"With a new introduction."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index.

Introduction / Benjamin Braude -- Transformation of Zimmi into Askerî / İ. Metin Kunt -- Foundation myths of the Millet system / Benjamin Braude -- The rise of the Armenian patriarchate of Constantinople / Kevork B. Bardakjian -- Ottoman policy toward the Jews and Jewish attitudes toward the Ottomans during the fifteenth century / Joseph R. Hacker -- The Greek Millet in the Ottoman Empire / Richard Clogg -- The dual role of the Armenian Amira class within the Ottoman government and the Armenian Millet / Hagop Barsoumian -- Foreign merchants and the minorities in Istanbul during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Robert Mantran -- The transformation of the economic position of the Millets in the nineteenth century / Charles Issawi -- The Millets as agents of change in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire / Roderic H. Davison -- The acid test of Ottomanism : the acceptance of non-Muslims in the late Ottoman bureaucracy / Carter V. Findley -- Communal conflict in Ottoman Syria during the reform era: the role of political and economic factors / Moshe Ma'oz -- Communal conflict in nineteenth-century Lebanon / Samir Khalaf -- Unionist relations with the Greek, Armenian, and Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914 / Feroz Ahmad -- The political situation of the Copts, 1798-1923 / Doris Behrens-Abouseif.