The Ottoman Cities Of Lebanon

Author : James A. Reilly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786730367

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The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon by James A. Reilly Pdf

Whether defined as essentially 'Turkish', and therefore alien to the Lebanese experience, or remembered in its final years as a tyrannical and brutal dictatorship, the period has not been thought of fondly in most Lebanese historiography. In a far-reaching and much-needed analysis of this complex legacy, James A. Reilly looks at Arabic-language history writing emanating from Lebanon in the post-1975 period, focusing on the three main Ottoman administrative centres of Saida, Beirut and Tripoli. This examination highlights key aspects of Lebanon's current political and cultural climate, and emphasises important points of agreement and conflict in contemporary historical discourse. The 1989 Ta'if Accords, for example, which ended the Lebanese Civil War, were accompanied by calls for reinterpretation of how the country's history could assist in creating a sense of national cohesion. The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon is invaluable to all historians and researchers working on Lebanese history and politics, and wider issues of identity, post-imperialist discourse and nationhood in the Middle East.

Author : Jens Hanssen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191557729

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Fin de Siècle Beirut by Jens Hanssen Pdf

Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city. Fin de Siècle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health, education, public morality, journalism, and architecture. Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in 1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab nationalists in Beirut until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.

Author : Jens Hanssen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0199281637

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Fin de Siècle Beirut by Jens Hanssen Pdf

Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, Jens Hanssen argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space.

Author : Stefan Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139486811

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The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788 by Stefan Winter Pdf

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.

Author : Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004124547

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The Image Of An Ottoman City by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh Pdf

This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city's evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting.

Author : Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857717757

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The View from Istanbul by Abdul Rahim Abu Husayn Pdf

This work makes detailed studies and extensive use of Ottoman chancery documents, aiming to fill many gaps in the historical record. It sets out to answer such questions as: how did the Ottomans run their empire? How did they view Lebanon? What were their prime concerns in the region? Each section is prefaced by a short introduction that places the documents in historical context and analyzes their content and scope.

Author : Engin Deniz Akarlı
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : 185043655X

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The Long Peace by Engin Deniz Akarlı Pdf

Although since the early 19th century Lebanon has been one of the most turbulent areas of the world, the period of 60 years between the civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920, saw a long peace. Engin Akarli's book looks at these crucial years and at the socio-political changes that resulted from the shifting alliances that characterized the period.

Author : Paul Doyle
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781841623702

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Lebanon by Paul Doyle Pdf

The only dedicated guide to Lebanon that covers everything from hip Beirut to the Ancient Cities.

Author : John P. Spagnolo
Publisher : London : Ithaca Press for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College Oxford
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066420319

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France & Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1914 by John P. Spagnolo Pdf

Author : Sara Fregonese
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781838600532

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War and the City by Sara Fregonese Pdf

War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the Lebanese Civil War through a micro-level exploration of how the urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict. Focusing on the initial phase of the war in 1975 and 1976, the volume also draws significant parallels with more recent occurrences of internecine conflict and with the historical legacies of Lebanon's colonial past. While most scholarship has thus far focused on post-war reconstruction of the city, the initial process of destruction has been neglected. This volume thus moves away from formal macro-level geopolitical analysis, to propose instead an exploration of the urban nature of conflict through its spaces, infrastructures, bodies and materialities. The book utilizes urban viewpoints in order to highlight the nature of sovereignty in Lebanon and how it is inscribed on the urban landscape. War and the City presents a view of geopolitics as not only shaping narratives of international relations, but as crucially reshaping the space of cities.

Author : Tine Gade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009222761

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Sunni City by Tine Gade Pdf

Analyses contentious politics in Tripoli, Lebanon's Sunni city, and the relations between Islamist and sectarian groups in governing the city.

Author : Lucia Volk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253004925

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Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon by Lucia Volk Pdf

Lebanese history is often associated with sectarianism and hostility between religious communities, but by examining public memorials and historical accounts Lucia Volk finds evidence for a sustained politics of Muslim and Christian co-existence. Lebanese Muslim and Christian civilians were jointly commemorated as martyrs for the nation after various episodes of violence in Lebanese history. Sites of memory sponsored by Maronite, Sunni, Shiite, and Druze elites have shared the goal of creating cross-community solidarity by honoring the joint sacrifice of civilians of different religious communities. This compelling and lucid study enhances our understanding of culture and politics in the Middle East and the politics of memory in situations of ongoing conflict.

Author : David S. Sorenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313365799

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Global Security Watch—Lebanon by David S. Sorenson Pdf

A comprehensive examination of the complex domestic environment and the quarrelsome neighbors that contribute to Lebanon's condition as one of the most violent and unstable countries in the Middle East. Global Security Watch—Lebanon is the first volume to consider all factors—political, economic, religious, and actions by its neighbors—that have contributed to Lebanon's violent past and that shape its current security status. In Global Security Watch—Lebanon, author David Sorenson explores Lebanon's arcane—almost dysfunctional—political structure and economic system, as well as the complex religious makeup of a country that is home to Christians, Jews, and Arabs with no majority faith. Sorenson also looks at how the nation has often served as a focal point of diplomatic and military conflict for other nations, including Syria, Iran, and Israel, as well as how ill-informed American policies toward Lebanon have ultimately harmed American strategic interests in the Middle East.

Author : Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190872144

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Between the Ottomans and the Entente by Stacy D. Fahrenthold Pdf

Since 2011 over 5.6 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and beyond, and another 6.6 million are internally displaced. The contemporary flight of Syrian refugees comes one century after the region's formative experience with massive upheaval, displacement, and geopolitical intervention: the First World War. In this book, Stacy Fahrenthold examines the politics of Syrian and Lebanese migration around the period of the First World War. Some half million Arab migrants, nearly all still subjects of the Ottoman Empire, lived in a diaspora concentrated in Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. They faced new demands for their political loyalty from Istanbul, which commanded them to resist European colonialism. From the Western hemisphere, Syrian migrants grappled with political suspicion, travel restriction, and outward displays of support for the war against the Ottomans. From these diasporic communities, Syrians used their ethnic associations, commercial networks, and global press to oppose Ottoman rule, collaborating with the Entente powers because they believed this war work would bolster the cause of Syria's liberation. Between the Ottomans and the Entente shows how these communities in North and South America became a geopolitical frontier between the Young Turk Revolution and the early French Mandate. It examines how empires at war-from the Ottomans to the French-embraced and claimed Syrian migrants as part of the state-building process in the Middle East. In doing so, they transformed this diaspora into an epicenter for Arab nationalist politics. Drawing on transnational sources from migrant activists, this wide-ranging work reveals the degree to which Ottoman migrants "became Syrians" while abroad and brought their politics home to the post-Ottoman Middle East.

Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi,Renata Holod,Antillio Petruccioli,André Raymond
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047442653

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The City in the Islamic World (2 vols.) by Salma Khadra Jayyusi,Renata Holod,Antillio Petruccioli,André Raymond Pdf

The purpose of this book, is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been specially expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities.