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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The Armenian villagers of Musa Dagh: A historical-ethnographic study, 1840-1915 Abstract: Armenian villagers inhabited Musa Dagh, a mountain situated some 20 kilometers to the southwest of the biblical town of Antioch, from time immemorial. They would have been relegated to oblivion as an insignificant lot had Franz Werfel not immortalized their saga during the 1915 Armenian genocide in a novel entitled The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933). Despite the book's enormous popularity, hitherto no serious study has been made depicting the actual collective biography of the Armenians of Musa Dagh. The following is such an attempt, covering the period between 1840, when the first American Protestant missionaries set foot on Musa Dagh, and 1915, when the resistance to the Ottoman policy of deportation took place. The various archival and other primary sources utilized reveal that during those seventy-five years the Musa Daghians underwent transformation in economic, religious, educational, and national-political matters, however difficult, small, or slow. Particularly, the attempts of the Armenian Apostolic church to reform itself, the inroads of American evangelists and European Catholic missionaries, the resultant drive in the establishment of schools, and the appearance of revolutionary societies within the framework of national awakening served as the main catalysts in the villagers' transition from isolation and utter ignorance to a discernible degree of individual and collective self-consciousness culminating in the majority's resolve to stand up against tyranny. Further investigation in the Ottoman archives might be useful in elucidating various moot points particularly in the socio-economic domain and Armenian-Turkish relations. |
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