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There has been a growing interest in recent years in reviewing the continued impact of the Ottoman empire even long after its demise at the end of the First World War. The wars in former Yugoslavia, following hot on the civil war in Lebanon, were reminders that the settlements of 1918-22 were not final. While many of the successor states to the Ottoman empire, in east and west, had been built on forms of nationalist ideology and rhetoric opposed to the empire, a newer trend among historians has been to look at these histories as Ottoman provincial history. The present volume is an attempt to bring some of those histories from across the former Ottoman space together. They cover from parts of former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece to Lebanon, including Turkey itself, providing rich material for comparing regions which normally are not compared.
Price: $213.00
Pages: 294
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
09 December 2011
ISBN: 9789004211339
Format: Hardcover
"...Above all else, this erudite book is articulate in substance and a real joy to read. One certainly hopes it will appeal to the wide readership it deserves. The structure and choice of contributors serve the editor’s purpose to undermine the traditional Cowboys-and-Indians historiography that has dominated studies of the Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmâniyye since its ascent many centuries ago, and the true complexity and multi-layered nature of Ottoman society is laid bare, with succinct clarity." - Abdullah Drury, University of Waikato, New Zealand, in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 24.4 (2013)
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Ph.D. (1978) in Arab history, American University of Beirut, is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He has worked extensively on Muslims in Europe and is the chief editor of Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Brill, 2009 and later).