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Society, law, and culture in the Middle East : "modernities" in the making /

Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:"Modernities" in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies during the Ottoman period. It offers an in-depth analysis of reforms and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zeʼevi, Dror (Editor ), Tôledānô, Ehûd R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open, [2015]
©2015
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Unpacking Middle East Modernities
  • Social Transformation and the State in the Middle East
  • Part I: Unpacking Society
  • 1 Banishment, Confiscation, and the Instability of the Ottoman Elite Household
  • 2 The Religious Endowments of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi: The Waqf Institution and the Survival of Ottoman Elite Households
  • 3 To be a Voyvoda in Diyarbakır: Socio-Political Change in an 18th-Century Ottoman Province
  • Part II: Unpacking Law and Culture
  • 4 Where Have All the People Gone? A Critique of Medieval Islamic Historiography
  • 5 According to His Exalted Ḳânûn: Contending Visions of the Muftiship in the Ottoman Province of Damascus (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
  • 6 The Slave, the Governor, and the Judge: An Ottoman Socio-Legal Drama from the Late Nineteenth Century
  • 7 The Policeman and State Policy: Police Accountability, Civilian Entitlements, and Ottoman Modernism, 1840–1860s
  • 8 “At Approximately Eleven, Just Before Nightfall”: An Introduction to Ottoman Temporal Culture
  • 9 How to Work on Social History in the Egyptian Archives: Some Thoughts
  • Bibliography
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Index