Giaour
Giaour or Gawur or Gavour (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".; from Template:Langx gâvor;Template:Efn Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Bosnian; kaur/đaur) meaning "infidel", is a slur used mostly in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire for non-Muslims or, more particularly, Christians in the Balkans.[1][2]
Terminology
The terms "kafir", "gawur", and "rûm" (the last meaning "Rum millet") were commonly used in defters (tax registries) for Orthodox Christians, usually without ethnic distinction. Christian ethnic groups in the Balkan lands of the Ottoman Empire included Greeks (rûm), Bulgarians (bulgar), Serbs (sırp), Albanians (arnavut) and Vlachs (eflak), among others.[2]
The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica described the term as follows: Template:Quote
During the Tanzimat (1839–1876) era, a hatt-i humayun prohibited the use of the term by Muslims with reference to non-Muslims[3] to prevent problems occurring in social relationships.[4]Template:Qn
European cultural references
- Giaour is the name given to the evil monster of a man in the tale Vathek, written by William Beckford in French in 1782 and translated into English soon after. The spelling Giaour appears in the French as well as in the English translation.[5]
- In 1813 Lord Byron published his poem The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale, whose themes revolve around the ideas of love, death, and afterlife in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
- Le Giaour, an 1832 painting by Ary Scheffer, oil on canvas, "Musée de la Vie romantique", Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris.
- Sonnet XL of Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning contains these lines:
Musselmans and Giaours
Throw kerchiefs at a smile, and have no ruth
For any weeping.
See also
- Gabr, Persian equivalent
- Kafir, Arabic equivalent
- Dhimmi
- Rayah
- Guiri is Spanish slang for a foreign tourist. According to Juan Goytisolo, it is derived from Turkish gâvur.[6]
Notes
References
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Bibliography
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