Vol. 6 No. 012 (2020): Issue 012

غلاف العدد 12 من دورية أسطور

Issue 12 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2020) includes the following studies and articles: “Intellectual History: Origin, Subject, Curriculum and Its Status in Modern Arab Historical Studies” (Amr Osman); “Methods of Historical Classification through the Introductions of History Books” (Ali Mazyan); “State Presence and Representations in Peripheral Areas: The Regency of Tunis in the Modern Period” (Mustapha Tlili); “Looking at the Safavid Harem in a new light” (Mahboobeh Majeedzadeh); “Historiography and Constructing the Modern Nation-State in Turkey” (Souad Benali); “Transformations in Historiography: from elite history toward a history of the marginalized” (محمد غاشي); “The Algerian Revolution in the United Nations” (Noureddine Teniou); “Approaches in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Articles Translated from French” (Mustapha Tlili); “Jewish Trade Mediation between Morocco and the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: By way of documents in the National Archive, The Hague” (Abdulghani al-Omrani); “Arab Historians and Their Sources” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “Towards an Exit Plan from Micro- to Macro-History: the Documents of the Jerusalem Waqf as a Historical Source” (Musa Sroor); “The History of the Marginalized in Palestine: from the Ottoman Rule to the Nakba and Beyond” (Adel Manaa); “Colonialism in the Imaginary: Jerusalem in the Early Photograph.” (Issam Nassar); “Arab Historical Knowledge Production: Contexts of Constructing Meaning and Forms of Interpreting the Representative” (Lotfi Aïssa); “The City in the Islamic World: From Imitation to Modernization (A Reading of the book The Arab City and Modernity)” (Abderrahim Benhadda).

Published: 2020-07-01

Studies

  • Intellectual History: Origin, Subject, Curriculum and Its Status in Modern Arab Historical Studies

    Author: Amr Osman
    11-32

    The aim of this paper is twofold: to present the rise and development of intellectual history as a distinct field of historical enquiry in modern Western historiography and to discuss some of...

  • Methods of Historical Classification through the Introductions of History Books

    Author: Ali Mazyan
    33-60

    The historian’s job was initially to separate between that which is related to people and that which is related to events and facts. They moved from merely gathering news, to looking at the...

  • State Presence and Representations in Peripheral Areas: The Regency of Tunis in the Modern Period

    Author: Mustapha Tlili
    61-75

    Most studies concerning the state have focused on its leadership, apparatuses, structures, and central institutions. Researchers tend to use documents centrally produced, privileging exclusively...

  • Looking at the Safavid Harem in a new light

    Author: Mahboobeh Majeedzadeh
    76-96

    The topic of the harem was central to the work of orientalists and European travellers. They created fantasies about the harem that transcended reality and largely influenced by their own...

  • Historiography and Constructing the Modern Nation-State in Turkey

    Author: Souad Benali
    97-106

    Following Mustafa Kemal’s 1923 declaration of its establishment, the modern state of Turkey found itself before the issue of erecting the pillars of its fledgling national identity. In...

  • Transformations in Historiography: from elite history toward a history of the marginalized

    Author: محمد غاشي
    107-121

    For a long time, the expression “hero’s complex” has been accepted as conventional wisdom within the very soul of historical knowledge. Over the passage of time, it evolved into a sort of...

  • The Algerian Revolution in the United Nations

    Author: Noureddine Teniou
    122-151

    New political realities emerged in the wake of the First World War (1914-1918), including deference to an international authority, rising above states and national political units, in order to...

Documents and Texts

  • Jewish Trade Mediation between Morocco and the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: By way of documents in the National Archive, The Hague

    Author: Abdulghani al-Omrani
    195-210

    In the nineteenth century, Jews received a variety of forms of protection and concern from both the sultans of Morocco and the Dutch; they enjoyed several types of privileges, especially...

Translations

  • Approaches in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Articles Translated from French

    Author: Mustapha Tlili
    155-166

    These three articles translated from French were published in a collective work, concerning the issues “Comparative History and Intersectional History,” “Structuralism,” and “The History of...

Book Reviews

  • Arab Historical Knowledge Production: Contexts of Constructing Meaning and Forms of Interpreting the Representative

    Author: Lotfi Aïssa
    169-181

    The studies contained in this book have provided us with a valuable opportunity to look more closely at the level of knowledge accumulation in this discipline.

  • The City in the Islamic World: From Imitation to Modernization (A Reading of the book The Arab City and Modernity)

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    182-191

    The City in the Islamic World: From Imitation to Modernization (A Reading of the book The Arab City and Modernity)

Ostour Symposium

  • Arab Historians and Their Sources

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    213-213

    Ostour , the ACRPS Journal for Historical Studies, in cooperation with the Department of History at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, held a symposium titled “ Arab Historians and Their...

  • Towards an Exit Plan from Micro- to Macro-History: the Documents of the Jerusalem Waqf as a Historical Source

    Author: Musa Sroor
    214-232

    This research tries to identify the different types of Islamic Waqf documents as a historical source and their significance in dating the cities in the cities as well as the local communities....

  • The History of the Marginalized in Palestine: from the Ottoman Rule to the Nakba and Beyond

    Author: Adel Manaa
    233-243

    The History of the Marginalized in Palestine: from the Ottoman Rule to the Nakba and Beyond

  • Colonialism in the Imaginary: Jerusalem in the Early Photograph.

    Author: Issam Nassar
    244-260

    Colonialism in the Imaginary: Jerusalem in the Early Photograph.