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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800; Chapter 1: Land and Peoples; Chapter 2: The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands; Chapter 3: The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration; Chapter 4: Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 5: Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 6: Religious and Intellectual Life; Chapter 7: Urban Life and Trade; Chapter 8: Rural Life; Chapter 9: Non-Normative Populations I: Non-Muslims; the Poor and Disabled; Chapter 10: Non-Normative Populations II: Women, Non-Elite Slaves, Eunuchs; Chapter 11: Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century (and Afterward); Conclusion: Transformations under Ottoman Rule
About the Author :
Jane Hathaway is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. Her previous publications include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlis (1997); A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (2003); Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (2006); and The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker (2018).
Review :
'I am very pleased to see a new edition of The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800, an essential text for courses on the history of the Ottoman Empire and the early modern Middle East. In addition to introducing readers to the political structure and developments in the region, this clearly written and engaging text offers rich descriptions of the social and cultural lives of a wide range of people in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Hathaway's revisions include the careful incorporation of recent scholarship and restructuring of several chapters; her expansion of the discussion about non-normative populations, which is now two chapters, is especially welcome.'
Corinne Blake, Rowan University, USA.
