. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Hedges’ book is an excellent resource for educators and scholars hoping to have more nuanced and balanced discussions on the realities of Islamophobia and antisemitism. His book equips his readers with the resources they need not only to conceptually understand what prejudice, hatred and violence are as human phenomena, but also to respond to these challenges with deeper historical awareness and sensitivity. * Current Dialogue *Table of ContentsPart 1: Why do we Hate? Chapter 1: Race, Religion, Rhetoric: Theories of Prejudice and Othering Chapter 2: The Hatred unto Death: When Prejudice Becomes Killing and Genocide Special Focus: What is Religious Hatred? Part 2: Bridges from the Past Chapter 3: The Oldest Prejudice? Christian Anti-Semitism from the Gospels to Luther Chapter 4: Kafir and Turks: Christians and Muslims through History Chapter 5: Enlightenment, Citizenship, and Race: The Modern Hatred of Jews, Muslims and People of Colour Special Focus: Why did the Holocaust happen? Part 3: Contemporary Western Hatreds Chapter 6: The West’s Eternal Jewish Question? Politics, Anti-Semitism, and Holocaust Denial Chapter 7: “Why do they hate us?” and Why do we hate them? Contemporary Western Islamophobias Special Focus: Are Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia Connected? Part 4: Prejudice Beyond the West Chapter 8: From People of the Book to Enemies of Islam: Islamic Anti-Semitism and Palestine-Israel Chapter 9: Killing for the Buddha: Islamophobia in the Buddhist World Chapter 10: Hindus and the Fatherland: Hindutva as Hatred Special Focus: Can we Regulate Against Religious Hatred? Epilogue: The Good News: Dialogue, Civil Rights, and Peacebuilding Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents an incisive analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes a long way toward explaining the gulf between Western and Middle Eastern cultural perspectives. Salzman focuses on two basic principles of tribal organization that have become central principles of Middle Eastern life—balanced opposition (each group of whatever size and scope is opposed by a group of equal size and scope) and affiliation solidarity (always support those closer against those more distant). On the positive side, these pervasive structural principles support a decentralized social and political system based upon individual independence, autonomy, liberty, equality, and responsibility. But on the negative side, Salzman notes a pattern of contingent partisan loyalties, which results in an inbred orientation favoring particularism: an attitude of my tribe against the other tribe, my ethnic group against the different ethnic group, my religious community against another religious community. For each affiliation, there is always an enemy. Salzman argues that the particularism of Middle Eastern culture precludes universalism, rule of law, and constitutionalism, which all involve the measuring of actions against general criteria, irrespective of the affiliation of the particular actors. The result of this relentless partisan framework of thought has been the apparently unending conflict, both internal and external, that characterizes the modern Middle East.Trade Review"While tribalism is in one sense culturally pervasive in the Middle East, tribal practices are less swathed in sacredness than explicitly Koranic symbols and commandments--and are therefore more susceptible to criticism and debate. Even jihad and suicide bombing can be interpreted through a tribal lens. We've taught ourselves a good deal about Islam over the past seven years. Yet tribalism is at least half the cultural battle in the Middle East, and the West knows little about it. Learning how to understand and critique the Islamic Near East through a tribal lens will open up a new and smarter strategy for change. The way to begin is by picking up Salzman's Culture and Conflict in the Middle East." -- Stanley Kurtz, Weekly Standard, 14th April 2008. "Salzman has made an important contribution that is must reading." --Jewish Voice and Opinion, Englewood, NJ, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Making a Living in the Middle East: Life in the Valleys, Deserts, and Mountains; Friends and Enemies: Security and Defence in the Middle East; Defence and Offence: Honour and Rank in the Middle East; Turning Toward the World: Tribal Organisation and Predatory Expansion; Tribe and State: The Dynamics of Incompatibility; Root Causes: The Middle East Today and Tomorrow; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and intelligence services with loyalist paramilitaries of the UDA & UVF throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Covert British Army units, mass sectarian screening, propaganda ‘dirty tricks,’ arming sectarian killers and a point-blank refusal over the worst two decades of the conflict, to outlaw the largest loyalist killer gang in Northern Ireland. It shows how tactics such as curfew and internment were imposed on the nationalist population in Northern Ireland and how London misled the European Commission over internment’s one-sided nature. It focuses particularly on the British Government’s refusal to proscribe the UDA for two decades – probably the most serious abdication of the rule of law in the entire conflict. Previously classified documents show a clear pattern of official denial, at the highest levels of government, of the extent and impact of the loyalist assassination campaign.

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research conducted in a town on the Polish-Belarussian border, this book examines borders and the lingering echoes of conflict. Using hauntology as a guiding framework to understand how people live amidst the histories and reverberations of conflicts, the author investigates the role that landscape, with its material presences and absences, plays in evoking and maintaining the border. The ethnography probes themes of ethnicity, religious practice, memory and space, investigating the border as a dynamic social process. By immersing herself in the everyday lives of the borderland, Joyce unravels how traces – lingering imprints of the past – shape local relationships in the present, influencing shared understandings of history and the future. Introducing the concept of the spectral border as a lens to reveal the ambiguous presence of afterlives and memories tied to a historical boundary, the book unveils its present-day ghostly forms in the local ideas and practices of neighbourliness at the heart of borderland identity. Spectral Borders interrogates the use and limitations of these practices by exploring points of tension, where the meanings and uses of ‘being a neighbour’ and ‘being from the borderland’ are tested and challenged. In doing so, the book raises important questions about how conviviality is created and managed in a place with a long and unresolved history marked by ethnic and religious violence, war, and civil unrest.Trade ReviewJoyce has written a layered and nuanced ethnography of a formerly little-known Polish borderland. While tragic events have recently brought the region to world attention, she shows that the Polish–Belarus border has long been politicized, as it has shifted between different nations. The book focuses on the hauntings that underlie much of the social, religious and cultural life of the region: the spectres of religious conflicts played out in contested spaces by Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox institutions and actors, and ofa large Jewish community now all but disappeared. Joyce explores the complex relations local people have with the forest, a place full of secret histories as well as environmentalminitiatives, tourist trails, local foragers and more clandestine economic practices. The border follows the River Bug, also a site where traces of past conflicts lurk below the surface, easily evoked by present occurrences. This beautifully written book, moving easily between anthropology and history, in a dialogue between vivid ethnography and sophisticated theory, deserves to be read by anyone interested in the region, or in memory, place and landscape, and the complex social worlds that encompass and make them.Frances Pine, Emerita Reader in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London; This monograph is a fascinating read, offering a fresh and original perspective on the complex cultural landscape of the Polish-Belarusian borderland. The concept of spectral borders is presented with particular ethnographic sensitivity and offers an engaging and elegant literary narrative.Justyna Straczuk, Associate Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Around the kitchen table: neighbours and spectres; Chapter 1 – The House of Culture: working with fragments, traces and absences; Chapter 2 – The Bug Cycle Path: the border as a tourist destination; Chapter 3 – Boundary markers: spectral borders in eastern Poland; Chapter 4 – The Church of the Holy Spirit: contested churches and religious borders; Chapter 5 – The iron gate: ruins, absence and uncanny façades; Chapter 6 – The basilica: pilgrimage, presence and co-presence; Conclusion – construction sites; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special attention to the story of the vanquished, to the situation of women, to the behavior of the Military Orders toward captives, and to the image of the captive in Crusader literature, in the context of making war and peace.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2002 Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize (awarded every year for an outstanding publication in the field of Land of Israel studies in memory of the second president of the State of Israel, Izhak Ben-Zvi). '...a very welcome addition to the scholarly literature not only on the crusades but on the practice of medieval warfare in general.' Alan V. Murray, Crusades, 2006. ‘…un livre indéniablement remarquable…‘ Leo Carruthers, Le Moyen Age, 2003. ‘Friedman advances a bold thesis and brings forward an impressive array of evidence to support it.‘ James A. Brundage, The International History Review, 2002.Table of ContentsTables and Illustrations Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. The First Encounters – Crusaders Face Captivity 2. Prisoners of War in the Levant 3. The Western Legacy 4. Later Encounters 5. Life in Captivity 6. The Way out of Captivity 7. Weak and Violated? The Experience of Women 8. Charity and Prestige – The Military Orders and the Ransom of Captives 9. Shameful Failure or Romantic Hero – Images of Captivity 10. Ransom on Both Sides of the Mediterranean Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs Adolf Hitler strategised his way to power, he knew that it was necessary to gain the support of theology and the Church. This study begins two hundred years earlier, however, looking at roots of theological anti-Semitism and how Jews and Judaism were constructed, positively and negatively, in the biblical interpretation of German Protestant theology. Following the two main streams of German theology, the salvation-historical and the Enlightenment-oriented traditions, it examines leading exegetes from the 1750s to the 1950s and explores how theology legitimises or delegitimises oppression of Jews, in part through still-prevailing paradigms. This is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, and the result of the analysis of the interplay between biblical exegesis and attitudes to Jews and Judaism is a fascinating and often frightening portrait of theology as a servant of power.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism PART I: ENLIGHTENMENT EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS Introduction The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis From Deism to de Wette Johann Salomo Semler: Dejudaising Christianity Johann Gottfried Herder: The Volk Concept and the Jews F. D. E. Schleiermacher: Enlightenment Religion and Judaism W. M. L. de Wette: Judaism as Degenerated Hebraism The Jews in Enlightenment Exegesis from Baur to Ritschl Ferdinand Christian Baur: Judaism as an Historical Antipode of Christianity David Friedrich Strauss: Judaism in Continuity and Discontinuity with Christianity Albrecht Ritschl: Kulturprotestantismus and the Jews The History of Religions School and the Jews—An Historical Turn? PART II: SALVATION-HISTORICAL EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS: FROM THOLUCK TO SCHLATTER Introduction Philo-Semitism Friedrich August Tholuck: “Salvation Comes from the Jews” Johann Tobias Beck: Organic Continuity Between Judaism and Christianity Franz Delitzsch: Pioneering Scholarship in Judaism Hermann Leberecht Strack: Missions to and Defence of Jews Adolf Schlatter and Judaism: Great Erudition and Fierce Opposition PART III: THE FORM CRITICS AND THE JEWS Introduction Karl Ludwig Schmidt: A Chosen People and a ‘Jewish Problem’ Martin Dibelius: Ambivalence to Jews and Judaism Rudolf Bultmann: Liberal and Anti-Jewish PART IV: NAZI EXEGESIS AND THE JEWS Introduction Gerhard Kittel: Jewish Unheil Theologically Founded Walter Grundmann: Towards a Non-Jewish Jesus Concluding Analysis

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Book SynopsisWithin Western Buddhism, practitioners are often assumed to be white and middle-class. Based in ground-breaking empirical research, Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism explores the stories of Buddhists from minority communities, through a rich analysis of their lived experiences. Smith, Munt and Yip explore their various contestations of dominant white and heteronormative cultures in Western Buddhism. Using cosmopolitanism as the theoretical lens, Cosmopolitan Dharma argues convincingly that the Buddhist ethos of human interconnectivity needs to be further developed to truly embrace the ‘Other’ of different kinds (not least Western Buddhism’s own internal ‘Others’). Cosmopolitan Dharma, through Buddhists’ own narratives, explores how cultural politics from the ground up can offer a more inclusive philosophy and lived experience of spirituality.Trade Review"Cosmopolitan Dharma is a trailblazing work that helps bring Buddhist studies into engagement with the fields of globalization, transnationalism, critical race theory, and gender theory... In addition to being one of a handful of works that critically address the ways that Buddhism is racialized, gendered, sexed, and classed, Cosmopolitan Dharma is also the only academic monograph that seriously investigates black Buddhist discourse." Adeana McNicholl, Stanford University, Reading Religion (2016) "This work provides an absolutely up to date, cutting edge analysis […] So far as I am aware race, gender and class have never been used as the primary analytical category for examining Western Buddhism, which is what makes this work so distinctive." Damien Keown, Goldsmiths University of London "Using a substantial body of in-depth qualitative ethnographic data collected by Sharon E. Smith on two of the largest convert Buddhist movements in the UK, Sally R. Munt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip have provided a detailed analysis of the experiences of the people of colour and LGBTQI people within the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) and the Soka Gakkai International-UK (SKI-UK). They provide a compelling account of the ways in which FWBO and SKI-UK have been shaped by race, gender, class, sexuality, and heteronormative whiteness. [...] This important book provides an excellent model on how to move forward towards a more productive engagement with issues of cultural politics within religious movements in cosmopolitan-urban areas. It is a must-read for religious studies scholars and students alike, as well as Buddhist lay practitioners of colour and LGBTQI practitioners." Fr. Joseph Cheah, University of Saint Joseph

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Book SynopsisReligion can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution seeks to clarify the causes of religious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India. These students in varying degrees attribute conflict to force-driven causes, namely to coercive power as a means of achieving the economic, political or socio-cultural goals of religious groups. The study reveals how force-driven religious conflict is influenced by prescriptive beliefs like religious practice and mystical experience, and descriptive beliefs such as the interpretation of religious plurality and religiocentrism. It also elaborates on the practical consequences of the salient findings for the educational process.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.Trade ReviewChapter One, Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions by Adam G. Beaver is the winner of the 2017 Bishko Prize for best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize is awarded by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors 0. Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal Part I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History 1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History Adam G. Beaver 2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain Valeria López Fadul 4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent Cécile Vincent-Cassy Part II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism 5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic Embryology Pier Mattia Tommasino 6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés Ryan Szpiech 7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García Teresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska 8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century Gerard A. Wiegers Part III: Conversion and Perplexity 9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct Jessica J. Fowler 10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia Stefania Pastore 11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia Mercedes García-Arenal 12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine Seth Kimmel 13. True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy Felipe Pereda Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisIn Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.Trade Review“Bacciagaluppi’s work is a testament to the type of musicological work that can be done on archival records, and it will become a valuable reference for those interested in the ramifications of societal polarisation.” Timothy Duguid, University of Glasgow. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 664-666.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Music Examples List of Archival Sources Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Music in the Confessional Age 2 Approaching the Other 3 The Book Market 4 The ‘Collegia Musica’ 5 Conclusions: Music as an Agent of Toleration?

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Book SynopsisFears and stories about an underground religion devoted to Satan, which demands and carries out child sacrifice, appeared in the United States in the late twentieth century and became the subject of media reports supported by some mental health professionals. Examining these modern fantasies leads us back to ancient stories which in some cases believers consider the height of religious devotion. Horrifying ideas about human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father appear repeatedly in Western traditions, starting with the Greeks and the Hebrews. In Flesh and Blood: Interrogating Freud on Human Sacrifice, Real and Imagined, Beit-Hallahmi focuses on rituals of violence tied to religion, both imagined and real. The main focus of this work is the meaning of blood and ritual killing in the history of religion. The book examines the encounter with the idea of child sacrifice in the context of human hopes for salvation.

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Book SynopsisOn 9 July 1860 CE, an outbreak of violence in the inner-city Christian quarter of Damascus created shock waves locally and internationally. This book provides a step-by-step presentation of events and issues to assess the true role of all the players and shapers of events. It critically examines the internal and external politico-socio-economic factors involved and argues that economic interests rather than religious fanaticism were the main causes for the riot of 1860. Furthermore, it argues that the riot was not a sudden eruption but rather a planned and organised affair.Trade Review...[...] “It’s not often that a doctoral thesis can be so eminently readable and draw readers into the investigation as well as any whodunnit! Who was responsible and what were their motives? And why be interested in this subject today? …..We should be grateful to Dr Rana for such a convincing analysis of events in the 1860s which are still part of the collective memory of many Christians in Lebanon and Syria today.” [...] Rev Colin Chapman, The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/resources/book-reviews/rana-abu-mounes-muslim-christian-relations-in-damascus-amid-the-1860-riot-brill-2022Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1 Early Nineteenth-Century Damascus  1 Introduction  2 Geography  3 Religions, Ethnicities and Cultures  4 Politics  5 Military Forces  6 The City Quarters  7 Agriculture, Industry and Trade  8 Administration  9 Conclusion 2 The Impact of the Reform Schemes on Damascus  1 Introduction  2 The Pre-Tanzimat Period, 1832–1839  3 The Tanzimat Period, 1839–1876  4 Local Attitudes  5 Conclusion 3 The Impact of the Foreign Powers’ Intervention on Damascus during the Reform Period  1 Introduction  2 The Level of Intervention  3 The Impact on Local Society  4 Conclusion 4 The 1860 Riot in Damascus  1 Introduction  2 Prelude to the Riot  3 The Riot  4 The Circulation of Rumours  5 Local Perceptions of the Riot  6 Conclusion 5 The Ottoman Governor-General of Damascus, Ahmad Pasha, and the 1860 Riot  1 Introduction  2 The Role of Ahmad Pasha and the Regular Troops  3 Conclusion 6 The Notables of Damascus and the 1860 Riot  1 Introduction  2 The Role of the al-Aghawat and the Irregular Troops  3 The Role of the Notables  4 The Role of ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Jaza‌ʾiri  5 Conclusion 7 The Aftermath of the 1860 Riot in Damascus  1 Introduction  2 Foreign Responses  3 The Arrival of Fuʾad Pasha  4 Conclusion 8 The British–Ottoman Relations after the 1860 Riot in Damascus  1 Introduction  2 The British–Ottoman Relations after the Riot  3 The British Diplomats’ Perceptions of the Riot  4 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: The Hatti Şerif of Gülhane Appendix 2: Sultan ʿAbdülmecid’s Hatti Hümayun Reaffirming the Privileges and Immunities of the Non-Muslim Communities Appendix 3: The Treaty of Peace (Paris) Terminating the Crimean War, with Pertinent Annexed Conventions Appendix 4: Convention on Measures for Pacifying Syria (and Lebanon): Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire Appendix 5: Letters Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book includes the whole transcription of the trial of a converted Muslim (Morisco) from Toledo, condemned to die at the stake at the beginning of the 17th century. In their study of the trial, the authors address the question of how and to what extent Inquisition documents can be used as an historical source by contextualizing and analysing its multifaceted aspects as well as its protagonists and participants, victim, witnesses, and inquisitors. The authors elucidate the beliefs and practices of the culprit, situating his ordeal in the framework of Morisco life and its connections with North African Islam. By so doing they shed light on questions of Inquisitorial procedure, witnessing and testimony, the extent of confession, the effects of life in prison, the relations of trust between inmates and the consequences of isolation.Trade Review"[Jerónimo de Rojas’s] sentence to the stake was opposed by the most senior and experienced of his interrogators, but the Supreme Council of the Inquisition overrode his opinion. As García-Arenal and Sánchez-Blanco point out, this was a moment when the attitude of the Spanish government to the Moriscos was hardening while preparations were being made for their expulsion in 1609. The execution of Jerónimo de Rojas is one of a number of dramatic episodes pointing towards the final tragedy, and the edition of his trial is an important contribution to our knowledge of a grim moment in Spanish history." - Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute, London). Journal of Ecclesiastical History 74 (2023): 193–4.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments IX List of IllustrationsI Introduction 1 Jerónimo de Rojas before the Tribunal  1.1 First Stage: Defiance  1.2 Second Stage: Collapse  1.3 The Trial History of Rojas’s Family and Others Denounced by Enríquez 2 The Scene and the Protagonists  2.1 Jerónimo de Rojas  2.2 Fray Hernando de Santiago  2.3 Villarín, the Bigamist from Galicia  2.4 Francisco Enríquez, the Informer  2.5 Officers of the Inquisition  2.6 The Scene: Toledo in the Time of Rojas 3 The Moriscos  3.1 From the Conversions to the War of the Alpujarras (1501–1570)  3.2 The War of the Alpujarras  3.3 From the War of the Alpujarras to Philip III’s Early Reign  3.4 The Political Shift of Philip III’s Early Reign 4 The Inquisition  4.1 Harsh Repression by the Tribunals of Granada, Zaragoza, and Valencia  4.2 Activity of the Llerena Tribunal  4.3 The Toledo Tribunal  4.4 The Limits of the Holy Office 5 The Conversations in Prison  5.1 Life in Prison  5.2 Rojas’s Religious Beliefs and Practices  5.3 Abentute or Ibn Tūda  5.4 Al-Hajarī 6 The Granadan Forgeries, Miguel de Luna, and the Religious Polemic  6.1 The Parchment and the Lead Books of the Sacromonte in Granada  6.2 Miguel de Luna  6.3 Religious Polemic  6.4 Muhamad Alguazir, Pastrana, and Ocaña  6.5 Juan Pérez 7 Secret Prisons and Letters  7.1 The Sequence of Events and Papers  7.2 The Language of the Letters and Rojas’s Knowledge of Christianity 8 Conclusions 9 The Trial Transcript  1 Introductory Note  2 Denunciation and Imprisonment  3 Rojas’s Communications and Letters  4 Witness Statements  5 Statements by Jerónimo de Rojas  6 The Accusation  7 Response to the Accusation  8 Publication of the Witness Statements  9 Response to the Publication of the Witness Statements  10 Written Defense  11 Second Publication of the Witness Statements  12 Vote on the Case  13 Torture  14 The Sentence  15 Establishment of the Date of the Crime Bibliography

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