Religious identity shaped which rebellions were thinkable in the Ottoman Empire

Evidence

It was one thing for Greek Christian subjects to rebel against the Ottoman authority, but quite another thing for a Muslim vali to rebel against the Defender of the Faith. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 235

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Doctrinal inflexibility within Orthodoxy undermined defense against the Ottomans — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople: A Critical…, 24; The same ideals drove Christian Ottoman rebels and Muslim anti-colonial rebels — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 689; Ottomans were seen as a political threat rather than a religious one — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 76 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Doctrinal inflexibility within Orthodoxy undermined defense against the Ottomans — Ali Qureshi, The Fall of Constantinople: A Critical…, 24; The same ideals drove Christian Ottoman rebels and Muslim anti-colonial rebels — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 689; Ottomans were seen as a political threat rather than a religious one — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 76 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Greek Revolution shifted Middle Eastern identity politics from religious to national affiliation #complicates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3473
• The same ideals drove Christian Ottoman rebels and Muslim anti-colonial rebels #complicates (0.78) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 689
• Non-Turkish Ottoman subjects served as carriers of Western-derived national ideas #complicates (0.78) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2014