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Introduction The limits of tolerance: the social status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Arab lands The Ottoman Arab world: a diversity of sects and peoples Merchants and missionaries in the seventeenth century: the West intrudes New opportunities and challenges in the 'long' eighteenth century Intercommunal dissonance in the nineteenth century After the 'events': the search for community in the twilight of empire Conclusion.
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