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• Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800
• The Arab Lands
• Sources for the study of the Ottoman Arab lands
• "Decline" and decentralization
• State and society
• Local notables and localization
• Households
• Households and localization
• Artisans
• Rural populations
• Non-Muslims and non-Sunnis
• Underrepresented populations
• Conclusion
• Chapter 1: Land and Peoples
• Regions and nomenclature
• Geographical features
• Peoples
• Religious minorities
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2: The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands
• The rise of the Ottomans
• The Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517)
• The Safavids
• The Portuguese
• Conquest of the Mamluks
• Suleyman I's conquest of Iraq
• Yemen
• North Africa
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3: The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration
• Administrative subdivisions
• Land tenure
• Early challenges to Ottoman rule
• Chapter 4: Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century
• The "decline" paradigm
• The crisis of the seventeenth century
• Competing households
• Janissary hegemony in the Arab provinces
• Jelali governors and their equivalents
• The loss of Yemen
• The Koeprulu reforms
• Chapter 5: Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century
• Ayan
• The ayan household
• Georgian mamluks in ayan households
• Eunuchs
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6: Religious and Intellectual Life
• The religious milieu
• Religious institutions and personnel
• The ulema
• Sufism
• Changes to religious and intellectual life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Conclusion
• Chapter 7: Urban Life and Trade
• Arab provincial cities
• Urban change in the Ottoman era
• Government regulation of markets
• Guilds
• Long-distance trade
• The Red Sea coffee trade and its cultural effects
• Conclusion
• Chapter 8: Rural Life
• Land tenure
• Village life
• Cash crops
• Migration and change
• Tribes
• Conclusion
• Chapter 9: Non-Normative Populations I: Non-Muslims-- the Poor and Disabled
• Religious minorities
• Jews
• Syrian Catholics
• Jews and Christians in financial service
• Twelver Shia
• Druze, Alawis (Nusayris), Yazidis
• The poor and disabled
• Conclusion
• Chapter 10: Non-Normative Populations II: Women, Non-Elite Slaves, Eunuchs
• Stereotype and reality: veiling and the harem
• Women in the household
• Marriage
• Inheritance
• Occupations
• Non-elite slavery
• Eunuchs
• Conclusion
• Chapter 11: Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century (and
• Afterward)
• Agricultural crisis
• Military challenges and attempted reform under Selim III
• Nineteenth-century reforms
• European imperial encroachment
• Sufism and anti-imperialism
• Conclusion: The Ottoman Arab provinces after 1800
• Conclusion: Transformations under Ottoman Rule
• The effects of Ottoman rule
• Turk vs. Arab, Balkan vs. Arab? Persistent scholarly dichotomies
• Present-day relevance
• Ottoman Sultans
• Political Chronology
• Glossary
• Index.
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The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq, and Yemen between 1516 and 1800. Drawing attention to the important history of these regions, the book challenges outmoded perceptions of this period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As well as exploring political events and developments, it delves into the extensive social, cultural, and economic changes that helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near East. In doing so, it provides a detailed view of society, incorporating all socio-economic classes, as well as women, religious minorities, and slaves. This second edition has been significantly revised and updated and reflects the developments in research and scholarship since the publication of the first edition. Engaging with a wide range of primary sources and enhanced by a variety of maps and images to illustrate the text, The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule is a unique and essential resource for students of early modern Ottoman history and the early modern Middle East.
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One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media - metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main themes are based on angular and geometric shapes - vertical and horizontal striped bands; hexagons and octagons, which can be linked and infinitely extended; stylized and rhythmic scrolls of foliage and flowers; and Arabic calligraphy, of which the letters can be formed into continuous borders, panels and medallions. These motifs can be used separately or combined into complex patterns, of which the repetitive and two-dimensional features are ideal for textile production, especially where varying lengths are required - for hangings, curtains, robes and shawls. Valued for their role in the subtleties of court ceremonial and fashion, these textiles were also much admired beyond the Islamic lands. The exceptional collection published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent linked by a shared vocabulary of ornament - evidence of the international nature of Islamic design. Materials represented are silk - the most prestigious of fibres, requiring highly respected weavers - wool, cotton and linen. Decoration is based on variations of weave and colour and embellishment through embroidery, printing and applique and illustrates the work of both professional and domestic workers. The strengths of the collection are concentrated in the textile production of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which, thanks to the basically conservative nature of textile technique and design, preserve and continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world. They are important in an assessment of Islamic textiles both for their quality and as illustrations of survival and adaptation in a major industry. Their heritage reaches back well over a thousand years, even though their very high perishability means that for the earlier part of the tradition our knowledge is reliant very largely on written sources. These, however, attest to the superb quality and quantity of textiles at the courts of the period.
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• In the beginning
• The empire grows
• The Umayyads
• The Abbasids
• The Sejuk Turks
• Islam in Spain
• The Fatimids
• The Crusades
• The Mongols
• The Mamluks
• The Mughal Empire
• Safavids
• Distant empires
• The Ottoman empire.

• * Note on Nomenclature * List of Figures * Introduction
• *1. The Rise and Fall of the Trojan Turks
• *2. Barbarians at the Gates
• *3. In Search of the Classical Turks
• *4. Translations of Empire
• *5. Wise Men in the East * Epilogue * Appendix: The Caspian Gates * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index.
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Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from-and contributed to-contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and long-standing European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.
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Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European historians turned to study the political history of a faith other than their own. Meserve investigates the methods and illuminates the motives of scholars negotiating shifting boundaries-between scholarly research and political propaganda, between a commitment to critical historical inquiry and the pressure of centuries of classical and Christian prejudice, between the academic ideals of humanism and the everyday demands of political patronage. Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from-and contributed to-contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. Humanist histories of the Turks were sharply polemical, portraying the Ottomans as a rogue power. But writings on other Muslim polities include some of the first positive appraisals of Muslim statecraft in the European tradition. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and the longstanding European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.
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• * Note on Nomenclature * List of Figures * Introduction
• *1. The Rise and Fall of the Trojan Turks
• *2. Barbarians at the Gates
• *3. In Search of the Classical Turks
• *4. Translations of Empire
• *5. Wise Men in the East * Epilogue * Appendix: The Caspian Gates * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index.
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Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European historians turned to study the political history of a faith other than their own. Meserve investigates the methods and illuminates the motives of scholars negotiating shifting boundaries-between scholarly research and political propaganda, between a commitment to critical historical inquiry and the pressure of centuries of classical and Christian prejudice, between the academic ideals of humanism and the everyday demands of political patronage. Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang from-and contributed to-contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean. Humanist histories of the Turks were sharply polemical, portraying the Ottomans as a rogue power. But writings on other Muslim polities include some of the first positive appraisals of Muslim statecraft in the European tradition. This groundbreaking book offers new insights into Renaissance humanist scholarship and the longstanding European debates over the relationship between Christianity and Islam.
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• The rise of Islam and the Pan-Islamic movement
• The rise of the Turks and the Pan-Turanian movement
• Islam in India and Africa.

• The rise of Islam and the Pan-Islamic movement
• The rise of the Turks and the Pan-Turanian movement
• Islam in India and Africa.

Aiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modern world history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America and Asia, the formation of trading companies, and scientific discoveries. Recent scholarship has challenged this approach on account of its Eurocentric bias, on both the theoretical and empirical levels. Studies on India and southeast Asia, for example, reject the models of these regions as places without history, as stagnant and in decline, and as awakening only with the emergence of colonialism when they became the recipients of European culture and technology. So far, Egypt and the rest of the Ottoman world have been left out of these approaches. Nelly Hanna fills this gap by showing that there were worldwide trends that touched Egypt, India, southeast Asia, and Europe. In all these areas, for example, there were linguistic shifts that brought the written language closer to the spoken word. She also demonstrates that technology and know-how, far from being centered only in Europe, flowed in different directions: in the eighteenth century, French entrepreneurs were trying to imitate the techniques of bleaching and dyeing of cloth that they found in Egypt and other Ottoman localities.Based on a series of lectures given at the Middle East Center at Harvard, this groundbreaking book will be of interest to all those looking for a different perspective on the history of south-north relations.
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