Journal ArticlePast & Present · August 23, 2024
AbstractThis article argues that the microhistorical analysis of one specific industrial enterprise offers a useful perspective from which to study local participation in global industrialization and to unit ...
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Book · January 1, 2023
In this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process of “recycling empire.” Mestyan shows that in the post-World War I Middle East ...
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Journal ArticleLaw and History Review · November 1, 2022
In this article, we explore the probate regime, an administrative field of government activity of legally transferring, taxing, and administering bequests. As an example, we study the changes of the Egyptian probate regime in a longue durée perspective, wi ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Global History · 2022
AbstractThis article explores the making of the State of Syria after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. I argue that an event-based approach in global legal history offers a useful perspective for studying the trans ...
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Journal ArticleContemporary European History · November 1, 2021
Historians often look for genealogies of nationalism in Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman imperial history. In this article, I use an inter-imperial framework to argue that the formative period of contemporary Eastern Mediterranean-European regionalism was the ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2021
This book contains the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of a unique manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. The author is a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). He wrote th ...
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Dataset · December 28, 2020
Bibliographical data set for all periodicals published globally in Arabic (or Arabic plus additional languages) between 1800 and 1929. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient · January 1, 2020
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Theories of state modernization rarely consider the relationship between sovereignty and government capacity. This paper focuses on the khedivate of Egypt, a semi-independent province in the Ottoman Empire. My claim is that endowed agricultural land was a ...
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Journal Article · May 9, 2017
This book presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, this book poin ...
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Book · 2017
Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestya ...
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Internet Publication · 2017
What does the Ottoman framework mean for urban historians of the Arab world and in particular of Egypt? ...
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Chapter · November 2016
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. ...
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Internet Publication · 2016
The term “digital imperialism” has been commonly used to describe cases where digital products transform social customs, but I use the term “digital source imperialism” here to refer to those who seek to control or monopolize access to digital products tha ...
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Journal ArticleAnnales islamologiques · 2016
Cette contribution explore, à partir d’un bâtiment construit par l’architecte Antonio Lasciac en 1897-1898 et des domaines fonciers auxquels il est directement connecté, une forme particulière d’urbanisation spéculative menée dans ce qui allait dev ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Semitic Studies · July 1, 2015
This paper contains the English translation of Ignác Goldziher's Hungarian essay Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with Regard to the Conditions of the Printing Press in the Orient (1874). The introduction pr ...
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Journal ArticleWelt des Islams · January 1, 2014
This article provides materials for an institutional history of academic Hungarian Orientalism through the life of Gyula Germanus (1884-1979). Using hitherto unexploited archives, this text explores his education, integration into academia, and career up t ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Middle East Studies · January 1, 2014
This article revisits the official culture of the early khedivate through a microhistory of the first modern Egyptian theater in Arabic. Based on archival research, it aims at a recalibration of recent scholarship by showing khedivial culture as a complex ...
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