Figures Anonymes, Figures D'élite

Gorgias Press, LLC, Feb 25, 2011 - History - 215 pages

This collection of papers by scholars from universities in France, Germany and Switzerland explores the complexity of Ottoman identity. By studying families and individuals with marginal backgrounds, it nuances the image of the Homo Ottomanicus.

About the author

Berernard Heyberger is a Professor at the Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Socials and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris. At present he is the Director of the Institut d'etude de l'Islam et des Societes du Monde Musulman at the Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Socials. He has lived several times in Syria, Lebanon and Italy and is the author of several publications on the social history of the Eastern Christians in the Ottoman era.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Figures Anonymes, Figures D'élite; Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Compiled by: Meropi Anastassiadou, Bernard Heyberger
• Publisher: Gorgias Press, LLC, 2011
• ISBN: 1611437415, 9781611437416
• Length: 215 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / General; History / World