Hamidian Palestine

Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872-1908
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20569-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 620 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1258 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

During the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, modern state institutions were established in Palestine, while national identities had not yet developed. Hamidian Palestine explores how the inhabitants of the Ottoman District of Jerusalem interacted with each other and how they organised their interests in a historical moment before ‘Arabs’ and ‘Jews’ emerged as the central political categories in the country. Based on a wide range of Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew sources, the book examines the social and political relations of Palestinians from a wide variety of perspectives. By situating individual case studies within larger contexts such as modernisation, regionalisation and state-building, it allows Palestinian society to be compared with other local societies within the Ottoman Empire and beyond.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the social and political history of modern Palestine and the Ottoman Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Büssow, Johann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of Figures. ix
List of Maps. xiii
List of Text Boxes. xv
List of Abbreviations. xvii
Months of the Islamic Hijri Calendar, in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. xix
Note on Transliteration. xxi
Acknowledgements. xxiii

Introduction. 1
Temporal and Geographic Scope of the Study. 5
Concepts. 6
Historiography. 13
Sources. 16
Structure of the Study. 36

PART I
IMPERIAL POLITICS
Chapter One The Making of a Province. 41
Drawing Boundaries: The Creation of the District of Jerusalem. 41
Building Institutions: Translating the Tanzimat Reforms in Local Contexts. 59
Formalised Avenues of Local Participation. 71
The District Government’s Budget. 81
Conclusion. 95

PART II
EVERYDAY POLITICS
Chapter Two Making Spaces: Regionalisation through Everyday Practices. 103
Chapter Three The Highlands. 106
Jerusalem and Jabal al-Quds.

Über Autor(innen)

Büssow, Johann
Johann Büssow, PhD (2008) in Middle Eastern Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, is a research associate at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. His fields of research include the social and political history of the modern Middle East and modern Islamic thought.