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Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam MestyanPublish date:8/8/2023Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691190976ISBN-10:691190976UPC:9780691190976Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Political Ideologies, ModernBook Topic:Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Nationalism & Patriotism, 20th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCNVX53NJ5

How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East

In 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. These 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 previously unused Ottoman, French, Syrian, and Saudi archival sources, Mestyan explores ideas and practices of creating composite polities in the interwar Middle East and, in 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691190976ISBN-10:691190976UPC:9780691190976Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Middle East, Political Ideologies, ModernBook Topic:Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Nationalism & Patriotism, 20th CenturySize:9.50 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCNVX53NJ5
Adam Mestyan is associate professor in the History Department at Duke University. He is the author of Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton) and Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo.
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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