Author: Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: ottoman, studies, library, world, empire
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-03
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1845111222
ISBN-13: 9781845111229
In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan--the perceived successor to the Caliphs--supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather a long-established network of diplomatic, financial, cultural and religious connections. These extended to the empires of Asia and the modern states of Europe. Faroqhi’s book is based on a huge study of original and early modern sources, including diplomatic records, travel and geographical writ
Author: Robert Dankoff
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: ottoman, empire, heritage, celebi, evliya, mentality, world
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2004-05
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 9004137157
ISBN-13: 9789004137158
In his huge travel account, Evliya Çelebi provides materials for getting at Ottoman perceptions of the world, not only in areas like geography, topography, administration, urban institutions, and social and economic systems, but also in such domains as religion, folklore, sexual relations, dream interpretation, and conceptions of the self. In six chapters the author examines: Evliya’s treatment of Istanbul and Cairo as the two capital cities of the Ottoman world; his geographical horizons and notions of tolerance; his attitudes toward government, justice and specific Ottoman institutio
Author: Hulya Canbakal
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: ottoman, empire, heritage, century, town, politics, society, ayntab
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $138.00
ISBN-10: 9004154566
ISBN-13: 9789004154568
This book deals with a provincial town attending to its day-to-day business against the backdrop of an exacting war fought far afield against the Habsburgs (1683-99). The dynamics of long-term economic growth were temporarily disturbed by the wartime economy while realignment in center-periphery relations affected the local power structure and practices of status management. Meanwhile, the local elite continued to dominate public life, hence the lives of commoners. This study opens a window onto this world through a close examination of the court records of the town.
Author: Caesar E. Farah
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: ottoman, rule, studies, library, challenges, yemen, century, sultan
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-06-29
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 1860647677
ISBN-13: 9781860647673
When the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, it resulted in an onslaught of foreign encroachments by British and Italian client tribes and chieftans in the Arabian peninsula. In this concise account of the history of the political rivalries confronting Ottoman Yemen, Caesar E. Farah delineates the various military campaigns to regain control over Yemen, while providing valuable insight into the process of pacification in this critical corner of Arabia.
Author: George Gawrych
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: ottoman, library, studies, albanians, rule, eagle, crescent, islam
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-12-26
List price: $94.00
ISBN-10: 1845112873
ISBN-13: 9781845112875
A balanced and original picture of Ottoman rule and the Albanians during a critical period of Balkan and Middle East history. The Crescent and the Eagle examines the awakening of Albanian national identity from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of the First World War - a period of intense nationalism in the Balkans - from an Ottoman perspective. Drawing on Ottoman and European archival and other primary source material, Gawrych contradicts and undermines the usual negative stereotypes of Ottoman rule. Instead he provides a critical but objective examination of the evolution of govern
Author: Oded Peri
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: ottoman, times, empire, heritage, sites, holy, islam, jerusalem, question, christianity
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2001-05
List price: $134.00
ISBN-10: 9004120424
ISBN-13: 9789004120426
A major issue in 19th-century world politics, the question of Christianity’s holiest shrines in Jerusalem is covered by a large body of literature. Most of this scholarship, however, concentrates on the period when the question of the Holy Sites has already evolved from a domestic Ottoman problem into an all-European issue. Much less is known about this problem in earlier times, when the Ottoman Empire was still a dominant power able to propose solutions free of foreign interference and outside pressures. Based on official Ottoman records found in the registers of the kadi’s court
Author: Mahmud Yazbak
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: ottoman, empire, heritage, transition, muslim, period, haifa, town
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 1998-07
List price: $206.00
ISBN-10: 9004110518
ISBN-13: 9789004110519
This volume offers a history of Haifa during the period of the 19th century when Europe’s penetration of Palestine combined with Istanbul’s centralization efforts to alter irrevocably the social fabric of the country and change its political destiny. After tracing the town’s beginnings in the early 18th century, the author reconstructs from the few "sijill" volumes that have survived vital aspects of Ottoman Haifa’s society and administration. A look at the town’s demography is followed by an in-depth discussion of the way inter-communal relations developed after
