Vol. 11 No. 023 (2025): Issue 023

غلاف العدد 23 من دورية أسطور

Issue 23 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2025) includes the following studies and articles: “From Imposed Peace to Peace Subject to Renegotiation” (Odile Moreau); “The Significance of Lausanne for Arabs and Turks” (Mahmoud Haddad); “The Exclusion of Arabs at Lausanne: A Decisive Historical Turn” (Elizabeth F. Thompson); “Alongside the Lausanne Negotiations The Belated Arab-Turkish Reconciliation Agreement” (Mohamed Jamal Barout); “Separating Sultanate from Caliphate The Historical Context and Consequences of” (Wajih Kawtharani); “The End of the Ottoman Caliphate and Muslims of the Subcontinent” (Azmi Özcan); “History and Psychoanalysis: The Genealogy of a Relationship” (Anas Riri); “Ottoman Documents on the House of Hussein Pasha of Tunis in Istanbul” (Mouayed Mnari); “Importance of the Serial and Quantitative Methodology in History and its Application in the History of Lebanon” (Souad Abou El-Rousse Slim); “The Historiography of Lebanese Cities” (Khaled Ziadeh); “Local History in Mount Lebanon in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (Simon Abdelmassih); “Atatürk. Eine Biographie By Klaus Kreiser” (Sayyar Jamil); “Wadi Musa and Petra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (Mothana Almasri); “Wadi Musa and Petra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries” (Youness Ghab); “The Achievement of Saladin” (Hamilton Gibb); “Hamilton Gibb and His Works on Islam and the Crusades: Between the Mirror of Orientalism and History” (Ahmed Mohamed Sheir).

Published: 2025-01-01

Studies

  • From Imposed Peace to Peace Subject to Renegotiation

    Author: Odile Moreau

    This study focuses on the occupation of the Ottoman Empire directly after the truce and the goals that motivated the Allied Powers, seeking to understand this transitional period that reshaped...

  • The Significance of Lausanne for Arabs and Turks

    Author: Mahmoud Haddad

    This study addresses the implications of the Lausanne Conference through a comparison between Arabs and Turks. It refutes arguments in the literature that the Arabs were not as politically or...

  • The Exclusion of Arabs at Lausanne: A Decisive Historical Turn

    Author: Elizabeth F. Thompson

    This study discusses the exclusion of Arabs at Lausanne and offers a different reading of the fact that understanding the post-First World War moment in the Middle East cannot be confined to...

  • Alongside the Lausanne Negotiations The Belated Arab-Turkish Reconciliation Agreement

    Author: Mohamed Jamal Barout

    This study analyses the relationship between (a) Britain's exclusion of Arab representatives of the Hashemite government of the Hejaz from the Lausanne Conference and (b) that government's...

  • Separating Sultanate from Caliphate The Historical Context and Consequences of

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani

    This study examines the memorandum "The Caliphate and the Authority of the People" as a historical, jurisprudential, and legal study. It argues that this study laid the theoretical and...

  • The End of the Ottoman Caliphate and Muslims of the Subcontinent

    Author: Azmi Özcan

    This study discusses the historical and religious developments that brought about the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate. It begins with a brief overview of the roots of the caliphate...

Documents and Texts

  • Ottoman Documents on the House of Hussein Pasha of Tunis in Istanbul

    Author: Mouayed Mnari

    This article examines the rule of the Turkish Pasha Abu Muhammad Hussein over the province of Tunis (1591-1596) through three archival documents preserved in the Topkapi Palace Museum in...

Translations

  • History and Psychoanalysis: The Genealogy of a Relationship

    Author: Anas Riri

    Historical knowledge necessitates an essential dialogue with psychoanalysis, whereby historical events transform into unconscious texts requiring critical deconstruction. This dialectical...

Book Reviews

  • Atatürk. Eine Biographie By Klaus Kreiser

    Author: Sayyar Jamil

    Author: Klaus Kreiser Translator: Soumiya Kouzal Title: Atatürk: A Biography Original Title: Atatürk: Eine Biographie Publisher: Doha / Beirut: Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies Year...

  • Wadi Musa and Petra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Author: Mothana Almasri

    Author: Suleiman Ali Ibrahim Al-Farajat Title: Wadi Musa and Petra: In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Publisher: Amman: Jordanian Ministry of Culture and Arts Year of Publication: 2023...

  • Wadi Musa and Petra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Author: Youness Ghab

    Author: Marc Bloch Translator: Oumria Soultani Title: The Strange Defeat: Testimony Written in 1940 Original Title: L'étrange défaite: Témoignage écrit en 1940 Publisher: Doha / Beirut: Arab...

Ostour Symposium

  • Importance of the Serial and Quantitative Methodology in History and its Application in the History of Lebanon

    Author: Souad Abou El-Rousse Slim

    This Article presents the new methodology for writing history that is issued from the problems of the present this methodology is based on a series of statistics and figures that cover a...

  • The Historiography of Lebanese Cities

    Author: Khaled Ziadeh

    This study explores the historiography of Lebanese cities, highlighting the ideological frameworks that have shaped scholarly approaches. One current emphasizes the Phoenician heritage of...

  • Local History in Mount Lebanon in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    Author: Simon Abdelmassih

    The local history of Mount Lebanon is a cultural phenomenon that is only paralleled by the history of coastal Arab cities such as Tripoli, Beirut, and saida, and other inland cities such as...

Classics

  • The Achievement of Saladin

    Author: Hamilton Gibb

    This study examines the biography of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, going beyond his image as a military leader, and questioning whether his achievements stemmed from personal ambition or other moral...

  • Hamilton Gibb and His Works on Islam and the Crusades: Between the Mirror of Orientalism and History

    Author: Ahmed Mohamed Sheir

    This study evaluates the works of the prominent British Orientalist Hamilton Gibb, who contributed to Islamic studies in the 20th century, particularly through his book Studies on the...