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In this seminal study, Jane Hathaway presents a wide-ranging
reassessment of the effects of Ottoman rule on the Arab Lands of
Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq and Yemen - the first of its kind in
over forty years. Challenging outmoded perceptions of this period
as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism and Arab
nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hathaway
depicts an era of immense social, cultural, economic and political
change which helped to shape the foundations of today's modern
Middle and Near East. Taking full advantage of a wide range of
Arabic and Ottoman primary sources, she examines the changing
fortunes of not only the political elite but also the broader
population of merchants, shopkeepers, peasants, tribal populations,
religious scholars, women, and ethnic and religious minorities who
inhabited this diverse and volatile region. With masterly concision
and clarity, Hathaway guides the reader through all the key current
approaches to and debates surrounding Arab society during this
period. This is far more than just another political history; it is
a global study which offers an entirely new perspective on the era
and region as a whole.
From the bestselling author of "Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits"
comes a new and comical contemporary take on the perennial Jane
Austen classic, "Emma."
Caroline Ashley is a journalist on the rise at "The Washington
Post" until the sudden death of her father brings her back to
Thorny Hollow to care for her mentally fragile mother and their
aging antebellum home. The only respite from the eternal rotation
of bridge club meetings and garden parties is her longtime friend,
Brooks Elliott. A professor of journalism, Brooks is the voice of
sanity and reason in the land of pink lemonade and triple layer
coconut cakes. But when she meets a fascinating, charismatic young
man on the cusp of a brand new industry, she ignores Brooks's
misgivings and throws herself into the project.
Brooks struggles to reconcile his parents' very bitter marriage
with his father's devastating grief at the recent loss of his wife.
Caroline is the only bright spot in the emotional wreckage of his
family life. She's a friend and he's perfectly happy to keep her
safely in that category. Marriage isn't for men like Brooks and
they both know it... until a handsome newcomer wins her heart.
Brooks discovers Caroline is much more than a friend, and always
has been, but is it too late to win her back?
Featuring a colorful cast of southern belles, Civil War
re-enactors, and good Christian women with spunk to spare, "Emma,
Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs" brings the modern American
South to light in a way only a contemporary Jane Austen could have
imagined.
The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman
rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
between 1516 and 1800. Drawing attention to the important history
of these regions, the book challenges outmoded perceptions of this
period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism
and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
As well as exploring political events and developments, it delves
into the extensive social, cultural, and economic changes that
helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near
East. In doing so, it provides a detailed view of society,
incorporating all socio-economic classes, as well as women,
religious minorities, and slaves. This second edition has been
significantly revised and updated and reflects the developments in
research and scholarship since the publication of the first
edition. Engaging with a wide range of primary sources and enhanced
by a variety of maps and images to illustrate the text, The Arab
Lands under Ottoman Rule is a unique and essential resource for
students of early modern Ottoman history and the early modern
Middle East.
Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in
all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity.
The contributors explore the development and transformation of
identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer
engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by
drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in
English translation for the first time. These materials are
examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper
understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a
course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions
for further reading.
The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule assesses the effects of Ottoman
rule on the Arab Lands of Egypt, Greater Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
between 1516 and 1800. Drawing attention to the important history
of these regions, the book challenges outmoded perceptions of this
period as a demoralizing prelude to the rise of Arab nationalism
and Arab nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
As well as exploring political events and developments, it delves
into the extensive social, cultural, and economic changes that
helped to shape the foundations of today's modern Middle and Near
East. In doing so, it provides a detailed view of society,
incorporating all socio-economic classes, as well as women,
religious minorities, and slaves. This second edition has been
significantly revised and updated and reflects the developments in
research and scholarship since the publication of the first
edition. Engaging with a wide range of primary sources and enhanced
by a variety of maps and images to illustrate the text, The Arab
Lands under Ottoman Rule is a unique and essential resource for
students of early modern Ottoman history and the early modern
Middle East.
This book explores the life of el-Hajj Beshir Agha (ca. 1657-1746),
the most powerful Chief Harem Eunuch in the history of the Ottoman
Empire. In this capacity, he helped to shape and propagate the
official Ottoman brand of Sunni Islam.El-Hajj Beshir was one of
hundreds of East African eunuchs who served as guards and
interlocutors for the imperial mothers, sisters, wives, and
concubines who inhabited Topkapy Palace's enormous harem. Enslaved
in his native Ethiopia as a boy, then castrated in Egypt, Beshir
may initially have been purchased by one of Egypt's grandees before
being introduced into the palace. Once installed in the palace, he
quickly rose through the ranks of harem eunuchs to become harem
treasurer by 1707. The mosques, theological schools, sufi lodges,
and libraries that he founded throughout the empire helped to shape
the religious and intellectual profile of the Ottoman state.
A concise history of the Muslim countries. It begins with Rome and
Persia and the pre-Islamic Bedouins and ends with the fall of
Baghdad to the Mongols (1258), and in the West with the fall of
Granada to the Christians (1492). The author seeks to unravel the
many motivations and influences that went into the making of
Islamic history and to expound and evaluate them. He frequently
reminds the reader of economic and cultural developments taking
place at the same time as, and often in intimate connection with,
the more overtly political events. In her introduction, Jane
Hathaway shows the connection between the history of Islamic
civilization and world history.
Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of
civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward.
Its reach extended from Cordoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and
developed the tradition of wealth, cultural and artistic
achievement, and thriving urban life which it had absorbed from its
predecessors, the civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Persia and
the ancient cities of the Middle East. It is this Islamic economy
and civilization which the author portrays at its height and
brilliantly sets into its context of satellite, in part
semi-civilized, peripheral worlds - black North Africa, the
barbarian West, the region of Russian rivers, and the Byzantine
Empire. The book is considered a masterpiece of the Annales school
of French historians.
The multi-volume chronicle of the Cairo scholar Abd al-Rahman
al-Jabarti (1754-1825), known in Arabic as Caja-'ib al-atha-r
fi-al-tara-jim wa-al-akhba-r, which translates roughly as The Most
Wondrous Achievements: Biographies and Reports of Events, is the
single most important primary source for the history of Egypt over
nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule (1517-1882). This text,
compiled by editor Jane Hathaway to appeal to the general reader as
well as scholars of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, is a collection
of excerpts from al-Jabarti's history, providing a multifaceted
overview of Egyptian society during the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. The selections cover key political developments,
including various power struggles and the French occupation, and
offer telling glimpses of Egyptian society at large: the role of
the Muslim scholar-officials and their interaction with the
political authorities; the activities of merchants, shopkeepers,
peasants, and tribespeople; the status of women and non-Muslims;
and popular reaction to warfare, plagues, natural disasters, food
shortages, and price increases. A general introduction and a brief
introductory passage to each major excerpt help to place this
indispensable primary source in its proper historical and social
context.
Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in
all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity.
The contributors explore the development and transformation of
identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer
engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by
drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in
English translation for the first time. These materials are
examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper
understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a
course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions
for further reading.
Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies
that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an
in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the
harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are
used to analyze the Chief Eunuch's origins in East Africa and his
political, economic, and religious role from the inception of his
office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the
palace harem in the early twentieth century. Hathaway highlights
the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs
developed in East Africa, as well as exploring the Chief Eunuch's
connections to Egypt and Medina. By tracing the evolution of the
office, we see how the Chief Eunuch's functions changed in response
to transformations in Ottoman society, from the generalized crisis
of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the
nineteenth century.
In a lucidly argued revisionist study of military society in Ottoman Egypt, Jane Hathaway contends that the basic framework within which this elite operated was the household, a conglomerate of patron-client ties. Using Turkish and Arabic archival sources, the author focuses on the Qazdagli household, a military group that came to dominate Egypt. This pioneering study will have a major impact on the understanding of Egyptian history, and will be essential reading for scholars in the field, and for premodern historians generally.
This is the first book to address the topic of mutiny in and of
itself, or to present mutiny in a comparative framework. The
fourteen contributors, a mixture of military, social, and political
historians, examine instances of mutiny that occurred from ancient
to modern times and on nearly every continent. Their findings call
into question standard definitions of mutiny, while shedding new
light on the patterns that mutiny tends to take, as well as the
interactions that can occur between mutinous soldiers and
surrounding civilian societies. While standard definitions of
mutiny emphasize mass defiance by rank-and-file soldiers of the
orders of their military superiors, the essays here demonstrate
that mutiny can often take other forms.
Mutiny could consist of mass desertion, insurgency in the face
of competing military and political authorities, or lengthy strings
of strikes and assassinations against military and political
superiors. The threat of mutiny, furthermore, could be as potent as
an actual outbreak. Areas studied include early modern Europe, the
Ottoman Empire, the antebellum United States, the British Empire,
revolutionary Russia, the emerging nation-states of Latin America,
imperial and Communist China, fascist Italy, war-torn Vietnam, and
Nasser's Egypt. In the concluding section, contributors assess
commemorations of mutiny and how they are modified or distorted in
the process of their incorporation into official and popular
memory.
In a lucidly argued revisionist study of Ottoman Egypt, first
published in 1996, Jane Hathaway challenges the traditional view
that Egypt's military elite constituted a revival of the
institutions of the Mamluk sultanate. The author contends that the
framework within which this elite operated was the household, a
conglomerate of patron-client ties that took various forms. In this
respect, she argues, Egypt's elite represented a provincial
variation on an empire-wide, household-based political culture. The
study focuses on the Qazdagli household. Originally, a largely
Anatolian contingent within Egypt's Janissary regiment, the
Qazdaglis dominated Egypt by the late eighteenth century. Using
Turkish and Arabic archival sources, Jane Hathaway sheds light on
the manner in which the Qazdaglis exploited the Janissary rank
hierarchy, while forming strategic alliances through marriage,
commercial partnerships and the patronage of palace eunuchs.
Eunuchs were a common feature of pre- and early modern societies
that are now poorly understood. Here, Jane Hathaway offers an
in-depth study of the chief of the African eunuchs who guarded the
harem of the Ottoman Empire. A wide range of primary sources are
used to analyze the Chief Eunuch's origins in East Africa and his
political, economic, and religious role from the inception of his
office in the late sixteenth century through the dismantling of the
palace harem in the early twentieth century. Hathaway highlights
the origins of the institution and how the role of eunuchs
developed in East Africa, as well as exploring the Chief Eunuch's
connections to Egypt and Medina. By tracing the evolution of the
office, we see how the Chief Eunuch's functions changed in response
to transformations in Ottoman society, from the generalized crisis
of the seventeenth century to the westernizing reforms of the
nineteenth century.
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