"Difference and Tolerance in the Ottoman Empire
SEHR, volume 5, issue 1: Contested Polities
interview by Nancy Reynolds
Aron Rodrigue [*] :Difference and Tolerance in the Ottoman Empire
While it certainly changed over its five-hundred-year existence, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most remarkable historical examples of coexistence among different religious and social groups. It has become increasingly difficult, however, for late-twentieth-century scholars in the West to imagine the kind of political system that existed in the Ottoman Empire, which can be characterized as neither absolutist rule nor secular nation-state."
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