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Untold Histories of the Middle East : Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics. With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Palestine, this book considers how and why such silences occur.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Colección: | SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Re-sounding silent voices; Part I: Missing women; 1 Unravelling layers of gendered silencing: Converted Armenian survivors of the 1915 catastrophe; 2 Interfaith unions and non-Muslim wives in early twentieth-century Alexandrian Islamic courts; 3 The silence of the pregnant bride: Non-marital sex in Middle Eastern societies; Part II: Marginal lives; 4 Silent voices within the elites: The social biography of a modern shaykh.
- 5 A nationalist discourse of heroism and treason: The construction of an 'official' image of Çerkes Ethem (1886-1948) in Turkish historiography, and recent challenges6 On the margins of national historiography: The Greek Ittihatçi Emmanouil Emmanouilidis
- opportunist or Ottoman patriot?; 7 The Ottoman Empire's absent nineteenth century: Autonomous subjects; 8 Looking behind Hajji Baba of Ispahan: The case of Mirza Abul Hasan Khan Ilchi Shirazi; Part III: Memories of conflicts; 9 Between the Balkan Wars).