Non-Sunni Muslims in The Late Ottoman Empire: State and Missionary Perceptions of the Alawis

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nDedication\nEpigraph\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nCONTENTS\nFIGURES\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nA NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION\nI NTRODUCTION\n	State of research about the Alawis and other non-Sunni groups based on Ottoman sources\n	Sources and research questions\nChapter 1 THE NUSAYRIS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: A `HETERODOX’ TRIBAL COMMUNITY AND THE STATE\n	1.1. The Nusayri-Alawis: Beliefs and history\n	1.2. The Ottoman Nusayris: Geography, Social Structure and Authority\n	1.3. The status of the Nusayris in the Ottoman political system\nChapter 2 `APPROPRIATE OBJECTS OF CHRISTIAN BENEVOLENCE\': PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES AND THE NUSAYRIS\n	2.1. Protestant American millenarian dreams in the nineteenth century\n	2.2. Mission among heterodox groups: the Alevis and Druze\n	2.3. Harvesting the souls of the Nusayris\nChapter 3 ABDÜLHAMID II’S CIVILIZING MISSION AND THE POLICY OF ‘ CORRECTION OF BELIEF(S)’\n	3.1. The roots of ‘correction of belief(s)’ and conversion campaigns until the nineteenth century\n	3.2. Correcting the beliefs of the Bektaşis after 1826\n	3.3. The ‘fine tuning’ of the state during the Tanzimat and the reign of Abdülhamid II\n	3.4. Fighting for the Nusayri soul in the Hamidian era\nChapter 4 THE NUSAYRIS UNDER YOUNG TURK RULE (1908-1918)\n	4.1. The double-edged sword of the Young Turk Revolution\n	4.2. Protestant missionary efforts among the Nusayris\n	4.3. Muslim responses to Protestant missionary work\n	4.4. Late Ottoman official perceptions of non-Sunnis: the case of the Beirut province\n	4.5. The Nusayris in the Province of Beirut\nCONCLUSION\nNOTES\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nINDEX