..., the article highlights the particularities of our own contemporary and asks a series of questions about how the present moment might inspire us to approach anew late medieval Ottoman architectural practices. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2018 Ottoman Bernard...

..., the essay discusses how Koçu's archival practice, guided by his melancholia for the Ottoman Empire, operated as both a form of political resistance and a strategy for queer self-making. Focusing on the conservative politics of neo-Ottomanism in contemporary Turkey, the essay investigates the reconfiguration...

... leading representatives from Iran and the Ottoman Empire, explicitly or implicitly negotiated the tortuous parameters of national and cultural particularism, on the one hand, and what they construed as universal values, on the other hand, as well as the modes...

... avoiding Ottoman conscription in the First World War.5 His prominent and well- connected family enabled him to forge ties with people throughout the elite. He made his more public commentaries in his frequent editorials and essays published in the party’s...

... Historiography of Ottoman Rule .” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 14 , no. 2 ( 1982 ): 185 – 201 . Abourahme Nasser , and Salamanca Omar Jabary . “ Thinking against the Sovereignty of the Concept .” City 20 , no. 5 ( 2016 ), 737 – 54 . Abu-Rish Ziad...

..., a passing complaint about a coffee shop gathering, an advertisement, a runaway notice, an engraving of a street scene — providing access to the histories of Ottomans, Africans, Native Americans, Asians, and others born outside Christian Europe. Reconstituting early modern Europe’s history from...

... and societies from the seventh century until the seventeenth century (e.g., in the shape of the Ummayed and Abbasid dynasties from A.D. 651-1259, or the Ottoman empire after the fifteenth centu- ry). Other than the relatively small Middle Eastern territories direct- ly affected by the Crusades...

... later—in the rallying cries of Pan-Islamists defending the Ottoman Empire. Another way to contextualize the URC is to relocate it in what we might call, after Eric Hobsbawm, the “little age of revolution” that spread across Russia, Iran, the Ottoman Empire...

... critique of late capitalist modes of political and cultural domination. Saygın Salgırlı’s “Radicalizing Premodern Space: A Perspective from the Late Medieval Ottoman World” is inspired by recent political events that extend from Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring and the Gezi Park Protests...

.... Much of the nationalist historiography of the modern Middle East brackets the colonial period, treating it as a gap between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of fully independent nation-states after World War II. In contrast, these two works argue...

...- researched archives. Shafir locates the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the struggle over the land and labor markets on the frontier of Zionist settlement in Palestine during the last years of Ottoman rule-the period corresponding to the first and second ‘aliyot. This analysis...

... with the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. While most Palestin- ian artists were self-taught and their paintings depicted landscapes and religious scenes in imitation of the European style, overall the discipline was not honed and art exhibitions were conspicuously absent. While Palestinian...

... of the public sphere and the rise of the press after the 1908 Ottoman Constitutional Revolution coincided with an accumulation of incidents whereby colonists violently displaced peasants from lands bought from absentee landlords. As Rashid Khalidi has long argued, growing awareness of these incidents...

... pow- ers. Nowadays, the “Middle East” encompasses a larger region and many more countries, particularly after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and the redrawing of the map of the former Arab territories by Britain and France, which...

.... For example, in the diplomatic wrangling that preceded the grant by Said Pasha (ruler of the Ottoman province of Egypt, 1854–63) of the concession to build the Suez Canal to Ferdinand de Lesseps, the preeminent French capitalist and entrepreneur, the latter promised that he would use the latest machinery...

... Confucian norms to carve out a sphere of autonomy for themselves yet ultimately leaving the dominant gender system intact. Topic: Gender, Islam, and the Ottoman Empire Leslie Peirce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 3–90...

... of the current irrigation system were set, making the study of the design and construction of the dam as important as its effects. Before discussing how Egyptian water policy changed, one must first understand what it developed from. Egyptian Agriculture before the Aswan Dam Under the Ottoman Empire...

...- ical frontiers of the Arab Middle East. As the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, intel- lectuals in the Middle East were attracted to ideas of reform and nationhood in Europe and in Meiji Japan. Due to our particular expertise, we looked primarily...

... of authoritarianism-one form I d gentle authoritarianism, the other brutal authoritarianism. Following in historian Bernard Lewis's footsteps, he xts up the Ottoman Empire as "the most enduring example" of gentle authoritarianism. He contrasts this with the "brutal authoritarian" stream, 'totally despotic...

... Review editorial collective. He is currently revising a book manu- script titled “Crossing the Boundaries of Belief: The Geographies of Religious Conversion in Southern Germany, 1648–1800.” He is also beginning two new research projects on Ottoman prisoners...