... alism, perhaps, at least of the Ottoman sort, is not. In other words, the Ottoman Empire as an an as Empire Ottoman the words, other not.In is sort, Ottoman ofthe atleast perhaps, alism, Rights, PaternalRights, Privilege, and Gender in French Syria andLeba- Verso, Elizabeth 1999...

... of particular authoritative nation-states. Amid ongoing efforts to author singular metanarratives of the history of the Wahhabi movement of Arabia, alternative histories from the Ottoman perspective are often overlooked or simply dismissed. While the result tends to be the sort of linear history that favors...

...Isa Blumi Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Teaching Loyalty in the Late Ottoman Balkans: Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 Isa Blumi Over the past thirty years scholars have paid a great deal sought by the sultan...

...Benjamin C. Fortna Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2002 Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin C. Fortna Few would deny the centrality of reading to modern so- hand, and the flimsiness of the underlying evidence...

... 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish, exacerbated, accord- pline (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001). Pp...

... Book Reviews 75 SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL, The Modernization of Public Education in ious minorities) closer to the center, but the very act of cen- the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908: Islamization, Autocracy and Disci- tralization, implying the use of Turkish...

...Nada Moumtaz Abstract This essay engages Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean . It highlights Doumani's significant deconstruction of the culturalist assumptions of the category of the Arabor Muslim family. Based on the wealth of the archive uncovered by Doumani, the essay...

...Beyza Lorenz Abstract Building on recent scholarship on postcolonial theory and the history of the modern Middle East, this article analyzes the viewpoints of late nineteenth-century Ottoman novelists on the modernization projects of the Tanzimat and post-Tanzimat periods. It argues...

...Lâle Can; Aimee M. Genell Abstract Were Ottoman autonomous provinces nation-states in the making or signs of a semicolonial and irredeemably weak empire? Or, were they evidence of alternative arrangements of imperial sovereignty? By taking a long view of Ottoman history and examining “exceptional...

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...Virginia H. Aksan Duke University Press 2007 Pearson, Longman, 2007). man Wars 1700–1870: An Empire Besieged inmy developed fully more are here discussed ideas The of extension the from resulting Empire Ottoman the and India British in ofsocieties...

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... But it was constitutionally and psychologically Empire man Otto- ofthe part remained Egypt provinces. Ottoman southern the and India British tween century. nineteenth the into persisted such asthe relatively greater importance of local nobility in India, these sharp differences Maratha fl trasted...

... and Kurdistan and the foot”:Imagining the Ottoman Empire Asia, Africa and the Middle East Middle the and Africa Asia, Politics,” Fragmented and Identity Fragmented ‘Others’: Their and Kurds Vali,“The Abbas e.g., See, 1. principalities’ Kurdish extentofthe...

...Avner Wishnitzer The limited scholarship on late Ottoman nightlife focused mainly on street lighting and described it as a solution to the problem of darkness, the end of a dark age. However, as Wishnitzer shows in this article, the nightlife scene of the late nineteenth century did not develop...

...Adam Mestyan This essay focuses on the month of Ramadan and its end celebration, ‘Id al-Fitr , the Festival of Breaking the Fast, in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the second half of the nineteenth century. What was the effect of new technologies and urbanization on these Muslim practices...

...Ismael M. Montana Between 1512 and 1574, after they halted Spain’s imperial and colonial ambitions, with the exception of Morocco the Ottomans in turn occupied the Maghrib. To administer this new eyalets (provinces), which was now incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans introduced...

... the latest developments in agricultural practice and administration. Representatives from the Ottoman Empire were active participants in the institute's early activities. This article traces their contributions to the institute's formative debates that aimed to set international standards as well...

... Sultan Abdülhamid II's transformation into a private landed property owner with the separation of his privy purse from the state treasury in the early 1880s, to show that despite the distinctive specificities of Ottoman law, institutions, and imperial finances, all three monarchs used private ownership...

... experience with mortality, I look at the state's role in the management of dead bodies, by tracing the origins of the establishment of extramural communal cemeteries. This task involves locating the growing powers of the Ottoman state that sought to govern not only the living but also the dead. In other...