Street politics in Damascus: Kinship and other social categories as bases of political action, 1830–1841

Büssow, Johann

doi:10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.02.004

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Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia

Perrier

2021

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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The colonial history of Tunisia has long been dictated by colonial sources that made the qaid (an official in charge of fiscal attributions), from the viewpoint of the capital city, a local notable and often a prevaricator. This study proposes to reconsider the relationship between government and regional power in the colonial context by drawing on the recent work of Ottoman studies about provincial elites. The article studies the fiscal reforms of the interwar period in a cereal-growing region of Tunisia, relying on sources in Arabic produced by the qaids, namely the administrative correspondence between local authorities, the prime minister, and colonial controllers. This article describes the role of qaids in the negotiation between national law and local specificities and finally highlights the role of decentralization and a local way of thinking about the state in the 1930s. It contributes to colonial history and the history of taxation by highlighting the territorial fractures in North Africa and the agency of local actors under the protectorate.

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Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia

Perrier

2021

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Imperial Crisis and Muslim-Christian Relations in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, c. 1770-1830

Grehan

2015

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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In the middle of the nineteenth century, a wave of anti-Christian violence broke out in Ottoman Syria. Prevailing interpretations tie this social turmoil to the region’s sudden integration into the modern world economy, further aggravated by state reforms that upset long-standing political hierarchies. This paper argues that the origins of these disturbances lay not in the penetration of the modern world economy but in the extended political crisis that shook the Ottoman Empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Sectarian tensions therefore need to be seen, at their root, as political reactions to the slow disintegration of the early-modern political order. In its timing and causes, this Ottoman experience helps to highlight a broader “sectarian turn” that overtook many other parts of Eurasia in the same period.

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Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions

Ben-Bassat

Büssow

2018

J. Econ. Soc. Hist. Orient

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During the late Ottoman period the city of Gaza was caught up in internal political strife. The city’s elite families tended to operate within rival factions while trying to draw Istanbul into its internal conflicts. In this context, they formed complex relationships with the elite of Jerusalem that dominated Palestine’s politics, as well as with peasants and Bedouins in Gaza’s hinterland. The article presents the first systematic account of factional strife in Gaza during the period. In addition, it examines what caused the internal divisions in Gaza to be so severe and considers whether factionalism also played out in the urban space. It is argued that (1) the severity of this factionalism derived from the rising stakes resulting from imperial politics and economic benefits, and (2) factionalism and urban development interacted with each other, leading to a particular type of ‘spatialized factionalism’. We suggest that this perspective can lead to a better understanding of both urban politics and urban development in other towns and cities in the Ottoman Empire’s Arab provinces.

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Street politics in Damascus: Kinship and other social categories as bases of political action, 1830–1841

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia

Local Legitimacy and Tax Policy: Qaids as Part of a Composite State in Colonial Tunisia

Imperial Crisis and Muslim-Christian Relations in Ottoman Syria and Palestine, c. 1770-1830

Urban Factionalism in Late Ottoman Gaza, c. 1875-1914: Local Politics and Spatial Divisions

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