Vol. 2 No. 004 (2016): Issue 004

غلاف العدد 4 من دورية أسطور

Issue 4 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2016) includes the following studies and articles: “History, Memory and Historiography: A Study of Sykes-Picot, the Caliphate, and the Memory of Religious Denominations in Leba” (Wajih Kawtharani); “The Biography of the Prophet: Narrators and Authors” (Hayet Amamo); “The Navigation Industry in Ibn Khaldoun's Muqaddimah” (Mohamed Tahar Mansouri); “Scholarly Endowments (Waqf) for Rasulid Women in Zabid 626 - 858 AH/1229 - 1454 AD” (Abdelhakim Seifeddin); “The Religious Obligation of the Pilgrimage from Indonesia to Mecca” (Yahya Mohamed Ahmed Ghaleb); “German Historiography and the Nazi Complexd” (Khaled Tahtah); “Tangier under Spanish Occupation (1940 - 1945)” (Zeinab Hamouda); “The Poetics of History” (Hayden White); “Who is Andrad of Seville, Author of On the Nature, Kinds, and Deeds of the Horse?” (Rachid Affaki); “Marginalized in Syria at the Turn of the Century: Oral Testimonies” (Abdullah Hanna); “Fields of Historical Research in the Arab World (Ostour's Seminar)” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Mohamed Tahar Al Mansuri: the Life of a Historian (1955 - 2016)” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “A Conversation with Lebanese Historian Wajih Kawtharani” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “Arab History and the Crisis of Method seen through Mohammed Habida’s The Misery of History” (Mohamed Tahar Mansouri); “Review of Tunisia in the Middle Ages: Ifriqiya from Dependent Emirate to Independent Sultanate” (Yassin al-Yahyawi); “Review and Discussion of Educational Missions in the Period of Sultan Moulay Hassan” (Yehya Boulehya); “A Reading of Le frère, le sujet et le citoyen: Dynamique du statut politique de l'Individu en Tunisie” (Mohamed Tahar Mansouri); “Review of Tunisia in the Middle Ages: Ifriqiya from Dependent Emirate to Independent Sultanate” (Chamseddin Alkilani).

Published: 2016-07-01

Studies

  • History, Memory and Historiography: A Study of Sykes-Picot, the Caliphate, and the Memory of Religious Denominations in Leba

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani
    13-24

    History as a science (that is as an academic endeavor based on a method defined by rules) differs from historical memory, especially collective memory based on "recollection". The latter is a...

  • The Biography of the Prophet: Narrators and Authors

    Author: Hayet Amamo
    25-45

    Ibn Ishaq is generally regarded to be the earliest author of the Prophet Mohammed's biography (sira). Ibn Ishaq was able to make the most of Medinan authors who preceded him, including...

  • The Navigation Industry in Ibn Khaldoun's Muqaddimah

    Author: Mohamed Tahar Mansouri
    46-56

    In his Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldoun, the great author asserts that Arab only became sea oriented after their original encounter and intermingling with maritime civilizations. Ibn Khaldoun traces...

  • Scholarly Endowments (Waqf) for Rasulid Women in Zabid 626 - 858 AH/1229 - 1454 AD

    Author: Abdelhakim Seifeddin
    57-73

    The primary and secondary sources for social history, and parts of the media, often present a gloomy picture of the status of women in Islamic history, and the waning, if not disappearance, of...

  • The Religious Obligation of the Pilgrimage from Indonesia to Mecca

    Author: Yahya Mohamed Ahmed Ghaleb
    74-90

    At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the pilgrimage to Mecca became of great interest to Dutch colonial authorities, who used all means to prevent it, or at least minimize its...

  • German Historiography and the Nazi Complexd

    Author: Khaled Tahtah
    91-108

    Since the Second World War, large parts of the Nazi past have been off limits to critical discussion in Germany and across Europe. The unexpected turn taken by German capitalist society...

  • Tangier under Spanish Occupation (1940 - 1945)

    Author: Zeinab Hamouda
    109-124

    The author aims to shed light on the history of the city of Tangier during World War II. The city was an international zone from 1923, arrangement designation that differed from the protectorate...

Documents and Texts

  • Who is Andrad of Seville, Author of On the Nature, Kinds, and Deeds of the Horse?

    Author: Rachid Affaki
    199-217

    The real identity of the author writing On the Nature, Kinds, and Deeds of the Horse, a manuscript that has languished in a Moroccan library for centuries, has puzzled many researchers. The name...

  • Marginalized in Syria at the Turn of the Century: Oral Testimonies

    Author: Abdullah Hanna
    218-234

    Abdullah Hanna, one of the most prominent historians of modern Syria, was a keen adopter of the methods of oral history, and was especially fond of the structured field interview. Hanna's...

Translations

  • The Poetics of History

    Author: Hayden White
    127-158

    Hayden White,s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White...

Book Reviews

  • Arab History and the Crisis of Method seen through Mohammed Habida’s The Misery of History

    Author: Mohamed Tahar Mansouri
    161-165

    المؤلف: محمد حبيدة. عنوان الكتاب: بؤس التاريخ مراجعات ومقاربات. الناشر: دار الأمان، الرباط. سنة النشر: 2015 عدد الصفحات: 235 صفحة.

  • Review of Tunisia in the Middle Ages: Ifriqiya from Dependent Emirate to Independent Sultanate

    Author: Yassin al-Yahyawi
    166-171

    المؤلف: محمد الطاهر المنصوري. عنوان الكتاب: تونس في العصر الوسيط: إفريقية من الإمارة التابعة إلى السلطنة المستقلة. الناشر: دار صامد للنشر والتوزيع، صفاقس، تونس. سنة النشر: 2015 عدد الصفحات: 287...

  • Review and Discussion of Educational Missions in the Period of Sultan Moulay Hassan

    Author: Yehya Boulehya
    172-181

    المؤلف: جمال حيمر. عنوان الكتاب: البعثات التعليمية في عهد السلطان مولاي الحسن. الناشر: منشورات الزمن، المغرب. سنة النشر: 2015 عدد الصفحات: 183 صفحة.

  • A Reading of Le frère, le sujet et le citoyen: Dynamique du statut politique de l'Individu en Tunisie

    Author: Mohamed Tahar Mansouri
    182-185

    المؤلف: عبد الحميد هنية. عنوان الكتاب: الأخ، الرعية والمواطن: دينامية الوضع السياسي للفرد في البلاد التونسية. العنوان الأصلي: Le frère, le sujet et le citoyen: Dynamique du statut politique de...

  • Review of Tunisia in the Middle Ages: Ifriqiya from Dependent Emirate to Independent Sultanate

    Author: Chamseddin Alkilani
    186-195

    المؤلف: محمد الطاهر المنصوري. عنوان الكتاب: تونس في العصر الوسيط: إفريقية من الإمارة التابعة إلى السلطنة المستقلة. الناشر: دار صامد للنشر والتوزيع، صفاقس، تونس. سنة النشر: 2015. عدد الصفحات: 287...

Ostour Symposium

  • Fields of Historical Research in the Arab World (Ostour's Seminar)

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    235-324

    Ostour held its third discussion seminar on the subject of "Fields of Historical Research in the Arab World" on the fringes of the ACRPS conference "Arab History and Historiography: How was Arab...

Trajectories

  • Mohamed Tahar Al Mansuri: the Life of a Historian (1955 - 2016)

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    6-10

    تنعى أسرة مجلة أسطور للدراسات التاريخية ممثلة برئيس تحريرها الدكتور عزمي بشارة، وهيئة تحريرها ومجلسها الاستشاري العلمي، الدكتور محمد الطاهر المنصوري أحد أعمدة لجنتها العلمية وعضو هيئة تحريرها،...

  • A Conversation with Lebanese Historian Wajih Kawtharani

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    327-336

    Masarat (Arabic for "Trajectories") introduces Arab scholars who have made distinguished contributions through their historical writings, and reveals their relationships with their subjects as...