Past and present in local histories of the Ottoman period from Syria and Lebanon

Middle Eastern Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-65

  Reilly, James A ^a  

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EID: 0040291887     PISSN: 00263206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00263209908701255     Document Type: Review

References (80)

1. Ulrike Freitag, '"In Search of 'Historical Correctness": The Ba'th Party in Syria', paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, November 1994; see also Itamar Rabinovich, 'Historiography and Politics in Syria', Asian Affairs, Vol.9 (1978), pp.57-66.
2. Ulrike Freitag, '"In Search of 'Historical Correctness": The Ba'th Party in Syria', paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, November 1994; see also Itamar Rabinovich, 'Historiography and Politics in Syria', Asian Affairs, Vol.9 (1978), pp.57-66.
3. These issues are broached in (and the quote is taken from) Rifaat Ali Abou-El-Haj, 'The Social Uses of the Past: Recent Arab Historiography of Ottoman Rule', International Journal of Middle East Studies. Vol. 14 (1982), pp.188-9.
4. Mahmud 'Umar al-Siba'i and Na'im Salim al-Zahrawi, Hims: Dirasa Watha 'iqiyya fi al-Hiqba min 1256-1337/1840 1918 (Homs, 1992), p.i. Volumes two and three, authored by al-Zahrawi alone, were published in 1995 but became known to the author only after the present article was written.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., pp.i-ii.
7. Ibid., pp.205, 209, 226-227.
8. Ibid., pp.99-106, 113, 115, 141.
9. Ibid., pp.77, 79-80.
10. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, 1993), p.112.
11. Yusuf Jamil Nu'aysa, Mujtama' Madinat Dimashq 1772-1840. 2 vols. (Damascus, 1986).
12. E.g., ibid. 1, pp.203, 265.
13. Ibid., 1, pp.264-5.
14. Ibid., 2, p.382.
15. Ibid., 2:, pp.524-36, 573-4.
16. Ibid., 1, pp.696-715.
17. Ibid., 1, pp.265-7; 2, pp.477, 531.
18. Ibid., 1, pp.265-7; 2, pp.477, 531.
19. Ibid., 1, pp.204-5; 2, pp.645, 742-1.
20. Ibid., 1, pp.204-5; 2, pp.645, 742-1.
21. Ibid., 2, pp.538-66.
22. Ibid., 2, pp.384, 505.
23. Reflected, inter alia, in his book's dedication and by the tone of Nu'aysa's interventions in public lectures sponsored by the History Department at the University of Damascus in 1993-94, lectures which I attended.
24. Yasir Sari, Safahat min Tarikh al-Ladhiqiyya (Damascus, 1992).
25. Jibra'il Sa'ada, 'Introduction', in ibid., pp.7-9.
26. Sari, Safahat, 64.
27. Ibid., pp.69, 71-2.
28. Ibid., pp.67-9.
29. Ibid., pp.83-4.
30. Ibid., pp.86-9.
31. Ibid., pp.90-1.
32. Ibid., pp.97-104.
33. 'Abd al-Wadud Muhammad Yusuf al-Barghuth, 'Liwa' Hamah fi al-qarn al-sadis 'ashar: Nizam al-hukm wa-bunyat al-mujtama' min sijillat al-mahkama al-shar'iyya' (M.A. thesis, 'Ayn Shams University, 1970).
34. Ibid., pp.237-9.
35. Ibid., pp.232-5.
36. Ibid., p.236.
37. Ghassan Munir Sinnu, Madinat Sayda 1818-1860: Dirasa fi al-'umran al-hadari min khilal watha'iq mahkamatiha al-shar'iyya (Beirut, 1988).
38. Ibid., p.8.
39. Ibid., pp.9-18.
40. Ibid., p.7.
41. Ibid., p.21.
42. Ibid., pp.277-84.
43. Ibid., pp.151-74.
44. Ibid., pp.445-6.
45. Ibid., pp.426-38.
46. 'Isam Muhammad Shabaru, Tarikh Bayrut mundhu aqdam al-'usur halta al-qarn al-'ishrin (Beirut, 1987).
47. Ibid., pp.5-7.
48. Alex Havemann, 'Lebanon from the View of Contemporary Historiography: Observations on the Conflict between Communal Identity and Scholarship', paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, November 1994.
49. Ibid., p.262.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid., pp.64-6.
52. Ibid., p.262.
53. Ibid., pp.153, 156.
54. Ibid., p.162.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid., pp.200-2.
57. Ibid., p.263.
58. Ibid.
59. Kamal S. Salibi, A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered (Berkeley, 1988), ch. 11.
60. Khalid Ziyada, Al-Sura al-taqlidiyya li-al-mujtama' al-madani: Qira 'a manhajiyya fi sijillat mahkamat Tarabulus al-shar 'iyya fi al-qarn al-sabi ' 'ashar wa-bidayat al-qarn al-thamin 'ashar (Tripoli, 1983).
61. Ibid., pp.11-12.
62. Ibid., p.12.
63. Ibid., p.27.
64. Ibid., p.12.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid., p.28.
67. Ibid., p.33.
68. Ibid., pp.17-19.
69. Ibid., pp.51-2.
70. Ibid., pp.47-8.
71. Ibid., p.40.
72. Ibid., pp.73-81.
73. Ibid., pp.103-17.
74. Ibid., pp. 125-36.
75. Ibid., p.133.
76. Ibid., pp.137-41.
77. Ibid., pp.121-37.
78. Ibid., pp.142-57.
79. Ibid., pp.164-5.
80. Ibid., p.165.