Vol. 4 No. 007 (2018): Issue 007
Issue 7 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “Byzantium’s Official Attitude towards Islam as imagined by Abu Sufyan: The Impact of the Imaginary on Self-Perception and Perception of the Other” (Béchir Labidi); “Sassanid Sultanic Literature in the Early Abbasid Court and the Question of its Transfer” (Nasir al-Kaabi); “Manifestations of Renewal in the Field of History in Tunisia between the 17th and 19th Centuries” (Abdelhamid Hénia); “Historical Knowledge Production” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “The Algerian Elite and its Connection to a Reform Movement” (Noureddine Teniou); “Collective Memory as a Subject of Historical Research: A Study of Selected Historians from the Third Generation of the Annales School” (Yassin al-Yahyawi); “Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I know about it” (Thaer Deeb, Carlo Ginzburg); “When History Becomes the Science of the State in the Arab World” (Abdelhamid Hénia); ““Historians in the Service of the State: Ernest Lavisse and Ahmad Al Nasseri”” (Houbaida Mohamed); ““Historical Knowledge and the State among Historians of Rural Tunisia in the Modern Era”” (Mohammed Merimi); ““Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century Tunisia: History as a Justification for the Reform-minded State”” (Slimane Ben Fatma); ““On the National Imaginary and the Birth of Nations: the Case of Lebanon”” (Wajih Kawtharani); ““From Defending the State and Modernization to Spreading the Ideals of Citizenship: Transformations in Tunisian Historical Writing”” (Jamel bentahar); “The Islamic Minority in Sicily between Integration, Confrontation and Identity Conflict (484-591AH / 1091-1194AD): Contribution to the Study of the History of Minorities.” (Mohammed Amrani Zerrifi); ““The Paradise of the Infidels” the Travel Account of Mohammed Effendi to Paris in 1721 Revised and edited: Abderrahim Benhadda” (Mustapha el Ghachi); “Biography and Contemporary History: Reading the Memoires of Salim Hijja” (Bilal Mohammed Shalash); “Sharia Court Records - A New Historiographical Method for the Arabs in the Ottoman Period” (Ghandi Mohtar).
