An Overview of Catholic Jewish Relations in the Ottoman Jerusalem (16th century) Cover Image

Osmanlı Kudüsü’nde Katolik-Yahudi Münasebetlerine Bir Bakış (XVI. Yüzyıl)
An Overview of Catholic Jewish Relations in the Ottoman Jerusalem (16th century)

Author(s): Mustafa Öksüz
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Political history, History of Judaism, 16th Century, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Identity
Published by: Muhammed Mustafa KULU
Keywords: Jews; Christians; Jerusalem; the Ottoman Empire; the Catholic-Jewish relations;

Summary/Abstract: Witnessing radical attitudes of the Catholic Spain and Portugal, large groups of the Jews abandoned their countries and sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century. The Ottoman Tahrir data at hand shows that some of the refugee Jews, came to the region to settle especially in the Safed. Based on the Ottoman court records, this paper aims to discuss various aspects of the Catholic-Jewish relations in the Ottoman Jerusalem in the sixteenth century.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 27-41
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Turkish