Constitutionalism Unbound : Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century / edited by Denis Hermann, Erdal Kaynar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermann, Denis, editor.

Kaynar, Erdal, editor.

Series:

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 135.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Philosophy.

Turkey--History--1878-1909.

Turkey.

Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is democracy a foreign concept to the political culture of the Near East? This perennially debated question often overlooks a crucial historical factor: the rise of Ottoman and Qajar constitutionalism during the long nineteenth century. This volume is the first study to emphasize constitutionalism as a transformative force across Ottoman and Iranian lands. It investigates how new political ideas and social dynamics across the century shaped constitutionalism into a multifaceted and potent movement, culminating in the revolutions of 1906 and 1908. It traces how constitutionalism durably altered conceptions of state and society, leaving a significant legacy in both Iranian and (post-)Ottoman contexts. Contributors are Houri Berberian, Yaşar Tolga Cora, Anne-Laure Dupont, Fujinami Nobuyoshi, Zaur Gasimov, Peter Hill, Denis Hermann, Erdal Kaynar, Varak Ketsemanian, Mira Xenia Schwerda, Alisa Schablovskaia, Nader Sohrabi and Barış Zeren.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran: Histories and Perspectives

Denis Hermann and Erdal Kaynar

Part 1: Conceptualizing Constitutionalism: (Re-)Imagining Politics

1 Who Can Participate in the Shūrā? Non-Muslims in the First Parliaments of Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1861–1911

Anne-Laure Dupont

2 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and Arabic Constitutionalism

Peter Hill

3 The Nation Against the Sultan: Constitutionalist Thought in the Writings of the Young Turk Leader Ahmed Rıza

Erdal Kaynar

4 Democracy by Petition: the Popular Committees and What Made the Iranian Constitutionalism Unique

Nader Sohrabi

Part 2: Constructing Constitutionalism: Ideas, Actors, and Networks

5 Armenian Constitutionalism in the Late Ottoman Empire: the View from a Province

Varak Ketsemanian

6 The Iranian Constitution in the Mirror of the Russian Azerbaijani Press

Zaur Gasimov

7 Progressive Conservatives? The Young Turk Lectures on Constitutional Law

Nobuyoshi Fujinami

8 Constitutionalism and the Political Ethos of the Last Qajars

Alisa Shablovskaia

9 Constitutional Authority and Shiʿi Political Culture: the Mobilisation of Messianic Logic by the Ulama during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution

Denis Hermann

Part 3: Enacting Constitutionalism: the Challenge of Constitutional Rule

10 From Trusting to Cunning: Shifting Relations between Armenian Political Figures and Ḥasan Taqīzādeh during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)

Houri Berberian

11 Crafting the Image of Constitutionalism: the Phenomenon of Bast in Turn-of-the-Century Iran and the Visualization of Protest

Mira Xenia Schwerda

12 Coal Heavers’ Strike of 1910 in the Ottoman Capital: Labor Activism and Socialist Politics in the Second Constitutional Era

Yaşar Tolga Cora

13 A Shift in Law-Making: Ottoman Constitutionalism Facing the Local in Rumelia

Barış Zeren

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hermann, Denis Constitutionalism Unbound

ISBN:

9789004734661

OCLC:

1529902958

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004734661 DOI