The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt

The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781351859554
ISBN-13 : 1351859552
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt by : Elizabeth H Shlala

Law and identification transgressed political boundaries in the nineteenth-century Levant. Over the course of the century, Italo-Levantines- elite and common- exercised a strategy of resilient hybridity whereby an unintentional form of legal imperialism took root in Egypt. This book contributes to a vibrant strand of global legal history that places law and other social structures at the heart of competing imperial projects- British, Ottoman, Egyptian, and Italian among them. Analysis of the Italian consular and mixed court cases, and diplomatic records, in Egypt and Istanbul reveals the complexity of shifting identifications and judicial reform in two parts of the interactive and competitive plural legal regime. The rich court records show that binary relational categories fail to capture the complexity of the daily lives of the residents and courts of the late Ottoman empire. Over time and acting in their own self-interests, these actors exploited the plural legal regime. Case studies in both Egypt and Istanbul explore how identification developed as a legal form of property itself. Whereas the classical literature emphasized external state power politics, this book builds upon new work in the field that shows the interaction of external and internal power struggles throughout the region led to assorted forms of confrontation, collaboration, and negotiation in the region. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and readers of Middle East, Ottoman, and Mediterranean history. It will also appeal to anyone wanting to know more about cultural history in the nineteenth century, and the historical roots of contemporary global debates on law, migration, and identities.

Arab Patriotism

Arab Patriotism
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9780691209012
ISBN-13 : 0691209014
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Arab Patriotism by : Adam Mestyan

Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew in the Egyptian province of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, arguing that it served as a pivotal way station on the path to the birth of Arab nationhood. Through extensive archival research, Mestyan examines the collusion of various Ottoman elites in creating this nascent sense of national belonging and finds that learned culture played a central role in this development. Mestyan investigates the experience of community during this period, engendered through participation in public rituals and being part of a theater audience. He describes the embodied and textual ways these experiences were produced through urban spaces, poetry, performances, and journals. From the Khedivial Opera House's staging of Verdi's Aida and the first Arabic magazine to the 'Urabi revolution and the restoration of the authority of Ottoman viceroys under British occupation, Mestyan illuminates the cultural dynamics of a regime that served as the precondition for nation-building in the Middle East. --

The Lighthouse and the Observatory

The Lighthouse and the Observatory
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781107196339
ISBN-13 : 1107196337
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lighthouse and the Observatory by : Daniel A. Stolz

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After

Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9789004305809
ISBN-13 : 9004305807
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After by :

This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.

Tell This in My Memory

Tell This in My Memory
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780804783750
ISBN-13 : 0804783756
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Tell This in My Memory by : Eve M. Troutt Powell

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian men and women were as vulnerable to enslavement in the Nile Valley as were teenagers from Sudan or Ethiopia. Tell This in My Memory opens up a new window in the study of slavery in the modern Middle East, taking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners to shed light on the anxieties and intimacies of personal experience. The framework of racial identity constructed through these stories proves instrumental in explaining how countries later confronted—or not—the legacy of the slave trade. Today, these vocabularies of slavery live on for contemporary refugees whose forced migrations often replicate the journeys and stigmas faced by slaves in the nineteenth century.

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780691146171
ISBN-13 : 0691146179
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by : M. Şükrü Hanioğlu

At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the millions of people living within its borders. This text provides a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent years marked by incredible social change.

The Lighthouse and the Observatory

The Lighthouse and the Observatory
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781108169264
ISBN-13 : 1108169260
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lighthouse and the Observatory by : Daniel A. Stolz

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as The Lighthouse, are linked to examine the making of knowledge, the performance of piety, and the operation of political power through scientific practice. Contrary to ideas of Islamic scientific decline, Muslim scholars in the nineteenth century used a dynamic tradition of knowledge to measure time, compute calendars, and predict planetary positions. The rise of a 'new astronomy' is revealed to owe much to projects of political and religious reform: from the strengthening of the multiple empires that exercised power over the Nile Valley; to the 'modernization' of Islamic centers of learning; to the dream of a global Islamic community that would rely on scientific institutions to coordinate the timing of major religious duties.

Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798

Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781134975143
ISBN-13 : 1134975147
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1798 by : Michael Winter

First study to cover the whole of this period and focus on both social change and cultural/religious life The period is crucial to understanding modern Egyptian consciousness Author uses primary sources, not available anywhere else

Under Osman's Tree

Under Osman's Tree
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780226427171
ISBN-13 : 022642717X
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Under Osman's Tree by : Alan Mikhail

The early modern Middle East was a crucial zone of connection between Europe and the Mediterranean world, on the one hand, and South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and sub-Saharan Africa, on the other. Accordingly, global trade, climate, and disease both affected and were affected by what was happening in the Middle East s many environments. The trans-territorial and trans-temporal character of environmental history helps shed new light on the history of the region, and Alan Mikhail s latest tackles major topics in environmental history: natural resource management, climate, human and animal labor, water control, disease, and the politics of nature. It also reveals how one of the world s most important religious traditions, Islam, has related to the natural world. This is a model book that sets the course for Middle East environmental history."

The Empire in the City

The Empire in the City
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Publisher : Ergon Verlag
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015056683116
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Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Empire in the City by : Jens Hanssen

"The Empire in the city deals with the many aspects of change of urban societies in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire during the period of reforms in the 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period of normative and centralizing state reforms and increasing international exchange, local and global dynamics led to profound social changes. This book therefore focuses on the converging trends of social and architectural interaction: Cities are heterogeneous structures of social organization. Thousands of men and women act daily in this complex system and leave their mark on the many layers the city's appearance. In this sense cities provide a rich source for studies on social transformation. The contributions deal with various aspects of provincial capitals and show how at different levels - society, architecture, urban structures, administration, institutions etc. - late Ottoman times were far from being a period of irreversible decline in Arab provincial capitals. They turn out to be times of vibrant intellectual activity, intense innovation and conscious city planning. Direct European influence played only a very limited part. Much of the impetus for change and transformation came from Istanbul or from the evolving local bourgeoisie. This book tries to bring back the role of local societies into the historiography of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire."--Cover.