... history and the discursive bounds of area and (post)colonial studies. More recently—and ostensibly as part of a larger turn away from area studies toward comparative, transcultural, transregional, and global studies—the burgeoning field of Mediterranean studies has put this resurgent category into massive...

... or so, particularly the shift toward maritime conceptions of space (Mediterranean, Indian Ocean), which though by no means new have breathed new life into the study of the premodern and colonial/modern history of the Middle East. The rise of global and connected history has similar implications...

...Julia Stephens Abstract This Kitabkhana contribution situates Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History within recent trends in the field of legal history. Doumani's hybrid method, which combines quantitative analysis with qualitative case studies, presents...

..., Hadhramawt to Java, Zanzibar to Oman, Awadh to Karbala and Najaf, and the Zanj to Shiraz. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Indian Ocean Mediterranean studies Middle East I would like to acknowledge Richard Bulliet, Jeffery Dyer, Aimee Genell, Christine Philliou, and Nurfadzilah Yahaya...

... Purcell Nicholas . The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History . Malden, MA : Blackwell , 2000 . International Congress for Modern Architecture . La Charte d’Athènes . Paris : Plon , 1943 . Maalouf Amin . Leo Africanus . Translated by Sluglett Peter . New York...

... to spatially bounded analytical frames, Ghazal proposes, is the network. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 networks Ibadism Middle East Mediterranean Africa Indian Ocean Zanzibar al-Busaidi Empire Mzab Nahda Islamic Reform print Arabic press area studies Funding...

... on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the complexity of the Ottoman legal landscape. They also suggest new directions in which Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean could...

... with the wealth of scholarship on the North Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, 2 the study of the Indian Ocean is a relatively new field. Since the pioneering historical scholarship of K. N. Chaudhuri, Abdul Sheriff, Edward Alpers, and Sugata Bose put the Indian Ocean rim on the global academic map, two...

... . Al-Timbuktawi Ahmad Bakr al-Qadi Abi Ibrahim Yusuf b. Hatk al-Sitr Amma Alayhi Sudani Tunus min al-Kufr . 1813 . MS. Bibliothèque Nationale , Tunis . Austen Ralph A. “ The Mediterranean Islamic Slave Trade out of Africa: A Tentative Census .” In Human...

... History: Lewis, Martin W., and Karen Wigen. “A Maritime Re- Comparing the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean sponse to the Crisis in Area Studies.” Geographical through Barcelona and Bombay.” History Compass 11, Review 89, no. 2 (1999): 161 – 68. no. 7 (2013): 513 – 23...

... followers and manumitted slaves” (96). In sum, Doumani's study makes crucial contributions to the study of the family and kinship in the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond. He unsettles recurrent assumptions about the narrative of modernization in the region, seeing that narrative as moving from an Arab...

... the Mediterranean became mare clausum. Subsequently, it demonstrates how a rivaling seaborne genealogy of sovereignty and governmentality complicates the standard Foucauldian narrative of the emergence of governmentality. In contrast to the classic land-based history of sovereignty and governmentality, a seaborne...

... York : New Amsterdam Books , 1989 . Gubara Dahlia . “ Review of Terence Walz and Kenneth Cuno, eds .” Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean . Der Islam 88 , no. 1 ( 2012 ): 205...

...Alexis Wick The invention of the Mediterranean as a coherent analytical concept dates back to early nineteenth-century Europe, just as the new academic disciplines of history, geography, and Orientalism were being institutionalized, amid the wider transformation of the order of words and things...

... and the sea while focusing on the maritime region that merchants, maroons, navies, and revolutionaries have navigated for millennia: namely, the salty waterways linking the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman, and the Arabian Sea. This collection of essays also...

... and universally accepted by jurists across the Islamic Mediterranean and beyond, as evinced by the early tenth-century CE treatise Kitab Akriyat al-Sufun , as well as earlier jurisprudential queries. The Islamic principles of business ethics laid down in the Sunnah received due attention in early and classical...

... conceptions of Islam. We close this issue with a Kitabkhana on Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean . The words family and religion are frequently cited in histories of the modern Middle East, but, as Doumani argues, they are rarely historicized on their own terms. His book...

... Europe and toward what the book s cover calls the Middle East but the author more ap- propriately refers to as the Eastern Mediterranean; and brings together an exhaustive analysis of the activities and intentions of Western do- gooders with a forceful and nuanced argument for the im- portance of local...

.... of Egypt, as for instance the chapter on Egypt in Grant, The Ancient 140 lhid., 4 14,428-29. Mediterranean. 141 Ibid., p. 418-23. No doubt, too, this echoes the experience of many in other fields of study - the ranking of journals, the more con- 169 Du Bois, Black...

... the serpent dwelling inside. These puttu or termite hills are sometimes transformed into little stone temples, and a sculpture of a goddess called “Puttu Amman” is placed on top of it. This article will attempt to explain the meaning of this popular cult and its possible connections with ancient mediterranean...