Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration

by Weismann Zachs

Overview

The late Ottoman period was one of enormous change. This book focuses on the evolution of Ottoman reform as it was perceived, and negotiated, from the perspectives of the capital Istanbul and of the Arab provinces of Syria, including Palestine. It also examines the close interrelationship between the symbolic and actual measures introduced by the state, particularly since the Tanzimat era (1839-76), and the role of Islam as its foundational ethos and as the religion of the majority of the population. The twelve case studies included in this volume reveal the extent of the changes that the Ottoman Empire underwent throughout the period, ranging from the Ottoman dynasty and court at the top, to the marginalized Druzes and Bedouin populations on the periphery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850437574
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/24/2005
Series:	Library of Ottoman Studies , #8
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Itzchak Weismann is lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, the University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests encompass modern Sufi, fundamentalist and radical Islamic movements. He is the author of 'Taste of Modernity - Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus'. Fruma Zachs is lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests focus on eighteenth and nineteenth century Ottoman Syria, especially Christian Arab intellectuals and the construction of their self-identity. She is the author of 'The Rise of the Syrian Identity: Intellectuals and Merchants in Nineteenth Century Beirut'.

Table of Contents

A Note on Transliteration
• Introduction--Itzchak Weismann and Fruma Zachs
• Publications by Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh
• Part I: The Center of Empire
• The Question of Caliphate under the Last Ottoman Sultans--Tufan Buzpinar:
• Who is the next Sultan? Attempts toward Changing the Rule of Succession during the Nineteenth Century--Hakan Karateke
• The Ottoman Reforms and Shaykh Shamil-- Moshe Gammer
• Part II: Islamic Perspectives
• Sufism and Law on the Eve of Reform: The Views of Ibn 'Abidin -- Itzchak Weismann
• Traditional Anti-Wahhabi Hanbalism in Nineteenth Century Arabia-- David Commins
• The Caliph and the Shaykhs: 'Abdulhamid II's Policy towards the Qadiriyya of Mosul-- Gokhan Cetinsaya
• Part III: The Syrian Provinces
• Arab Christian Intellectuals and the Tanzimat: The Political Thought of Salim al-Bustani-- Fruma Zachs
• The Syrian Educated Elite and the Literary Nahda-- Ami Ayalon
• The Ottoman Reforms and Jabal al-Duruz, 1860-1914-- Kais Firro
• Part IV: Ottoman Palestine and World War I
• The 'Aristocracy' of the Upper Galilee: Safad Notables and the Tanzimat reforms-- Mustafa Abbasi:
• The Re-making of Beersheba: Winds of Modernization in the Late Ottoman Sultanate-- Nimrod Luz
• Perceptions of World War I in the Contemporary Arab Press-- Thomas Philipp
• Contributors
• Index