The Arab lands under Ottoman rule : 1516-1800
- Responsibility
- Jane Hathaway
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
- Copyright notice
- ©2020
- Physical description
- xix, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Series
- History of the Near East.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Hathaway, Jane, 1962- author.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
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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.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
-
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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Arab countries > History > 1517-1918.
- Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
- Islamic Empire > History.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2020
- Copyright date
- 2020
- Series
- A history of the Near East
- ISBN
- 9781138643444 hardcover
- 1138643440 hardcover
- 9781138643451 paperback
- 1138643459 paperback
- 9781003015079 electronic book
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