Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire by Selim Deringil

Author:Selim Deringil [Deringil, Selim]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781139515832
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

According to the Armenian sources, it appears that for a long time after his conversion Harutyun/Emin Efendi led a double life:

‘A pseudo-Muslim Emin Efendi, as an Achabahyan, served the altar of the Ach [i.e., the Reliquary containing the relics of St-Gregory the Illuminator’s right hand] which the Achabans [i.e., custodians of the Reliquary] had not removed after the Ach had been moved to the Monastery, during the reign of Catholicos Teodoros. . . . They had assigned a special room for the Ach, and had erected an altar in the image of Lusavorich [i.e., St. Gregory the Illuminator] and an ever-burning lamp. Emin Efendi personally attended the altar and the ever burning lamp, and prayed there alone. . . . Bishop Giragos Pekmezian, once reviled this pseudo-Muslim spitting on him and telling him ‘you destroyed your future for a woman, otherwise you were a man worthy of becoming catholicos’. Those who knew him have characterized this former bishop as an opportunist and a hypocrite.’119

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