Middle Eastern Jews and the Urban Ecology of Late Ottoman Palestine

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Michal Ben Ya’akov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Late Ottoman

Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor, Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2016. 269 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 330-332
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Ottoman

Oriental Neighbors is a timely intervention in the study of the modern history of Israel/Palestine, and in the debate regarding ethnic relations in Israel. Recent years have seen an invigorated discussion of late Ottoman Palestine’s Jewish communities and their place in the emergent Zionist-Arab conflict. There is also an intensified conversation concerning the discrimination against and exclusion of Mizrahi Jews in Jewish Israeli society since 1948. This book provides a crucial link by focusing on relations between Mizrahi Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine. (In the review I will follow the authors’ use of the term Oriental Jews)....

Imperial paths, big comparisons: the late Ottoman Empire

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cem Emrence
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Ottoman History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman

AbstractThe main goals of this article are to review historiographical trends and set new directions for late Ottoman history. First, the paper demonstrates that current research on the late Ottoman Empire still operates within the confines of the centre–periphery model, and sustains dualistic and state-centred narratives. Second, I argue that a ‘historical trajectory’ framework is a better analytical tool and empirical strategy. It is spatial, path-dependent, and comparative. With special reference to the Middle Eastern provinces, I show that the Ottoman Empire was characterized by distinct imperial paths during the nineteenth century, each representing an alternative route to state–society and local–global relations. The article further suggests that a trajectory-specific approach can provide new prospects for understanding Eurasian land-based empires from a comparative perspective.

“NATIONALISM” AND KURDISH NOTABLES IN THE LATE OTTOMAN–EARLY REPUBLICAN ERA

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Özoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
World War ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Hard Data ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Early Republican ◽  
Late Ottoman

The era culminating in World War I saw a transition from multinational empires to nation-states. Large empires such as the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman searched for ways to cope with the decline of their political control, while peoples in these empires shifted their political loyalties to nation-states. The Ottoman Empire offers a favorable canvas for studying new nationalisms that resulted in many successful and unsuccessful attempts to form nation-states. As an example of successful attempts, Arab nationalism has received the attention that it deserves in the field of Middle Eastern studies.1 Students have engaged in many complex debates on different aspects of Arab nationalism, enjoying a wealth of hard data. Studies on Kurdish nationalism, however, are still in their infancy. Only a very few scholars have addressed the issue in a scholarly manner.2 We still have an inadequate understanding of the nature of early Kurdish nationalism and its consequences for the Middle East in general and Turkish studies in particular. Partly because of the subject's political sensitivity, many scholars shy away from it. However, a consideration of Kurdish nationalism as an example of unsuccessful attempts to form a nation-state can contribute greatly to the study of nationalism in the Middle East.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL FOREWORD

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Beth Baron ◽  
Sara Pursley
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Local Analysis ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Third ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
Late Ottoman Empire ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
Editorial Foreword

The first three articles in this issue, grouped under the heading “Politics and Cultures of Capitalism,” address various ways that Middle Eastern actors dealt with European capitalist expansion in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They all focus on cultural and political aspects of economic change and maintain a global perspective while constructing an intensely local analysis. Gad Gilbar and Jens Hanssen trace specific institutions and networks in Qajar Iran and the late Ottoman Empire, respectively, that operated within what Hanssen calls the “interstices” of state bureaucracy, local business concerns, and European expansion. The interstitial nature of the arguments made by both authors is underlined by the impressive range of sources they draw on: Persian, British, Russian, German, and French in the case of Gilbar and Turkish, Arabic, German, British, and French in the case of Hanssen. The third article, by Nancy Reynolds, takes us from late Qajar and Ottoman societies to Egypt during the first half of the 20th century and from general commerce to the marketing and consumption of particular commodities.

Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Ferree Womack
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Evangelical Church ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
Public Speakers ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Late Ottoman ◽  
Critical Link

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon during the Ottoman Empire - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria offers a fresh narrative of the encounters of this minority Protestant community with American Presbyterian missionaries, Eastern churches and Muslims at the height of the Nahda (or Arab renaissance), from 1860 to 1915. Drawing on rare Arabic publications, the book challenges histories that focus on Western male actors. Instead it shows that Syrian Protestant women and men were agents of their own history who sought the salvation and modernization of Syria while adapting and challenging missionary teachings. These pioneers included scholars, poets, novelists, activists, school teachers, Protestant pastors, evangelistic preachers, Biblewomen, and public speakers. Such Syrian Protestants established a critical link between evangelical religiosity and the socio-cultural currents of the Nahda, making possible the literary and educational achievements of the American Syria Mission and transforming Syrian society in ways that still endure today. Locating Syrian Protestant narratives within American, Ottoman, and global histories, this book brings Middle Eastern Studies into conversation with the field of World Christianity and explores questions of American-Arab relations and gender roles in the Islamic world.

Concubines and Courtesans

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Female Slaves ◽  
Late Ottoman

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History contains 16 essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and premodern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (music, poetry, and dance), sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time. They range over nearly 1,000 years of Islamic history—from the early, formative period (7th–10th century CE) to the late Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal eras (16th–18th century CE)—and regions from al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) to Central Asia (Timurid Iran). The close, common thread joining the essays is an effort to account for the lives, careers, and representations of female slaves and freed women participating in and contributing to elite urban society of the Islamic realm. Interest in a gendered approach to Islamic history, society, and religion has, by now, deep roots in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. The shared aim of the essays collected here is to get at the wealth of these topics and to underscore their centrality to a firm grasp on Islamic and Middle Eastern history.

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