The Middle East from Empire to Sealed Identities
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474448956 (ISBN)
This compelling analysis of the modern Middle East – based on research in 19 archives and numerous languages – shows the transition from an internal history characterised by local realities that were plural and multidimensional, and where identities were flexible and hybrid, to a simplified history largely imagined and imposed by external actors. The author demonstrates how the once-heterogeneous identities of Middle Eastern peoples were sealed into a standardised and uniform version that persists to this day. He also sheds light on the efforts that peoples in the region – in the context of a new process of homogenisation of diversities – are exerting in order to get back into history, regaining possession of their multifaceted pasts.
Lorenzo Kamel is a Full Professor of History at the University of Turin and at Luiss University in Rome. He has taught in many universities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, including the University of Bologna, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he served as a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher, and Harvard University, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for 2 years. He published ten books on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean affairs, including Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times (2015), winner of the 2016 Palestine Academic Book Award.
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Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Past’s Present
Chapter 1. Beyond ‘Tribes’ and ‘Sects’: On Concepts and Terms
Chapter 2. The First Moment; 1830s: The Germs of Competing Ethno-Religious Visions
Chapter 3. The Second Moment; The Tanẓīmāt’s Long Waves: Politicising Ethno-Religious Differences
Chapter 4. The Third Moment; From Ethnocentric Drives to a New Millet System
Chapter 5. Balfour’s ‘Pattern’
Chapter 6. The Racialisation of Middle Eastern People
Chapter 7. Beyond ‘Artificiality’: Borders, States, Nations
Conclusion: The Present’s Past
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.07.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 19 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 428 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474448956 / 9781474448956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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