السجلات العثمانية لغير المسلمين في الولايات العربية

Abstract

Historical Documents indicates that the Ottoman Empire’s relation with its Christian subjects had more of an administrative or legal nature rather than an ideological one. Although this administration was just one of many aspects of the relations between the Ottoman Christian communities and the state, studying the legal decrees issued by Ottoman governors can be essential to understanding how the Empire itself viewed these relations. In doing so, a researcher can easily distinguish between the policy of the central Ottoman government and that of the local governors of the Empire subdivisions.