Vol. 7 No. 014 (2021): Issue 014

غلاف العدد 14 من دورية أسطور

Issue 14 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2021) includes the following studies and articles: “The Path to Renewal: The French Annales School from Emergence to Collapse (1)” (ناصر الدين سعيدوني); “Nineteenth Century Slave Markets: The Moroccan Slave Trade” (رحال بوبريك); “The Problematic Religious and Political Relationship between the Sultanate and the Christian Awqāf (Endowments) in Ottoman Jerusalem” (Musa Sroor); “The Balancing Powers in Kuwait During the 1938 Majlis Movement: New Insights From the Legislative Council’s Minutes” (Abdulrahman Alebrahim); “Makhzen and Beylik: Observations on the Features of Authority and Mechanisms of Government in the Maghreb: Tunisia and Morocco” (Abdelmajid Ait Elcaid); “State Memory and Territory between Memory and History: Tunisia and Morocco before Colonialism.” (Adnane Elkarssi); “Universal History (1)” (Ali Hakim Saleh, Susan Buck-Morss); “Archives in Israel, the Israeli Historical Narrative, and the Nakba: Unveiling the Report that Refutes the Israeli Historical Narrative” (Mahmoud Muhareb); “Historical Writing in Iraq” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “The Historian and The State” (Haider Saeed); “Contemporary Academic History in Iraq: Critical Approaches to the Study of Modern and Contemporary History” (جميل النجار); “Modern Iraqi history encyclopedias: Tracing their development from totalitarianism to regionalism” (Nasir al-Kaabi); “Iraqi historiography before and after 2003: Multiple variables, overlapping methodologies” (Nahar Muhammed Nuri); “The Challenges of Historiography in post-2003 Iraq” (سعد إسكندر); “Book review of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century” (Said Benhammada); “Book review of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century” (Fahmi Romdhani).

Published: 2021-07-01

Studies

  • The Path to Renewal: The French Annales School from Emergence to Collapse (1)

    Author: ناصر الدين سعيدوني
    7-23

    The French Annales School opened up new horizons for researchers through its efforts to renew the methodology, tools, sources and objects of historiography by drawing on other social sciences....

  • Nineteenth Century Slave Markets: The Moroccan Slave Trade

    Author: رحال بوبريك
    48-23

    This paper discusses commerce in Black African slave who were imported from western Sudan to Morocco in the 19th century. Based on statistics gleaned from previous studies we examine...

  • The Problematic Religious and Political Relationship between the Sultanate and the Christian Awqāf (Endowments) in Ottoman Jerusalem

    Author: Musa Sroor

    The Ottoman Sultanate inherited and adopted Islamic law in dealing with Awqāf (endowments) in the Ottoman provinces but during the Tanzimat era (1839-1878), it adopted a new “hostile” policy...

  • The Balancing Powers in Kuwait During the 1938 Majlis Movement: New Insights From the Legislative Council’s Minutes

    Author: Abdulrahman Alebrahim
    118-69

    This article attempts a rereading of the events surrounding the parliament of 1938, which thus far have been more discussed than analysed. Older literature on 1938 tends to assess it from an...

  • Makhzen and Beylik: Observations on the Features of Authority and Mechanisms of Government in the Maghreb: Tunisia and Morocco

    Author: Abdelmajid Ait Elcaid

    This paper assesses various aspects of the mechanisms and styles of government in the Maghreb through a complex comparison of precolonial Morocco and Tunisia. It assesses the concepts of power...

  • State Memory and Territory between Memory and History: Tunisia and Morocco before Colonialism.

    Author: Adnane Elkarssi
    96-134

    This paper is based on a re-reading of some of the references that shaped the state’s memory in Tunisia and Morocco, in the light of the epistemic debate that exists between memory and history....

Documents and Texts

  • Archives in Israel, the Israeli Historical Narrative, and the Nakba: Unveiling the Report that Refutes the Israeli Historical Narrative

    Author: Mahmoud Muhareb
    189-237

    This study explores Israeli archives, spotlighting the policy followed by Israeli governments regarding records of the 1948 war, the Nakba, and the Palestinian cause: to firmly seal access to...

Translations

  • Universal History (1)

    Author: Ali Hakim Saleh
    137-163

    In Summer 2000, Susan Buck-Morss published an essay in Critical Inquiry titled “Hegel and Haiti”. This article quickly developed into a real cultural phenomenon, attracting both high praise and...

Book Reviews

  • Book review of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

    Author: Said Benhammada
    167-175

    عنوان الكتاب : مغامرات ابن بطوطة الرحالة المسلم في القرن الرابع عشر الميلادي . عنوان الكتاب في لغته : The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim traveler of the Fourteenth Century . المؤلف : روس...

  • Book review of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

    Author: Fahmi Romdhani
    176-185

    المؤلف : لطفي عيسى. عنوان الكتاب : أخبار التونسيين: مراجعات في سرديات الانتماء والأصول. الناشر : دار مسكلياني للنشر والتوزيع، تونس. سنة النشر : 2019. عدد الصفحات : 350 صفحة.

Ostour Symposium

  • Historical Writing in Iraq

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    241-244

    عقدت دورية أسطور للدراسات التاريخية، في نيسان/ أبريل 2016، ندوة بعنوان "إشكاليات البحث في التاريخ العربي"، ساهم فيها باحثون من جامعات عربية مختلفة، وسلطوا الضوء على بعض جوانب تطور المعرفة...

  • The Historian and The State

    Author: Haider Saeed
    245-261

    A state’s relationship with the past is about more than just ideology. The internal logic of the state, irrespective of the ideology it adopts, drives it to seek control over historiography.

  • Contemporary Academic History in Iraq: Critical Approaches to the Study of Modern and Contemporary History

    Author: جميل النجار
    262-275

    تمثّل كتابة التاريخ ضربًا من ضروب تحصيل المعرفة التي تختص بالتحرّي عن حوادث الماضي بغية الوصول إلى ضبط تلك الحوادث وتدوينها. وتتخذ هذه العملية أدوات شتى للوصول إلى أهدافها، إلّا أنها لا تخرج عن...

  • Modern Iraqi history encyclopedias: Tracing their development from totalitarianism to regionalism

    Author: Nasir al-Kaabi
    275-282

    لا تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تناول تاريخ الكتابة التاريخية في العراق في الإجمال، فتدرس الاتجاهات أو المدارس أو المؤرخين، وهي موضوعات بُحثت بصور مختلفة، بل تهدف إلى تجاوز هذا النوع من التناول...

  • Iraqi historiography before and after 2003: Multiple variables, overlapping methodologies

    Author: Nahar Muhammed Nuri
    283-295

    بدءًا، لا بد من الإقرار بأن الدراسات التي تُعنى بمتابعة أنماط الكتابة التاريخية في العراق، ولا سيما في الزمن الراهن، تكاد تكون شحيحة، ومنها الدراسة الرائدة التي أطلقها المؤرخان الزوجان بيتر...

  • The Challenges of Historiography in post-2003 Iraq

    Author: سعد إسكندر
    296-304

    تتناول هذه الورقة موضوع الكتابة التاريخية عن العراق الحديث. وهي تستند إلى خبرة الباحث الشخصية في مجالين وثيقَي الصلة ببعضهما: الأول هو مجال الكتابة التاريخية، من جهة كون كاتب هذه السطور مؤرخًا...