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Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East

“Modernities” in the Making

Ed. by Ze’evi, Dror / Toledano, Ehud R.

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October 2015
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Frontmatter

Pages I-VI

Contents

Pages VII-IX

Acknowledgements

Pages X-X

Introduction: Unpacking Middle East Modernities

Social Transformation and the State in the Middle East

Ze’evi, Dror / Toledano, Ehud R.

Pages 2-14

Part I: Unpacking Society

1 Banishment, Confiscation, and the Instability of the Ottoman Elite Household

Ze’evi, Dror / Buke, Ilkim

Pages 16-30

2 The Religious Endowments of Şeyhülislam Feyzullah Efendi: The Waqf Institution and the Survival of Ottoman Elite Households

Nizri, Michael

Pages 31-43

3 To be a Voyvoda in Diyarbakır: Socio-Political Change in an 18th-Century Ottoman Province

Levy-Daphny, Tsameret

Pages 44-58

Part II: Unpacking Law and Culture

4 Where Have All the People Gone? A Critique of Medieval Islamic Historiography

Hurvitz, Nimrod

Pages 60-73

5 According to His Exalted Ḳânûn: Contending Visions of the Muftiship in the Ottoman Province of Damascus (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)

Burak, Guy

Pages 74-86

6 The Slave, the Governor, and the Judge: An Ottoman Socio-Legal Drama from the Late Nineteenth Century

Rubin, Avi

Pages 87-103

7 The Policeman and State Policy: Police Accountability, Civilian Entitlements, and Ottoman Modernism, 1840–1860s

Paz, Omri

Pages 104-120

8 “At Approximately Eleven, Just Before Nightfall”: An Introduction to Ottoman Temporal Culture

Wishnitzer, Avner

Pages 121-134

9 How to Work on Social History in the Egyptian Archives: Some Thoughts

Kozma, Liat

Pages 135-148

Bibliography

Pages 149-162

List of Figures

Pages 163-163

List of Tables

Pages 163-163

Index

Pages 164-166

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