Vol. 2 No. 003 (2016): Issue 003
Issue 3 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2016) includes the following studies and articles: “Lecture” (Hichem Djait); “Observations on the Climate of the Ancient Maghreb” (Samir Ait Oumghar); “The Constitution of Medina: The History of the Reception of a Text” (Amr Osman); “Units of Measurement in Islamic Societies: The Finger, the Fist, and Large and Small Spans” (Mohammed Amrani Zerrifi); “Urban Space Management in Cordoba” (Youssef Ngadi); “Wheat and Mohammad Ali Pasha's Independence Project during the Continental Blockade Crisis (1807-1815)” (Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim); “Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Historiography” (Dipesh Chakrabarty); “The Uses of Biography” (Giovanni Levi); “Ottoman Census of Damascus in the Year 1086 Hijri (1675-1676)” (Mustafa Öztürk, Suheil Saban); “Periodization in Arab Islamic History” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Masarat: Arab Scholars and their Contributions to the Writing of History A Conversation with Egyptian Historian Mahmoud Isma” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “The Justice Discourse in Sultanic Literature by Ibrahim Al-Qadri Boutshish (Book Review)” (Chamseddin Alkilani); “Prison and Prisoners: Examples from the Middle Ages in the Maghreb by Mustafa Nashat (Book Review)” (Yehya Boulehya); “When a Nation Awakens by Sadek Hadjeres (Book Review)” (Noureddine Teniou); “The Birth Pangs of Ottoman Rule in Arab Lands at the End of the Reign of Sulieman the Magnificent” (Abderrahim Benhadda).