Vol. 6 No. 011 (2020): Issue 011

غلاف العدد 11 من دورية أسطور

Issue 11 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2020) includes the following studies and articles: “The Hermeneutic Approach to History: Towards Involving the Historian in the Interpretation of Historical Texts” (Brahim Elkadiri Boutchich); “Memory Studies in social and human sciences: An international interest and an arabic deficiencies” (Zouheir Soukah); “The Geography of History in Light of Interdisciplinarity: An Attempt to Reshape the Concept” (Ali el-Salah Moula); “Prosopography: An Approach to Studying Elites and Social Groups” (Rajae Ankoud); “Water and Settlement in Ancient North Africa” (Samir Ait Oumghar); “Ceuta in the Strategy of the Powers of the Western Mediterranean (Part 2)” (Mohamed Cherif); “Proving and Silencing: How Palestinian Fighters Ended “Annexation” (15 May 1948 – January 1949) in the writings of Qassem Al Rimawi on al-Jihad al-Muqaddas” (Bilal Mohammed Shalash); “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality” (Hayden White); “Notes on the translation of the texts of treaties concluded between the Mamluk Sultans and the Italian Cities” (Pierre Moukarzel); “Summary of Ostour Seminar: Arab Historians and their Sources, Part 2” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Historians and Travel, or, How Can Travel Sit at the Heartof the Historian's Writing? Moroccan and Eastern Ottoman Travel as an Example” (Mustapha el Ghachi); “Mutual Ignorance of Ottoman and Moroccan Sources” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “Historical Sources and their Uses in the Relationship of Minorities to Otherness in Tunisia” (Abdelhamid Hénia); “The Historian of Modernity in the Arab World and the Problem of Sources: General Observations on Tunisia and Libya” (Fathi Lissir); “Trade in Wadi Noun during the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century By Abdul Hadi Al-Maden” (Bouzid Laghla); “A Review of The Socio-Cultural and Economic Structures of The Ottoman Empire by Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu” (Kheireddine Saidi).

Published: 2020-01-01

Studies

  • The Hermeneutic Approach to History: Towards Involving the Historian in the Interpretation of Historical Texts

    Author: Brahim Elkadiri Boutchich
    7-32

    This study reviews the question of historical methodology using two hypotheses. The first examines the validity of the concept of "animal symbolicum" as a means to define humans and the concept...

  • Memory Studies in social and human sciences: An international interest and an arabic deficiencies

    Author: Zouheir Soukah
    33-58

    This paper introduces the field of memory studies as the sum of interdisciplinary approaches in the human and social sciences considering the social perceptions of the collective past with...

  • The Geography of History in Light of Interdisciplinarity: An Attempt to Reshape the Concept

    Author: Ali el-Salah Moula
    55-79

    This study attempts to answer the central question: how far has Arab academia been able to keep up with new approaches outside traditional writing? It takes history as the field on which this...

  • Prosopography: An Approach to Studying Elites and Social Groups

    Author: Rajae Ankoud
    81-100

    This study introduces prosopography, or collective biography, as an approach or methodology that can help historical research. Prosopography studies the various shared characteristics of a group...

  • Water and Settlement in Ancient North Africa

    Author: Samir Ait Oumghar
    101-128

    Classical literary texts and modern historical and archaeological studies alike connect the emergence and evolution of ancient eastern civilizations to their proximity to the major rivers of the...

  • Ceuta in the Strategy of the Powers of the Western Mediterranean (Part 2)

    Author: Mohamed Cherif
    129-146

    The first part of this study considers the strategic importance of the city of Ceuta and assesses its commercial relationships with some of the powers of the West Mediterranean basin. We...

  • Proving and Silencing: How Palestinian Fighters Ended “Annexation” (15 May 1948 – January 1949) in the writings of Qassem Al Rimawi on al-Jihad al-Muqaddas

    Author: Bilal Mohammed Shalash
    148-173

    This paper studies the position of al-Jihad al-Muqaddas, the most prominent Palestinian force in the 1947-1949 war, on Jordanian attempts to annex the remainder of central Palestine. It draws on...

Documents and Texts

  • Notes on the translation of the texts of treaties concluded between the Mamluk Sultans and the Italian Cities

    Author: Pierre Moukarzel
    215-233

    Many copies of treaties concluded between European sovereigns and the Mamluk sultans are preserved in European archival centers, particularly in Venice, Genoa, Florence, Barcelona and Ragusa....

Translations

  • The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality

    Author: Hayden White
    177-196

    Translation: Thaer Deeb Thaer Deeb provides an Arabic translation of this famous article, first published by White in Critical Enquiry (Autumn 1980).

Book Reviews

  • Trade in Wadi Noun during the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century By Abdul Hadi Al-Maden

    Author: Bouzid Laghla
    199-204

    Trade in Wadi Noun during the 19 th Century and the Early 20 th Century

  • A Review of The Socio-Cultural and Economic Structures of The Ottoman Empire by Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu

    Author: Kheireddine Saidi
    205-212

    A Review of The Socio-Cultural and Economic Structures of The Ottoman Empire by Mübahat S. Kütükoğlu Original title: Osmanlı'nın Sosyso-Kültürel ve Ekonomik Yapısı

Ostour Symposium

  • Summary of Ostour Seminar: Arab Historians and their Sources, Part 2

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    237-237

    On 29-30 April 2019, Ostour – in collaboration with the Department of History at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies – held a seminar titled Arab Historians And Their Sources in Doha, Qatar,...

  • Historians and Travel, or, How Can Travel Sit at the Heartof the Historian's Writing? Moroccan and Eastern Ottoman Travel as an Example

    Author: Mustapha el Ghachi
    238-251

    Historians and Travel, or, How Can Travel Sit at the Heartof the Historian's Writing? Moroccan and Eastern Ottoman Travel as an Example.

  • Mutual Ignorance of Ottoman and Moroccan Sources

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    252-265

    Summary of Ostour Seminar: Arab Historians and their Sources, Part 2 Mutual Ignorance of Ottoman and Moroccan Sources

  • Historical Sources and their Uses in the Relationship of Minorities to Otherness in Tunisia

    Author: Abdelhamid Hénia
    266-283

    Summary of Ostour Seminar: Arab Historians and their Sources, Part 2 Historical Sources and their Uses in the Relationship of Minorities to Otherness in Tunisia

  • The Historian of Modernity in the Arab World and the Problem of Sources: General Observations on Tunisia and Libya

    Author: Fathi Lissir
    284-301

    Summary of Ostour Seminar: Arab Historians and their Sources, Part 2 The Historian of Modernity in the Arab World and the Problem of Sources: General Observations on Tunisia and Libya