The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918 [electronic resource] : a social and cultural history / Bruce Masters.
2013
DR435.A66 M37 2013
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Title
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918 [electronic resource] : a social and cultural history / Bruce Masters.
Author
Masters, Bruce Alan, 1950-
ISBN
9781107033634
9781107619036
9781107058255 (electronic book)
9781107619036
9781107058255 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 261 p.
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DR435.A66 M37 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.892/705609034
Summary
"The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. The establishment and survival of Ottoman rule in the Arab lands, 1516-1798; 2. Institutions of Ottoman rule; 3. Economy and society in the early modern era; 4. A world of scholars and saints: intellectual life in the Ottoman Arab lands; 5. The empire at war: Napoleon, the Wahhabis, and Mehmed Ali; 6. The Tanzimat and the time of re-Ottomanization; 7. The end of the relationship.