The Politics Of Households In Ottoman Egypt

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610295317

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The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt by Jane Hathaway Pdf

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Thomas Philipp,Ulrich Haarmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521591155

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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society by Thomas Philipp,Ulrich Haarmann Pdf

In this book, distinguished scholars provide an accessible introduction to the structure of political power under the Mamluks and its economic foundations.

Author : Jane Hathaway,Karl Barbir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875628

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The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule by Jane Hathaway,Karl Barbir Pdf

In this seminal study, Jane Hathaway presents a wide-ranging reassessment of the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen - the first of its kind in over forty years. Challenging 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, Hathaway depicts an era of immense social, cultural, economic and political change which helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near East. Taking full advantage of a wide range of Arabic and Ottoman primary sources, she examines the changing fortunes of not only the political elite but also the broader population of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, tribal populations, religious scholars, women, and ethnic and religious minorities who inhabited this diverse and volatile region. With masterly concision and clarity, Hathaway guides the reader through all the key current approaches to and debates surrounding Arab society during this period. This is far more than just another political history; it is a global study which offers an entirely new perspective on the era and region as a whole.

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199315277

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The Animal in Ottoman Egypt by Alan Mikhail Pdf

Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.

Author : Febe Armanios
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199744848

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Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt by Febe Armanios Pdf

Chiefly interested in the early modern period, 1517-1798.

Author : Heath W. Lowry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Michael Nizri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137326904

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Ottoman High Politics and the Ulema Household by Michael Nizri Pdf

In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, bringing together individuals of varied backgrounds through empire-wide patronage networks. This book investigates the layers of kap? power, through the example of ?eyhülislam Feyzullah Efendielite.

Author : F. Robert Hunter
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 977424544X

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Egypt Under the Khedives, 1805-1879 by F. Robert Hunter Pdf

Robert Hunter's Egypt Under the Khedives, brought back into print in this paperback edition, was a pioneering work when first published in the 1980s, as Western scholars began to comb Egypt's national archives for an understanding of the social and economic history of the country. It is now recognized as one of the fundamental books on nineteenth-century Egypt: it is so archivally based and empirically solid that it forms the starting-point for all research. Hunter used land and pension records in Dar al-Mahfuzat, in addition to published archival collections like those of Amin Sami Pasha, to enlarge our understanding of the social dimensions of the politics of the period. A secondary and very important contribution of the work is its explanation of the way in which "collaborating bureaucrat-landowners" aided in the country's subordination to European political and economic dominance in the reign of Ismail. The big chapter on the unraveling of khedivial absolutism is a splendid piece of storytelling, as it explores the wild fluctuations in Egypt's finances, Ismail's desperate gambits to ward off European administrative scrutiny, and the defection of key officials in his regime to the European side. Egypt Under the Khedives appears on Oxford University's 'Best Thirty' list of "must-read" books in the field of Middle East history.

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108295

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The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem by Jane Hathaway Pdf

A study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the sultan's harem in Istanbul under the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000034257

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The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule by Jane Hathaway Pdf

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.

Author : Febe Armanios
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199781273

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Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt by Febe Armanios Pdf

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives. Ottoman Copts frequently turned to religious discourses, practices, and rituals as they dealt with various transformations in the first centuries of Ottoman rule. These included the establishment of a new political regime, changes within communal leadership structures (favoring lay leaders over clergy), the economic ascent of the archons (lay elites), and developments in the Copts' relationship with other religious communities, particularly with Catholics. Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt highlights how Copts, as a minority living in a dominant Islamic culture, identified and distinguished themselves from other groups by turning to an impressive array of religious traditions, such as the visitation of saints' shrines, the relocation of major festivals to remote destinations, the development of new pilgrimage practices, as well as the writing of sermons that articulated a Coptic religious ethos in reaction to Catholic missionary discourses. Within this discussion of religious life, the Copts' relationship to local political rulers, military elites, the Muslim religious establishment, and to other non-Muslim communities are also elucidated. In all, the book aims to document the Coptic experience within the Ottoman Egyptian context while focusing on new documentary sources and on an historical era that has been long neglected.

Author : Michael Winter,Amalia Levanoni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9004132864

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The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society by Michael Winter,Amalia Levanoni Pdf

This volume is a collection of studies by leading historians on central aspects of the Mamluk Empire of Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and of Ottoman Egypt (16th-18th century) where the Mamluks survived under the Ottoman suzerainty.