Nature And Empire In Ottoman Egypt

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499552

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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail Pdf

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the nature of Ottoman imperial sovereignty in Egypt and throughout the empire. In revealing how Egyptian peasants were able to use their knowledge and experience of local environments to force the hand of the imperial state, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt tells a story of the connections of empire stretching from canals in the Egyptian countryside to the palace in Istanbul, from the forests of Anatolia to the shores of the Red Sea, and from a plague flea's bite to the fortunes of one of the most powerful states of the early modern world.

Author : Sam White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139499491

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The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Sam White Pdf

The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbreak of the destructive Celali Rebellion (1595–1610). This rebellion marked a turning point in Ottoman fortunes, as a combination of ongoing Little Ice Age climate events, nomad incursions and rural disorder postponed Ottoman recovery over the following century, with enduring impacts on the region's population, land use and economy.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571331925

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God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail Pdf

The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who, with the aid of his extraordinarily gifted mother, Gülbahar, hugely expanded the empire, propelling it onto the world stage. Aware of centuries of European suppression of Islamic history, Alan Mikhail centers Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus's voyages - which originated, in fact, as a Catholic jihad that would come to view Native Americans as somehow "Moorish" - the Protestant Reformation, the transatlantic slave trade, and the dramatic Ottoman seizure of the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping detail, Mikhail's groundbreaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life and world. An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East.

Author : Heath W. Lowry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791487266

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The Nature of the Early Ottoman State by Heath W. Lowry Pdf

Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into Southeastern Europe, Lowry argues that the primary motivation was a desire for booty and slaves. The early Ottomans were a plundering confederacy, open to anyone (Muslim or Christian) who could meaningfully contribute to this goal. It was this lack of a strict religious orthodoxy, and a willingness to preserve local customs and practices, that allowed the Ottomans to gain and maintain support. Later accounts were written to buttress what had become the self-image of the dynasty following its incorporation of the heartland of the Islamic world in the sixteenth century.

Author : Peter Crooks,Timothy H. Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166035

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Empires and Bureaucracy in World History by Peter Crooks,Timothy H. Parsons Pdf

A comparative study of the power and limits of bureaucracy in historical empires from ancient Rome to the twentieth century.

Author : Adam Mestyan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691209012

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Arab Patriotism by Adam Mestyan Pdf

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. --

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134975143

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

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

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521892945

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The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt by Jane Hathaway Pdf

In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial variation on an empire-wide, household-based political culture. The study focuses on the Qazdagli household. Originally, a largely Anatolian contingent within Egypt's Janissary regiment, the Qazdaglis dominated Egypt by the late eighteenth century. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, Jane Hathaway sheds light on the manner in which the Qazdaglis exploited the Janissary rank hierarchy, while forming strategic alliances through marriage, commercial partnerships and the patronage of palace eunuchs.

Author : Yaron Ayalon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107072978

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Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire by Yaron Ayalon Pdf

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

Author : Norman Itzkowitz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226098012

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Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition by Norman Itzkowitz Pdf

This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-century confrontation with a rapidly modernizing Europe. Itzkowitz delineates the fundamental institutions of the Ottoman state, the major divisions within the society, and the basic ideas on government and social structure. Throughout, Itzkowitz emphasizes the Ottomans' own conception of their historical experience, and in so doing penetrates the surface view provided by the insights of Western observers of the Ottoman world to the core of Ottoman existence.

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791486108

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A Tale of Two Factions by Jane Hathaway Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In answer to the enduring mystery surrounding the factions' origins, Jane Hathaway places their emergence within the generalized crisis that the Ottoman Empire—like much of the rest of the world—suffered during the early modern period, while uncovering a symbiosis between Ottoman Egypt and Yemen that was critical to their formation. In addition, she scrutinizes the factions' foundation myths, deconstructing their tropes and symbols to reveal their connections to much older popular narratives. Drawing on parallels from a wide array of cultures, she demonstrates with striking originality how rituals such as storytelling and public processions, as well as identifying colors and emblems, could serve to reinforce factional identity.

Author : Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912186810

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Seeds of Power by Onur Inal,Yavuz Köse Pdf

Author : Eve M. Troutt Powell
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804783750

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Tell This in My Memory by Eve M. Troutt Powell Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781009051187

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Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire by Patricia Blessing Pdf

In this book, Patricia Blessing explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the fifteenth century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building practices, she examines how workers from Anatolia, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Iran and Central Asia participated in key construction projects. She also demonstrates how drawn, scalable models on paper served as templates for architectural decorations and supplemented collaborations that involved the mobility of workers. Blessing reveals how the creation of centralized workshops led to the emergence of a clearly defined imperial Ottoman style by 1500, when the flexibility and experimentation of the preceding century was levelled. Her book radically transforms our understanding of Ottoman architecture by exposing the diverse and fluid nature of its formative period. It also provides the reader with an understanding of design, planning, and construction processes of a major empire of the Islamic world.

Author : Darin N. Stephanov
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474441438

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Ruler Visibility and Popular Belonging in the Ottoman Empire, 1808-1908 by Darin N. Stephanov Pdf

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthday and accession-day celebrations constituted, had multiple, far-reaching and largely unexplored consequences. On the one hand, it brought ordinary subjects into symbolic contact with the monarch and forged lasting vertical ties of loyalty to him, irrespective of language, location, creed or class. On the other hand, the rounds of royal celebration played a key role in the creation of new types of horizontal ties and ethnic group consciousness that crystallized into national movements and, after the empire's demise, national monarchies.