Talbot, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7198-1422 (2025) "What might happen at the hands of an enraged populace?" Justifying intolerance in Ottoman Algiers. In: Morikawa, Tomoko and Shimada, Ryutō, (eds.) The Source of Intolerance: Perceptions and Practices. Brill. (In Press)

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Abstract

The Ottoman North African Regencies have had a reputation in Western historiography as a place of piracy, violence, and intolerance. More recent scholarship has taken a more sympathetic and nuanced view, highlighting the great ports of Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers as cosmopolitan centres of trade, scholarship, and diplomacy. The presence of large numbers of Jews and Christians, Ottomans and non-Ottomans, points to a degree of tolerance in a complex geopolitical setting. The treaties signed between the rulers of Algiers and foreign powers centred on equality and reciprocity. However, violence and forms of intolerance were undeniably a part of life and socio-political relations within and outside the Ottoman North African states. This paper will focus on a specific incident in the history of Ottoman Algiers, the execution of the French consul Jean Le Vacher and other members of the French community in Algiers in 1683. By examining Algerian narratives in Ottoman Turkish concerning this incident, this paper will explore intolerance presented as response or reaction rather than as a system, and examine the use of the language of emotions employed to justify violence.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ottoman Algiers, intolerance, diplomacy
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D890 Eastern Hemisphere D History General and Old World > DT Africa
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2025 09:56
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/51562

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