Vol. 3 No. 005 (2017): Issue 005

غلاف العدد 5 من دورية أسطور

Issue 5 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2017) includes the following studies and articles: “How Academic Research Contributes to Enhanced Definitions of Terms The Case of Etymology” (Elhassane Laghraib); “Echoes of Ancient Myths and Rituals in Contemporary Abrahamic Religions” (Amal Arbid); “The Transition from the Timar System to the Iltizam System in the Ottoman Sanjak of Tripoli” (Mohamed Jamal Barout); “The 1729 Peace Treaty between the Eyalet of Algiers and the Kingdom of Sweden” (Abdelhadi Radjai Salmi); “The Functions of the Traditional Amazigh Inafless Council before the French Protectorate of Morocco The Case of the Idawtana” (Rabii Rachidi); “Merchants and the Drive for Democracy in Kuwait (1921-1939)” (Mohammad Mahmoud Al Tanahy); “From Negotiations to Infiltration The relationship between the Jewish Agency and the Syrian National Bloc and the Shahbandar” (Mahmoud Muhareb); “The knowledge of everyday life Marxism as critical knowledge of everyday life” (Henri Lefebvre); “From Establishing the Palestine Students’ Union to Resisting Forced Resettlement Fathi Balawi memoirs” (Moueen Al-Taher); “The Ostour Symposium: “Teaching History in Arab Universities”” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “A review of Educational Missions Overseas from Japan and Morocco (1840s-1940s)” (Hikmat Alabdulrahman); “A review of Religion and Secularism in Historical Context, by Azmi Bishara” (Mohamed Tahar Mansouri); “A review of Hassan II: the Maligned King: Moroccan Political History under Hassan II” (Elhaj Sassioui).

Published: 2017-01-01

Studies

  • How Academic Research Contributes to Enhanced Definitions of Terms The Case of Etymology

    Author: Elhassane Laghraib
    7-15

    Academic research plays a vital role in constantly improving the definitions of technical terms across all fields of knowledge, including fields where public awareness plays a major role and...

  • Echoes of Ancient Myths and Rituals in Contemporary Abrahamic Religions

    Author: Amal Arbid
    17-47

    This paper presents some of the mythology of millennia-old ancient civilizations and the rituals which accompanied these myths before exploring the significant and essential resemblance to the...

  • The Transition from the Timar System to the Iltizam System in the Ottoman Sanjak of Tripoli

    Author: Mohamed Jamal Barout
    48-73

    This paper examines how the replacement of the Timar land-holding system with the Iltizam form within the Ottoman Eyalet of Tripoli impacted the Alawi religious community settled in the...

  • The 1729 Peace Treaty between the Eyalet of Algiers and the Kingdom of Sweden

    Author: Abdelhadi Radjai Salmi
    74-114

    This paper explores the “Treaty of Peace and Commerce” which was joined by the Eyalet of Algiers and the Kingdom of Sweden in 1729. The author details the day-to-day negotiations which built up...

  • The Functions of the Traditional Amazigh Inafless Council before the French Protectorate of Morocco The Case of the Idawtana

    Author: Rabii Rachidi
    115-139

    The Amazigh institution of the Inafless was a significant factor in the social and legal acclimation of Moroccans living in traditional tribal societies prior to the French Protectorate (1912)....

  • Merchants and the Drive for Democracy in Kuwait (1921-1939)

    Author: Mohammad Mahmoud Al Tanahy
    140-163

    This paper explores the contribution of merchants to the rise of democracy in Kuwait during the early part of the twentieth century. In that period, a number of incidents combined to lay the...

  • From Negotiations to Infiltration The relationship between the Jewish Agency and the Syrian National Bloc and the Shahbandar

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    165-200

    This paper examines the secret relationship between the Jewish Agency, the leaders of the Syrian independence movement, as well as the Shahbandar opposition during the Great Palestinian...

Documents and Texts

  • From Establishing the Palestine Students’ Union to Resisting Forced Resettlement Fathi Balawi memoirs

    Author: Moueen Al-Taher
    271-288

    This paper forms the nucleus of a lecture which the author intends to deliver in Doha, Qatar It is based entirely on the unpublished personal diaries of Fathi Balawi, which are archived in Doha...

Translations

  • The knowledge of everyday life Marxism as critical knowledge of everyday life

    Author: Henri Lefebvre
    203-233

    This article provides the Arabic translation of the second and third chapters, Volume I of Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life. This work which regards quotidian life, despite being...

Book Reviews

  • A review of Educational Missions Overseas from Japan and Morocco (1840s-1940s)

    Author: Hikmat Alabdulrahman
    245-257

    المؤلف: يحيى بولحية. عنوان الكتاب: البعثات التعليمية في اليابان والمغرب من أربعينيات القرن التاسع عشر حتى أربعينيات القرن العشرين تباين المقدمات واختلاف النتائج. الناشر: المركز العربي للأبحاث...

  • A review of Religion and Secularism in Historical Context, by Azmi Bishara

    Author: Mohamed Tahar Mansouri
    237-243

    المؤلف: عزمي بشارة. عنوان الكتاب: الدين والعلمانية في سياق تاريخي. الناشر: المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات. سنة النشر: 2013 / 2015 . عدد الصفحات: 1888 صفحة.

  • A review of Hassan II: the Maligned King: Moroccan Political History under Hassan II

    Author: Elhaj Sassioui
    258-267

    المؤلف: مصطفى العلوي. عنوان الكتاب: الحسن الثاني: الملك المظلوم. الناشر: دار أبي رقراق للطباعة والنشر، الرباط – المغرب. سنة النشر: 2015. عدد الصفحات: 398 صفحة.

Ostour Symposium

  • The Ostour Symposium: “Teaching History in Arab Universities”

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    291-351

    In this edition of the journal, the Ostour Symposium offers an overview of the International Academic Conference hosted in 2015 by the Department of Humanities at Qatar University , which...