Becoming Catholic, remaining Syrian: the case of Hindiyya UjaymiThe ubiquitous Catholic merchant -- The changing fortunes of the region's Jewish merchants and the beginning of sectarian dissonance -- Finding allies in the long eighteenth century -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 Intercommunal dissonance in the nineteenth century -- The Tanzimat and the attempt to create a civic Ottomanism'' (Osmanlilik) -- Merchants, revisited -- Missionaries and teachers: a light unto the East'' -- Muslim reaction: a tale of two cities -- Conclusion Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration and terms -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The limits of tolerance: the social status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Arab lands -- The roots of difference: ahl al-dhimma -- Ambiguities of inter-confessional relations in Ottoman society -- Christians and Jews in a Muslim world: the record of the qadi courts and the central state archives -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 The Ottoman Arab world: a diversity of sects and peoples CHAPTER 6 After the events'': the search for community in the twilight of empireOttomanism and Arabism -- Becoming Ottoman in Aleppo -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION The changing boundaries of political community in the Ottoman Arab world -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Achives -- Published -- Unpublished -- Secondary sources -- Published -- Unpublished -- Index Masters explores the evolution of Christian and Jewish communities in the Ottoman empire over four hundred years. Early communities lived with the hierarchy of Muslim law, but the nineteenth century marked the beginning of tensions between Muslims and Christians and the twentieth-century rhetoric of religious fundamentalism The sectarian landscape of the Ottoman Arab landsHow many? -- Ta'ifa or millet? -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 Merchants and missionaries in the seventeenth century: the West intrudes -- Trade and the creation of a Christian bourgeoisie -- Between Constantinople and Rome: the emergence of a Catholic Arab people -- The traditionalist counter-reformation'' -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 New opportunities and challenges in the long'' eighteenth century -- Millet wars: from repression to establishment -- The Melkite Catholic millet | 
