Negotiating empire in the Middle East : Ottomans and Arab nomads in the modern era, 1840-1914 / M. Talha Çiçek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çiçek, M. Talha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central-local government relations--Turkey--History--19th century.

Central-local government relations.

Imperialism.

Bedouins--Social conditions--19th century.

Bedouins.

Bedouins--Politics and government--19th century.

Bedouins--Government policy--Turkey--History--19th century.

Turkey--Politics and government--19th century.

Turkey.

Middle East--Colonization.

Middle East.

Turkey--Colonies--Administration.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle East. Reflecting on multiple aspects of Ottoman authority and governance across Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Transjordan and along their frontiers, Çiçek reveals how the relationship between the imperial centre and the nomads was not merely a brutal imposition of a strict order, but instead one of constant, complicated, and fluid negotiation. In so doing, he highlights how the responses of the nomads made a considerable impact on the ultimate outcome, transforming the imperial policies accordingly.

Contents:

Conflict : the imperial attempts to terminate the nomadic domination in the Arab countryside and the tribal response

Reinforcement : land settlements and military fortification in the desert and its frontiers, 1840-1870

Expansion, reaction, and reconciliation I : establishment of the Deir al-Zor Mutasarrıfate and the reconciliation with the Fid'an and Deir al-Zor's Shammar

Expansion, reaction and reconciliation II : the nomads and extension of the Ottoman administration into the south of Syria

Partnership, provincialization and conflict : the Shammar in the provinces of Mosul, Baghdad and Deir al-Zor, 1870-1914

Taxation : the collection of the Shammar and Anizah duties

Justice : the imperial legal system and the Bedouin disputes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-00231-7

1-009-00371-2

1-108-99385-0