Aude Aylin de Tapia, Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia: Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside, 1839–1923, Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies 9 (Brill: Leiden, 2023).

Book Presentation
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 19:00
Orient-Institut Istanbul

Presentation: the author, Aude Aylin de Tapia
Discussant: Stefo Benlisoy
Moderation: Christoph K. Neumann
Language: English

This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims in late-Ottoman Cappadocia. Based on various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources, the study proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It investigates questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing and collective production of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to observe everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.

The book presentation takes place in cooperation of the Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA) and the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

Aude Aylin de Tapia is a junior professor of Turkish Studies in the Department of Oriental Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) since 2020. After completing her doctoral thesis in 2016 in a joint supervision between EHESS (Cetobac) and Boğaziçi University (Atatürk Institute), she has worked as an archivist at Boğaziçi University and later as a postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille University before being appointed in Freiburg. Her research focuses mainly on Christian communities and their religious and cultural heritage in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.

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