Vol. 4 No. 008 (2018): Issue 008

غلاف العدد 8 من دورية أسطور

Issue 8 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2018) includes the following studies and articles: “History Writing for Jules Michelet” (Yassine Zainoune); “The Murder of Hujr ibn Adi and the Ideological Reading of History” (Amr Osman); “Aspects of Relational History: Morocco and the Ottoman State between the 16th and 18th Century” (Abdel-Rahman al-Mouden); “Late Piracy off the Rif Coast in the 19th Century” (Mohamed Ahmian); “Iraqi Specificities and the Refutation of the “Artificialness” of Iraq” (Nahar Muhammed Nuri); “The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg” (Carlo Ginzburg, Thaer Deeb); “Ostour Seminar - One Hundred Years after the Balfour Declaration: Context and Implications” (Ostour Editorial Commitee); “The Reverberation of the Balfour Declaration in Jewish, Arab, Ottoman, and International Circles 1917–1920” (Ali Mahafzah); “Echoes of the Balfour Declaration in Morocco” (Jamaa Baida); “The Balfour Declaration in Palestinian Newspapers from 1917 till the Buraq Revolution of 1929” (Saleh al-Shoura); “Land, Property Rights, and Colonial Procrastination: Between the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba” (Munir Fakhr al-Din); “A review of History of Minorities in the Far Maghreb: The Case of Christians during the Middle Ages” (Rabhi Radwan); “Reviews the Arabic translation of Mohammed al-Naji's Soldiers, Servants and Concubines: A History of Slavery in Morocco” (Faouzi Boukhriss); “Review of The Emirs of Houran: The Al Fawwaz as the Sheikhs of the Sardiya” (Mohannad Al Mubaidin).

Published: 2018-07-01

Studies

  • History Writing for Jules Michelet

    Author: Yassine Zainoune
    7-30

    French historiography witnessed a real revolution in the 19th century, a time in which history in France was liberated from philosophy and theology, became academically independent and built a...

  • The Murder of Hujr ibn Adi and the Ideological Reading of History

    Author: Amr Osman
    31-49

    The killing of Hijr ibn Adi the Kindite by Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan in 51 AH/ 671 AD might be understood as just a classical example of the execution of political opponents in Islamic history....

  • Aspects of Relational History: Morocco and the Ottoman State between the 16th and 18th Century

    Author: Abdel-Rahman al-Mouden
    50-59

    This article deals with the subject of diplomatic history, an old field of study that has recently witnessed considerable rebirth through the guise of “relational history”. Following a review of...

  • Late Piracy off the Rif Coast in the 19th Century

    Author: Mohamed Ahmian
    60-73

    In the nineteenth century, the Mediterranean Basin was teeming with sea traffic. The European powers, following the Congress of Vienna, worked to unify their efforts to curtail piracy in the...

  • Iraqi Specificities and the Refutation of the “Artificialness” of Iraq

    Author: Nahar Muhammed Nuri
    74-108

    The main premise of this paper emerges from a treatment of the identities dominant throughout the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth. Specifically, and significantly, this paper...

Translations

  • The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

    Author: Carlo Ginzburg
    111-120

    In our last issue we published Carlo Ginzburg’s article, “Microhistory: Two or Three Things I know about it,” and in this edition we are publishing the foreword to the Italian edition of his...

Book Reviews

  • A review of History of Minorities in the Far Maghreb: The Case of Christians during the Middle Ages

    Author: Rabhi Radwan
    123-129

    A review of History of Minorities in the Far Maghreb: The Case of Christians during the Middle Ages.

  • Reviews the Arabic translation of Mohammed al-Naji's Soldiers, Servants and Concubines: A History of Slavery in Morocco

    Author: Faouzi Boukhriss
    130-134

    Reviews the Arabic translation of Mohammed al-Naji's Soldiers, Servants and Concubines: A History of Slavery in Morocco.

  • Review of The Emirs of Houran: The Al Fawwaz as the Sheikhs of the Sardiya

    Author: Mohannad Al Mubaidin
    135-139

    Review of The Emirs of Houran: The Al Fawwaz as the Sheikhs of the Sardiya.

Ostour Symposium

  • Ostour Seminar - One Hundred Years after the Balfour Declaration: Context and Implications

    Author: Ostour Editorial Commitee
    143-145

    Ostour Seminar - One Hundred Years after the Balfour Declaration: Context and Implications.

  • The Reverberation of the Balfour Declaration in Jewish, Arab, Ottoman, and International Circles 1917–1920

    Author: Ali Mahafzah
    146-169

    The Reverberation of the Balfour Declaration in Jewish, Arab, Ottoman, and International Circles 1917–1920.

  • Echoes of the Balfour Declaration in Morocco

    Author: Jamaa Baida
    170-177

    Echoes of the Balfour Declaration in Morocco.

  • The Balfour Declaration in Palestinian Newspapers from 1917 till the Buraq Revolution of 1929

    Author: Saleh al-Shoura
    178-192

    The Balfour Declaration in Palestinian Newspapers from 1917 till the Buraq Revolution of 1929.

  • Land, Property Rights, and Colonial Procrastination: Between the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba

    Author: Munir Fakhr al-Din
    193-209

    Land, Property Rights, and Colonial Procrastination: Between the Balfour Declaration and the Nakba