(H/B) STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Παρουσίαση

This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism. Many of the studies are based on archival research, and the documents give a new picture of the issues involved. Thus, women were much more involved in the public arena and in economic life of the city that formerly thought; the urban family at this time was much smaller and nuclear-like, on the whole much more modern looking than anticipated. In the same way, Turkish society was far from being despotically oppressed by the Ottoman centre, with several institutions existing in it that gave substance to the term civil society.
In the context of the 19th century it was found that, judging by the case of the province of Jerusalem, the final phase of the Tanzimat really tipped the balance in favour of the success of this whole movement of Reform: Ottoman society and Ottoman state became much more orderly and at ease with themselves than before, or at least than the stormy decades of the early 19th century. The final studies show that the Ottoman period and the structure of the Ottoman state, more properly, exerted much influence on the forms of nationalism that developed in the Middle East after the Ottoman downfall. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

I. The waqf institution in early Ottoman Edirne
II. The Muslim law of partnerships in Ottoman court records
III. The monetary system of the Ottoman Empire
IV. Social and economic position of women in an Ottoman city, Bursa, 1600-1700
V. Anthropology and family history: the Ottoman and Turkish families
VI. Muslims and zimmis in Ottoman economy and society: encounters, culture and knowledge
VII. The public sphere and civil society in the Ottoman Empire
VIII. Rigidity versus openness in late classical Islamic law: the case of the seventeenth-century Palestinian mufti al-Din al-Ramli
IX. The Ottoman administration of the Sanjaq of Jerusalem, 189-1908
X. A new look at the Tanzimat: the case of the province of Jerusalem
XI. The population of Syria and Palestine in the nineteenth century
XII. Modernization in nineteenth-century Palestine: the role of foreign trade
XIII. 'Palestine' and other territorial concepts in the 17th century
XIV. The limits of constructedness: memory and nationalism in the Arab Middle East
XV. The Muslim umma and the formation of Middle Eastern nationalisms
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