The Pasha of Buda and the Edict of Torda: Transylvanian Unitarian/Islamic Ottoman Cultural Enmeshment and the Development of Religious Tolerance.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ritchie, Susan
- Source
- Journal of Unitarian Universalist History. 2005, Vol. 30, p36-54. 19p.
- Subject
- *ISLAM
*UNITARIANISM
*RELIGIOUS tolerance
*LITERATURE
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-0195
The article focuses on the influence of Ottoman Islam on Unitarian development and the development of religious tolerance Transylvania, Romania. Suggestion of author George Huntston that the Ottoman policy of religious tolerance was a political means of preserving and developing local divisions that would improve their own control; Attempt to dismiss Unitarianism as a form of Islam; Documentation of the connection between Transylvanian Unitarianism and Ottoman Islamic influence by the literature of the anti-Socianian movements of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe.