The Ottoman Origins Of Modern Iraq

Author : Ebubekir Ceylan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857720412

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The Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq by Ebubekir Ceylan Pdf

As a result of the various reforms of the mid-nineteenth century Tanzimat ('reorganisation') era, Ottoman authority in Iraq was much stronger and better administered by the 1870s, than it had been when the Ottomans imposed direct rule over the region in the 1830s. Drawing upon original source documents, Ebubekir Ceylan provides the first comprehensive study of the Tanzimat reforms in Iraq in the nineteenth century, focusing on aspects of political reform, modernization and development and analyzing both the successes and failures of the reform process. The reforms included administrative and military centralization, the establishment of provincial councils and these, as well as the Ottoman tribal policy and the Ottoman contribution to the modernization of urban life and infrastructure. Ceylan demonstrates that the origins of modern Iraq can be found in the period of Ottoman rule in the nineteenth century.

Author : Stephen Hemsley Longrigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Iraq
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072205243

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Four Centuries of Modern Iraq by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg Pdf

Author : Thabit Abdullah
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Pearson/Longman
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Iraq
ISBN : 0582505798

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A Short History of Iraq by Thabit Abdullah Pdf

The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire, to one of the most important and dynamic states in the Middle East. The rise of modern Iraq has its roots in the second half of the nineteenth century when Ottoman reforms led to gradual state modernization and increasing integration in the World Economy. British control after World War I was one of the determining factors in the establishment of the current borders of the country and the nature of its subsequent national identity. The other important factor was the highly heterogeneous nature of Iraqi society being divided along tribal, ethnic, religious, and sectarian lines. This book focuses on the interaction between the old and the new, or between continuity and change, as it is manifested in the nature of social development, nation-building, the state and the political opposition.

Author : Stacy E. Holden
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813043609

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A Documentary History of Modern Iraq by Stacy E. Holden Pdf

Previously published histories and primary source collections on the Iraqi experience tend to be topically focused or dedicated to presenting a top-down approach. By contrast, Stacy Holden's A Documentary History of Modern Iraq gives voice to ordinary Iraqis, clarifying the experience of the Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Jews, and women over the past century. Through varied documents ranging from short stories to treaties, political speeches to memoirs, and newspaper articles to book excerpts, the work synthesizes previously marginalized perspectives of minorities and women with the voices of the political elite to provide an integrated picture of political change from the Ottoman Empire in 1903 to the end of the second Bush administration in 2008. Covering a broad range of topics, this bottom-up approach allows readers to fully immerse themselves in the lives of everyday Iraqis as they navigate regime shifts from the British to the Hashemite monarchy, the political upheaval of the Persian Gulf wars, and beyond. Brief introductions to each excerpt provide context and suggest questions for classroom discussion. This collection offers raw history, untainted and unfiltered by modern political framework and thought, representing a refreshing new approach to the study of Iraq.

Author : Reeva S. Simon,Eleanor Harvey Tejirian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 023113293X

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The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 by Reeva S. Simon,Eleanor Harvey Tejirian Pdf

With the U.S.-led Operation Iraqi Freedom, we are reminded that almost one hundred years ago, Great Britain undertook a similar process of regime change and territorial reorganization in the same region of the world. In the thick of world conflict, with its strategic interests in the balance, the British had to begin planning for the aftermath of the World War that permitted the redrawing of borders and the creation of new political entities. One year after the beginning of World War I, preparations for a new strategic order in the Middle East were already underway. For the Allies -Britain, France, and Russia -the task was different from that of the United States today. Yet unlike the Coalition forces that in 2003 proclaimed the territorial integrity of Iraq, the British began from scratch: until 1921, the country of Iraq did not exist. How did this actually come about? And what were the reactions of the peoples living in that contested territory? This collection of essays by leading scholars provides a comprehensive yet accessible overview of Iraq's history and its strategic importance from three points of view: local residents, Iraq's neighbors (Iran, Turkey, and Kurdistan), and the Great Powers. The book captures the complexity of forces that contributed to the making of Iraq as a modern state, integrating short and long term policy, individual and group interests, and the impact of World War I. The Creation of Iraq helps readers to understand the dynamics and interplay of regional history and geo-strategic and imperial priorities in an area of the world that will continue to dominate international politics for years to come. - Publisher.

Author : T. Nieuwenhuis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400974883

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Politics and Society in Early Modern Iraq by T. Nieuwenhuis Pdf

1 This study deals with the Mamliik period in Iraqi history (1750- 1831), and more particularly with later Mamliik times (1802-1831). The year 1831 marks the watershed between an era of 'local rule' and one of restored Turkish centralization. During the Mamliik period the influence of external powers in Iraq was not excessive; after that year direct Turkish rule coincided with growing British in fluence, which increasingly opened the country to the forces of the world market. As an object of study the period of local rule is inter esting, particularly because it formed the background to, and in some aspects also the start of, the modern history ofIraq. The literature available on Mamliik rule and tribal power is scarce and unsatisfying in various ways. The best history of 'Ottoman' Iraq is still that of Longrigg, which was written in the 1920's. However, although based on an admirable range of sources, it provides the reader with little more than a political chronology. Generally, the social and political historian of early modern Iraq is confronted with a lack of information of a very basic kind - if indeed he can find any 2 relevant information. For example, there is hardly any information on the Mamliik institution. Only the most scanty evidence exists on the history of the Yanissaris of Baghdad, or on the socio-political history of the lower orders of the town. Again, almost nothing is known about the lower orders of the sedentary rural world.

Author : Thabit Abdullah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1138835153

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A Short History of Iraq by Thabit Abdullah Pdf

This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike. The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire, to one of the most important and dynamic states in the Middle East. The rise of modern Iraq has its roots in the second half of the nineteenth century when Ottoman reforms led to gradual state modernization and increasing integration in the World Economy. British control after World War I was one of the determining factors in the establishment of the current borders of the country and the nature of its subsequent national identity. The other important factor was the highly heterogeneous nature of Iraqi society being divided along tribal, ethnic, religious, and sectarian lines. This book focuses on the interaction between the old and the new, or between continuity and change, as it is manifested in the nature of social development, nation-building, the state and the political opposition. An entirely new chapter focusing on the recent conflict has been added, and will contain sections on: The new chapter will have the following sections: The Question of American Intervention Invasion and the Fall of Saddam Looting & the Collapse of the Central State The Provisional Authority's Reforms The Nature of the Resistance Iraq's New Political Reality Elections and the Rise of Sectarian Parties Social-Economic Transformations The Challenge of the Future.

Author : Haim Gerber
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555875092

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The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East by Haim Gerber Pdf

Author : Phebe Marr
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015007049359

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The Modern History Of Iraq by Phebe Marr Pdf

Author : Charles Tripp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015074290092

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A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp Pdf

Third edition of Charles Tripp's authoritative history of Iraq.

Author : Gökhan Çetinsaya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134294954

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The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908 by Gökhan Çetinsaya Pdf

This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing together and analyzing an abundance of complex documents, this book is a fascinating contribution to the field of Middle Eastern studies.

Author : Charles Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 052152900X

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A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp Pdf

This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes, culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein.

Author : Michael Provence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521761178

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The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Provence Pdf

A study of the period of armed conflict following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

Author : Hans J. Nissen,Peter Heine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226586656

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From Mesopotamia to Iraq by Hans J. Nissen,Peter Heine Pdf

The recent reopening of Iraq’s National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country’s dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. A sweeping account of the rich history that has played out between these chronological poles, From Mesopotamia to Iraq looks back through 10,000 years of the region’s deeply significant yet increasingly overshadowed past. Hans J. Nissen and Peter Heine begin by explaining how ancient Mesopotamian inventions—including urban society, a system of writing, and mathematical texts that anticipated Pythagoras—profoundly influenced the course of human history. These towering innovations, they go on to reveal, have sometimes obscured the major role Mesopotamia continued to play on the world stage. Alexander the Great, for example, was fascinated by Babylon and eventually died there. Seventh-century Muslim armies made the region one of their first conquests outside the Arabian peninsula. And the Arab caliphs who ruled for centuries after the invasion built the magnificent city of Baghdad, attracting legions of artists and scientists. Tracing the evolution of this vibrant country into a contested part of the Ottoman Empire, a twentieth-century British colony, a republic ruled by Saddam Hussein, and the democracy it has become, Nissen and Heine repair the fragmented image of Iraq that has come to dominate our collective imagination. In hardly any other continuously inhabited part of the globe can we chart such developments in politics, economy, and culture across so extended a period of time. By doing just that, the authors illuminate nothing less than the forces that have made the world what it is today.

Author : Zackery M. Heern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744971

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The Emergence of Modern Shi'ism by Zackery M. Heern Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at the foundations of modern Islam. Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. However, this study focuses on the rise of Islamic movements indigenous to the Middle East, which developed in direct response to the collapse and decentralization of the Islamic gunpowder empires. In other words, the book argues that the Usuli movement as well as Wahhabism and neo-Sufism emerged in reaction to the disintegration and political decentralization of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires. The book specifically highlights the emergence of Usuli Shi‘ism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The long-term impact of the Usuli revival was that Shi‘i clerics gained unprecedented social, political, and economic power in Iran and southern Iraq. Usuli clerics claimed authority to issue binding legal judgments, which, they argue, must be observed by all Shi‘is. By the early nineteenth century, Usulism emerged as a popular, fiercely independent, transnational Islamic movement. The Usuli clerics have often operated at the heart of social and political developments in modern Iraq and Iran and today dominate the politics of the region.