Author
Ekrem Akman
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 2148-3264, EISSN: 2687-427X, DOI: 10.34247/artukluakademi.888736
Record ID
cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_b3ecc338507e40109210deaf4b356af5
Library Location
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Notes
Midyat was the center of the region defined as Tur Abdin, where Yakubi/Assyrian Christians were in majority until the late 19th century. In the region, Muslims, Christians and Yazidis spoke Syriac, Kurdish, Arabic (Mahallemi) and Armenian and developed cross-relationship networks with their different religious and ethnic identities in the ordinary course of daily life. Muslims and Christians in Midyat and its surroundings created areas of conflict and alliance over different and partly relative identities such as language, sect and tribe. However, as can be seen in this study called "Conversion/Apostasy Movements in Multi-Identity Societies and Women's Marriage with the "Other": Midyat Example", all these hypothetical identities can be abandoned when it comes to women's conversion to religion and marriage, thus gathering the masses around a religion or sect. In this study, the effects of conversion and marriages of women after changing their religion on the relationships will be examined in the context of the social structure of Midyat, which became the district center with the Tanzimat. In the article, it is claimed that in multi-identity social relations, religious conversion and women's marriages with the "other" are perceived as a direct attack on the honor of the community, are evaluated as symbolic victory or defeat, and turn into religious conflicts and alliances between communities, specifically in Midyat.
Görüntüle
Artuklu Akademi, 2021-06, Vol.8 (1), p.51-75
