Author/Authors
khoury, dina rizk george washington university, USA
Title Of Article
Where Are the Ottomans in the Historiography of the Twentieth Century Fertile Crescent?
شماره ركورد
44603
Abstract
In his 1982 article, “The Social Uses of the Past: Recent Arab Historiography of Ottoman Rule,” Rifa‘at Abou-El-Haj upbraided western scholars for dismissing Arab historiography of Ottoman rule as non-existent or highly suspect. He called for an examination of such scholarship in the context of the historical moments it was produced and drew our attention to the social uses of Ottoman history as a field of study in and of itself. Historians, he insisted, are very much a product of the class alliances, power blocs, and their relationships to their past. Rifa‘at was making a plea to take Arab historiography of the Ottomans seriously as he was criticizing its nationalist underpinnings.
From Page
207
JournalTitle
The Journal Of Ottoman Studies
To Page
224
JournalTitle
The Journal Of Ottoman Studies
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