Vol. 1 No. 002 (2015): Issue 002

غلاف العدد 2 من دورية أسطور

Issue 2 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2015) includes the following studies and articles: “History of the Present Moment: Background and Problematics” (Khaled Tahtah); “Memory and Testimony in Writing the History of the Algerian Revolution 1954-1962 The Liberation Struggle in History of the P” (Noureddine Teniou); “The Almohads Military Strategy in the Western Mediterranean” (Azeddine Guessous); “The Battle of Kosovo 1389: From Myth Making to Ideology” (Muhammed Al-Arnaout); “"Karimi", Egypt during the Ottoman Era (1517-1630/ 923-1040 H)” (حسام عبد المعطي); “The Military Strategy of the Mahdi in Sudan (1881 - 1885)” (Ahmed Abu Shouk); “Political Conflict in Morocco Prior to the French Protectorate” (Yehya Boulehya); “Diplomacy Aspects of the Rif Liberation Movement Leader Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭṭābī” (Kacem El hadeg); “Moroccan Northern Tribes' Awareness of Palestine's Tragedy” (Mustafa Alghadiri); “The Arabs and the first World War” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Masarat: Arab Scholars and their Contributions to the Writing of History A Conversation with Algerian Historian Nassereddine” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria by René Dussaud” (Ammar al-Samar); “Towards a Constitutional State: The Project of the Young Turks Intellectuals in Hurriyet Newspaper (1868 - 1870)” (Nizam Al-Abbasi); “The Revival of Japan in the Meiji Period from an Arab-Islamic Perspective: A Reading” (Aziz al-Arabawi); “Ex-Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library” (Mahmoud Muhareb).

Published: 2015-07-01

Studies

  • History of the Present Moment: Background and Problematics

    Author: Khaled Tahtah
    7-21

    Institutes with an interest in contemporary history have mushroomed across the world, and particularly in Europe. The powerful rise of the media has contributed to giving a new gloss to the...

  • Memory and Testimony in Writing the History of the Algerian Revolution 1954-1962 The Liberation Struggle in History of the P

    Author: Noureddine Teniou
    23-37

    Testimony, as a source for oral history, expresses a moment when historical reality identifies with its immediate disclosure: historical testimony thus provides a link with history itself as...

  • The Almohads Military Strategy in the Western Mediterranean

    Author: Azeddine Guessous
    39-59

    Almohads (al-muwaḥḥidun) annexed a vast area of the Islamic West to their state by extending their conquest to the East. They then entered into conflict with the Arab tribes in Ifriqiya (or...

  • The Battle of Kosovo 1389: From Myth Making to Ideology

    Author: Muhammed Al-Arnaout
    60-87

    The battle of Kosova (in Ottoman Turkish), or Kosovo (in Slavic), which took place on June 28, 1389 between the Ottoman Sultan Murad I and his allies and the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanovic,...

  • "Karimi", Egypt during the Ottoman Era (1517-1630/ 923-1040 H)

    Author: حسام عبد المعطي
    88-118

    There is a common misconception thatthe discovery of the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese led to the collapse of the Arab and Egyptian economies during the Ottoman era, and to the downfall of...

  • The Military Strategy of the Mahdi in Sudan (1881 - 1885)

    Author: Ahmed Abu Shouk
    120-138

    Abu Shouk offers an analytical review of the military strategy of Muhammed Ahmed al-Mahdi in the 1881 - 1885 against Ottoman-Egyptian rule in Sudan (1821 - 1885). The period begins with the...

  • Political Conflict in Morocco Prior to the French Protectorate

    Author: Yehya Boulehya
    139-158

    This paper discusses periods of political conflict that defined Morocco before the French protectorate in 1912 and focuses on three main areas of study. The first analyses the political rivalry...

  • Diplomacy Aspects of the Rif Liberation Movement Leader Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭṭābī

    Author: Kacem El hadeg
    159-173

    This paper looks at the diplomatic practices of Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭṭābī, leader of the Rif Liberation movement, and how they contributed to the success of his liberation movement....

Documents and Texts

  • Moroccan Northern Tribes' Awareness of Palestine's Tragedy

    Author: Mustafa Alghadiri
    205-224

    This article offers a number of official Makhzen documents dating back to the period between 1939 and 1948, highlighting the support provided by the Moroccan Rif region (which was under the...

Book Reviews

  • Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria by René Dussaud

    Author: Ammar al-Samar
    176-186

    Despite being nearly a century old, the book Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria, by the French archeologist and orientalist Rene Dussaud, continues to be a seminal work in its...

  • Towards a Constitutional State: The Project of the Young Turks Intellectuals in Hurriyet Newspaper (1868 - 1870)

    Author: Nizam Al-Abbasi
    187-190

    Towards a Constitutional State: The Project of the Young Turks Intellectuals in Hurriyet Newspaper was originally the doctoral dissertation of author Christiane Czygan. This book follows the...

  • The Revival of Japan in the Meiji Period from an Arab-Islamic Perspective: A Reading

    Author: Aziz al-Arabawi
    191-196

    Al- Arabawi offers a reading of Ahmed Al-Makkawi's book on the Meiji Restoration, an era which paved the way for the formation of the modern Japanese state. The Revival of Japan in the Meiji...

  • Ex-Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    197-202

    Ex-Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library exposes another aspect of Israel's crimes against the Palestinians during the 1948 war, when it...

Ostour Symposium

  • The Arabs and the first World War

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    227-254

    As part of the ACRPS conference "The First World War A Hundred Years On: Arab Perspectives", which was held in Beirut in February 2015, Ostour's academic board hosted a seminar on "The Arabs and...

Trajectories

  • Masarat: Arab Scholars and their Contributions to the Writing of History A Conversation with Algerian Historian Nassereddine

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    257-269

    Masarat (Trajectories) seeks to introduce Arab scholars who have made distinguished contributions through their historical writings, and to reveal the core of their relationships with the...