Untold Histories of the Middle East Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries

• Main Authors: Singer, Amy, Neumann, Christoph K., Somel, Selçuk Akṣin
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2011; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
• Subjects: 19th century; 20th century; Historiography; History; History: Theory, Method & Historiography; Middle East; Middle East - History - 19th century; Middle East > Historiography; Middle East > History > 20th century; Middle East History; Modern History 1750-1945; Social history; Turkey; Turkey > Historiography; Turkey > History > 19th century; Turkey > History > 20th century; non-Muslim Wife; Ottoman State; Central Government; Ottoman Armenians; Pregnant Bride; Balkan Muslims; King George III; Sultan Selim III; Turkish Historiography; Ottoman Greek; Young Men; Interfaith Marriage; Islamic Marriage; Sublime State; Ankara Government; Ottoman Patriotism; Turkish Nationalist Historiography; Bani Sakhr; Turkish War; Muslim Worlds; Armenian Women; Muslim Husband; Balkan States; Mustafa Kemal; Interfaith Unions

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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 challenges -- 6 On the margins of national historiography: The Greek Ittihatçı 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 writings -- 10 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