Modern Arab Kingship : Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East / Adam Mestyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mestyán, Ádám, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monarchy--Arab countries--History--20th century.

Monarchy.

Arab countries--Politics and government--20th century.

Arab countries.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process of "recycling empire." Mestyan shows that in the post-World War I Middle East, Allied Powers officials and ex-Ottoman patricians collaborated to remake imperial institutions, recycling earlier Ottoman uses of genealogy and religion in the creation of new polities, with the exception of colonized Palestine. The polities, he contends, should be understood not in terms of colonies and nation states but as subordinated sovereign local states-localized regimes of religious, ethnic, and dynastic sources of imperial authority. Meanwhile, governance without sovereignty became the new form of Western domination.Drawing on hitherto unused Ottoman, French, Syrian, and Saudi archival sources, Mestyan explores ideas and practices of creating composite polities in the interwar Middle East and, doing so, sheds light on local agency in the making of the forgotten Kingdom of the Hijaz, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, the first Muslim republic. Mestyan considers the adjustment of imperial Islam to a world without a Muslim empire, discussing the post-Ottoman Egyptian monarchy and the intertwined making of Saudi Arabia and the State of Syria in the 1920s and 1930s.Mestyan's innovative analysis shows how an empire-based theory of the modern political order can help refine our understanding of political dynamics throughout the twentieth century and down to the turbulent present day.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Principal Players

Glossary

Chronology of Events

A Note on Transliteration

chapter 1 Recycling Empire

PART I A THEORY OF SOVEREIGN LOCAL STATES

Chapter 2 The Imperial Origin of Successor Political Orders

Chapter 3 Governing without Sovereignty

PART II COMPOSITE ROUTES OUT OF EMPIRE

Chapter 4 Ottoman Genealogical Politics

Chapter 5 Utopian Federalism: Post-Ottoman Empires

PART III FROM IMPERIAL TO LOCAL MUSLIM AUTHORITY

Chapter 6 Occupying Authority: The King of OETA East

Chapter 7 Authority and the Shari'a Apparatus in Post-Ottoman Egypt

PART IV PATHS OF EXTRICATION

Chapter 8 The Syrian Making of the Arab Saudi Kingdom

Chapter 9 The Throne of Damascus, 1926-1939

Afterword: Subordinated Sovereignty in the Twentieth Century

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

A note on the type

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-24935-0

OCLC:

1377815656