Negotiating Empire in the Middle East - Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840-1914

Examines how negotiations between the Ottomans and Arab nomads played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Conflict: The Imperial Attempts to Terminate the Nomadic Domination in the Arab Countryside and the Tribal Response; 2. Reinforcement: Land Settlements and Military Fortification in the Desert and Its Frontiers, 1840-1870; 3. Expansion, Reaction, and Reconciliation I: Establishment of the Deir al-Zor Mutasarr¿fate and the Reconciliation with the Fid'an and Deir al-Zor's Shammar; 4. Expansion, Reaction and Reconciliation II-The Nomads and Extension of the Ottoman Administration into the South of Syria; 5. Partnership, Provincialization and Conflict: The Shammar in the Provinces of Mosul, Baghdad and Deir al-Zor, 1870-1914; 6. Taxation: The Collection of the Shammar and Anizah Duties; 7. Justice: The Imperial Legal System and the Bedouin Disputes; Conclusion.

About the author

M. Talha Çiçek is Associate Professor of History at Istanbul Medeniyet University. Formerly the British Academy's Newton Fellow at SOAS University of London, and Humboldt Experienced Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, he is the author of War and State Formation in Syria: Cemal Pasha's Governorate during World War I (2014).

Summary

Examining the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nomads in the Modern era, this book explores how the Ottomans integrated the Bedouin nomads into the imperial system of governance, and in turn, demonstrating how Bedouin socio-political agency played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: M. Talha Cicek, M Talha Çiçek, M. Talha Çiçek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781316518083
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51808-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, c 1910 to c 1919, Middle Eastern history, Colonialism and imperialism, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909