Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo

Update: 2016-09-04

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with Elyse Semerdjian

hosted by Chris Gratien

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The changing of one's religion may be viewed today as a matter of personal spirituality or identity, but as the historiography of the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere increasingly shows, conversion was often a public act with political, socioeconomic, and gendered components. In this episode, Elyse Semerdjian returns to the podcast to discuss her research on conversion in early modern Aleppo and how women sometimes utilized the act of conversion (or non-conversion) and the legal structures of the Ottoman Empire to gain the upper hand in familial and economic matters.

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Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo