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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783953203321

Autore

Moalla Asma <1950-, >

Titolo

The regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814 : army and government of a North-African Ottoman eyalet at the end of the eighteenth century / / Asma Moalla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-42983-5

1-134-42984-3

1-280-17876-0

9786610178766

0-203-98722-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Islamic Studies Series

Classificazione

15.80

Disciplina

961.103

Soggetti

History, Modern - Africa, North - 18th century

Tunisia History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; FOR MY PARENTS; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; SOURCES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY ON OTTOMAN TUNISIA; Part 1 PROLOGUE The Tunisian eyålet from the Ottoman conquest until the end of the eighteenth century (1574-1777); Part 2 THE POLICIES AND GOVERNMENT OF ÓAMMÁDA PASHA (1777-1814); CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. This work thus initiates a systematic revision of a major thesis that has prevailed in the body of contemporary research on the Tunisian Regency. Asma Moalla shows that the Regency's administrative and political evolution from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth was not a proces