Muslim Converts to Christian Orthodoxy

This chapter explores the reasons that led many Muslims to convert to Christian Orthodoxy during the Greek War of Independence and the way their conversions were treated by the Greek civil and ecclesiastical authorities. The chapter assesses the efforts made by Muslim families separated by the war to reunite with missing Muslim and neophyte family members after the end of the war, as well as the measures taken by the administration of Ioannis Kapodistrias to help family reunification efforts and support economically destitute neophyte. This chapter also discusses legal disputes over property issues between Muslim and neophyte family members in eastern Roúmeli and on the island of Euboea. In addition, it explores the measures taken by the Greek government to solve these disputes, and looks at whether sharia law and the Ottoman legal code were taken into consideration by the courts and the Greek authorities. Did solutions for Muslim property disputes in eastern Roúmeli and on Euboea t...