Untold histories of the Middle East : recovering voices from the 19th and 20th centuries / / edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann and Selcuk Aksin Somel

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.04
• Soggetto topico: Women - Middle East - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East History 20th century; Middle East History 19th century; Turkey History 20th century; Turkey History 19th century; Middle East Historiography; Turkey Historiography
• Altri autori: SingerAmy NeumannChristoph K. <1962-> SomelSelcuk Aksin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Re-sounding silent voices; Part I: Missing women; 1 Unravelling layers of gendered silencing: Converted Armenian survivors of the 1915 catastrophe; 2 Interfaith unions and non-Muslim wives in early twentieth-century Alexandrian Islamic courts; 3 The silence of the pregnant bride: Non-marital sex in Middle Eastern societies; Part II: Marginal lives; 4 Silent voices within the elites: The social biography of a modern shaykh ; 5 A nationalist discourse of heroism and treason: The construction of an 'official' image of Çerkes Ethem (1886-1948) in Turkish historiography, and recent challenges6 On the margins of national historiography: The Greek Ittihatçi Emmanouil Emmanouilidis - opportunist or Ottoman patriot?; 7 The Ottoman Empire's absent nineteenth century: Autonomous subjects; 8 Looking behind Hajji Baba of Ispahan: The case of Mirza Abul Hasan Khan Ilchi Shirazi; Part III: Memories of conflicts ; 9 Between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the 'Third Balkan War' of the 1990s: The memory of the Balkans in Arabic writings10 The courts of the Palestinian Arab revolt, 1936-39; 11 Multiplicity or polarity: A discursive analysis of post-1908 violence in an Ottoman region; Glossary; Select bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Much traditional historiography consciously and unconsciously glosses over certain discourses, narratives, and practices. This book examines silences or omissions in Middle Eastern history at the turn of the twenty-first century, to give a fuller account of the society, culture and politics.With a particular focus on the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Iran and Palestine, the contributors consider how and why such silences occur, as well as the timing and motivation for breaking them. Introducing unexpected, sometimes counter-intuitive, issues in history, chapters examine:<
• Titolo autorizzato: Untold histories of the Middle East
• ISBN: 1-136-92665-8; 1-136-92666-6; 1-282-73262-5; 9786612732621; 0-203-84536-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823691203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; ; 12.