From Kingdoms to Protectorate to New Nation

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-59
Author(s):  
David A. Hoekema
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Regional Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Nation

To set the background for the civil war in northern Uganda and the interfaith organization that was created to work for its resolution, the present chapter reviews the history of the region. Beginning with indigenous populations organized into kingdoms and ethnic communities, the slave trade that linked East Africa with the Middle East, and the competition among European powers for regional control, the chapter traces the transition from British protectorate to independent nation and the tumultuous period that followed, under the repressive regimes of Milton Obote and Idi Amin.

The Price Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: A Turning Point in the Economic History of the Near East

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer Lutfi Barkan ◽  
Justin McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Near East ◽  
Turkish Population ◽  
Social Crisis ◽  
History Of

The sixteenth century came to an end with the countries of the Ottoman Middle East falling into a grave economic and social crisis which presaged a decisive turning point in their history. The most symptomatic sign of what was, in fact, a structural crisis was a series of popular revolts which appeared most prominently among the Muslim Turkish population of Anatolia. Known as the Celali revolts, these uprisings developed into open civil war against the forces of the Ottoman state, and in their first phase lasted approximately fifteen years, from 1595 to 1610.

History Regained: A Modern Artist in Baghdad Encounters a Lost Tradition of Painting

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleem Al-Bahloly
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Cultural Renewal ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Nation ◽  
European Modernism

Abstract This essay explores how the re-encounter with a medieval history of manuscript illustration laid a foundation for the practice of modern art in Iraq. It focuses on the artist Jewad Selim (1919–61) and his discovery of Yahya al-Wasiti’s illustrations of the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, but it also marks the ways in which that discovery was mediated by the enterprise of orientalist scholarship, the context of European modernism, and the broader cultural renewal that occurred with the collapse of the Ottoman empire and the creation of new nation-states in the Middle East.

Arabic in contact with English in Asia

English Today ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azirah Hashim ◽  
Gerhard Leitner ◽  
Mohammed Al Aqad
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Trade Network ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Language ◽  
The Impact

Arabic has a long history of contact with languages outside the Middle East (Lapidus, 2015; Beg, 1979). In Asia, the spread of Arabic began with the trade network that connected the Middle East with South Asia, South-East, East Asia and East Africa from the fifth century. It intensified with the rise of Islam from the seventh century onwards (Morgan & Reid, 2010; Azirah & Leitner, 2016). In this paper we investigate the impact of Arabic on today's English in the context of Asian Englishes. More specifically we ask if the contact of Arabic with English in Asia has led to the creation of an Arabic-Islamic layer of English in countries that have a majority or a significant minority of Muslims. Would such a layer add a new dimension to the texture of English and be integrative across national Englishes? Or would it be divisive inside individual countries? In order to explore such issues we created a corpus of Arabic loanwords in Asian Englishes. Such a database will contribute to a better coverage of the impact of Arabic in dictionaries and to the study of English as a (multiple) national, regional and global language.

scholarly journals The Druze in the Middle East

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Sean Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Lebanese Civil War ◽  
Personal Letter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sacred Topography

In A History of the Druze, Kais Firro suggests that the proliferation of workson the Druze over the last twenty years has resulted from this community’sprominent role in the Lebanese civil war. While such circumstances are, ofcourse, regrettable, any notice taken of this small, secretive, and often overlookedsociety is welcome. Nissim Dana, a lecturer in academic religionsand cultures of peoples in the Middle East at Bar-Ilan University and formerminister of religious affairs in Israel, would no doubt explain his interest andclear warmth for his subject in different terms, as the personal letter includedfrom Labib Abu Rukn, judge of the Druze Court of Haifa, attests. It is this affection, however, which may be at the heart of some of this extremelyuneven investigation’s shortcomings.The author has chosen to divide his work into four parts, each dealingwith the history, sociocultural make-up, sacred topography, and the lawsgoverning the Druze in their respective states, most notably in Israel (towhich a third of the text is devoted) – a most pronounced focus. The book isrounded out with an appendix of the “Arabic Original of the Laws ofPersonal Status in Lebanon and Israel” and an abbreviated version for Syria,which is a welcome addition for those who read Arabic ...

Prologue

Goat Castle ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The South ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
National Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Slave Trade

The prologue introduces Natchez, Mississippi, and the principals involved in a murder that made national headlines. It provides the history of the planter aristocracy, explains perceptions of the South in the 1930s, the Natchez pilgrimage, the domestic slave trade, the national media attention, and attempts by earlier writers to document the story. Well known families include the Merrills, the Minors, and the Danas. There is also some discussion of Mississippi during the Civil War and the Cotton Kingdom.

Wrong from the Start

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isa Blumi
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Close Inspection ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation ◽  
North And South

The migratory, labor, cultural and administrative history of the both North and South Yemen has been neglected. By exploring through Cold War era documents just how invested various internal actors were in transforming Southern Arabia’s relations with the larger world it is possible to add another angle of interpretation to the larger book’s project. It is argued that by leveraging competing external interests, a new set of operatives within Yemen’s political classes emerge. Looking closely at the manner in which the British global empire provided an interactive context for Yemenis, it is possible to highlight the global threads linking indigenous politics with the larger world. Be they Marxist inspired guerrillas whose use of violence help expel Britain from South Yemen in the late 1960s, the early advocates for a retrenchment of Salafist orthodoxy (with deep links to Saudi Arabia), or those merchant families long servicing the trade networks linking Southeast Asia, East Africa with the Middle East, Yemen’s new generation of political actor receives close inspection throughout this chapter.

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