Arabs and Ottomans : : A Checkered Relationship / / Caesar A. Farah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Farah, Caesar A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (553 p.)

Arabs and Ottomans is an anthology of articles by Professor Caesar Farah on Ottoman Syria and Yemen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFORMED OTTOMANISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- AWAKENING INTEREST IN WESTERN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN OTTOMAN SYRIA -- SYRO-EGYPT1ANS AND THE LITERARY REVIVAL MOVEMENT -- THE ROLE OF THE SYRO-EGYPTIANS IN THE CULTURAL RENAISSANCE -- CENSORSHIP AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN OTTOMAN SYRIA AND EGYPT -- CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD: MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS -- RELIGION, ETHNICITY AND CONFLICT IN THE SYRIAN REGION -- THE IMPACT OF THE WEST ON THE CONFLICT OF IDEOLOGIES IN THE ARAB WORLD -- THE DILEMMA OF ARAB NATIONALISM -- EMIR BASHIR II'S FISCAL POLICIES FOR MT. LEBANON IN 1837 : A SOCIO-ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION -- THE LEBANESE INSURGENCE OF 1840 AND THE POWERS -- THE QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE AND PROPOSED OTTOMAN REFORMS IN SYRIA, 1839-1841 -- NECİP PAŞA AND THE BRITISH IN SYRIA 1841-1842 -- AUSTRIAN DIPLOMACY AND THE MT. LEBANON CRISIS IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH -- PROTESTANTISM AND BRITISH DIPLOMACY IN SYRIA -- A TALE OF TWO MISSIONS -- PROTESTANTISM AND POLITICS: THE 19th CENTURY DIMENSION IN SYRIA -- A SPANISH PERSPECTIVE OF THE 'SYRIAN QUESTION' IN 1844 -- LEBANON AT THE CROSSROADS -- ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NATIONALISM -- ISLAM AND AMERICA'S NEW CRUSADE -- ARABS & TURKS: COMMON HERITAGE, COMMON DESTINY -- REASSESSING SULTAN ABDÜLHAMID II'S ISLAMIC POLICY -- GREAT BRITAIN, GERMANY AND THE OTTOMAN CALIPHATE -- ARAB SUPPORTERS OF SULTAN ABDÜLHAMID II: ‘IZZET AL-‘ĀBID -- KHWALDDYAH SALAH: SPY, PATRIOT AND PAN-ISLAMIST -- POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM -- ORGANIZING FOR THE SECOND CONQUEST OF YEMEN -- YEMENI FORTIFICATION AND THE SECOND OTTOMAN CONQUEST -- ANNOUNCING AN OTTOMAN VICTORY IN HUNGARY TO A YEMENI EMIR -- THE BRITISH CHALLENGE TO OTTOMAN AUTHORITY IN YEMEN -- REAFFIRMING OTTOMAN SOVEREIGNTY IN YEMEN 1825-1840 -- A GERMAN PLAN OF REFORM FOR OTTOMAN YEMEN -- SMUGGLING AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE RED SEA IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD -- BEGINNING OF IMPERIAL RIVALRIES IN THE PERSIAN GULF