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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813956103321

Autore

Masters Bruce Alan <1950->

Titolo

The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516-1918 : a social and cultural history / / Bruce Masters, Wesleyan University [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-06564-X

1-107-05599-7

1-107-05825-2

1-107-05957-7

1-139-52197-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS026000

Disciplina

305.892/705609034

Soggetti

Arabs - Turkey - History

Ulama - Turkey - History

Elite (Social sciences) - Turkey - History

Social change - Turkey - History

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Turkey Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1. The establishment and survival of Ottoman rule in the Arab lands, 1516-1798; 2. Institutions of Ottoman rule; 3. Economy and society in the early modern era; 4. A world of scholars and saints: intellectual life in the Ottoman Arab lands; 5. The empire at war: Napoleon, the Wahhabis, and Mehmed Ali; 6. The Tanzimat and the time of re-Ottomanization; 7. The end of the relationship.

Sommario/riassunto

The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise.



Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire.