Islam and nationalism in modern Greece, 1821-1940
In: Religion and global politics
In: Oxford scholarship online
Drawing from a wide range of archival and secondary Greek, Bulgarian, Ottoman, and Turkish sources, this book explores the way in which the Muslim populations of Greece were ruled by state authorities from the time of Greece's political emancipation from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s until the country's entrance into the Second World War, in October 1940. The book examines how state rule influenced the development of the Muslim population's collective identity as a minority and affected Muslim relations with the Greek authorities and Orthodox Christians.