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Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East - "Modernities" in the Making (Hardcover)
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Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East - "Modernities" in the Making (Hardcover)
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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 gradual change in the longue
duree, challenging the current discourse on the relationship
between society, culture, and law. The focus of the discussion
shifts from an external to an internal perspective, as agency
transitions from "the West" to local actors in the region.
Highlighting the ongoing interaction between internal processes and
external stimuli, and using primary sources in Arabic and Ottoman
Turkish, the authors and editors bring out the variety of
modernities that shaped south-eastern Mediterranean history. The
first part of the volume interrogates the urban elite household,
the main social, political, and economic unit of networking in
Ottoman societies. The second part addresses the complex
relationship between law and culture, looking at how the legal
system, conceptually and practically, undergirded the
socio-cultural aspects of life in the Middle East. Society, Law,
and Culture in the Middle East consists of eleven chapters, written
by well-established and younger scholars working in the field of
Middle East and Islamic Studies. The editors, Dror Ze'evi and Ehud
R. Toledano, are both leading historians, who have published
extensively on Middle Eastern societies in the Ottoman and
post-Ottoman periods.
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