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Acknowledgements | |
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Note on Transliteration and Dates | |
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List of Figures | |
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List of Maps | |
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Introduction: Rewriting Arab History, 1516-1800 | |
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Why The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule? | |
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Sources for the study of the Ottoman Arab lands | |
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'Decline' and decentralization | |
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State and society | |
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Local notables and localization | |
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Households | |
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Households and localization | |
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Artisans | |
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Rural populations | |
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Marginal populations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Land and Peoples | |
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Regions and nomenclature | |
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Geographical features | |
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Peoples | |
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Religious minorities | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Ottoman Conquest of the Arab Lands | |
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The rise of the Ottomans | |
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The Mamluk sultanate (1250-1517) | |
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The Safavids | |
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The Portuguese | |
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Conquest of the Mamluks | |
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Suleyman I's conquest of Iraq | |
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Yemen | |
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North Africa | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Organization of the Ottoman Provincial Administration | |
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Relations with the conquered population | |
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Administrative subdivisions | |
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Land tenure | |
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The nature of Ottoman rule in Egypt | |
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Early challenges to Ottoman rule | |
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Crisis and Change in the Seventeenth Century | |
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The 'decline' paradigm | |
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The crisis of the seventeenth century | |
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Kuls and Osman II | |
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Janissary hegemony in the Arab provinces | |
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Jelali governors and their equivalents | |
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The loss of Yemen | |
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The Koprulu reforms | |
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Provincial Notables in the Eighteenth Century | |
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Ayan | |
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The ayan household | |
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Georgian mamluks in ayan households | |
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Women in the household | |
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African eunuchs and ayan households | |
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Ayan architecture | |
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Conclusion | |
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Religious and Intellectual Life | |
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The ulema | |
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Sufism | |
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The ulema in social protest | |
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The ulema as intellectuals | |
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Conclusion | |
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Urban Life and Trade | |
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Arab provincial cities | |
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Government regulation of markets | |
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Long-distance trade | |
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The Red Sea coffee trade and its cultural effects | |
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Conclusion | |
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Rural Life | |
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Land tenure | |
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Village life | |
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Tribes | |
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Conclusion | |
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Marginal Groups and Minority Populations | |
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Religious minorities | |
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Non-elite slavery | |
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Women | |
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The poor and disabled | |
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Conclusion | |
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Ideological and Political Changes in the Late Eighteenth Century | |
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'Neo-Sufism' | |
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Wahhabism | |
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The crisis of Selim III's reign (1789-1807) | |
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Conclusion: Transformations Under Ottoman Rule | |
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The effects of Ottoman rule | |
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The Ottoman Arab provinces after 1800 | |
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The Ottomans and the world | |
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The question of nationalist historiographies | |
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Present-day relevance | |
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Bibliographical Essay | |
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Ottoman Sultans to 1839 | |
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Political Chronology | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |