Vol. 10 No. 010 (2019): Issue 010

غلاف العدد 10 من دورية أسطور

Issue 10 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2019) includes the following studies and articles: “The Historian and Quantitative Approaches: Demographic Studies of Islamic Cities Hypotheses and Questions” (Tariq Madani); “Religious and sectarian diversity in the early Islamic period: A study of Dirar b. ‘Amr al-Ghatafani’s (d.c. 200AH / 815 AD) Kitab at-Tahrish” (Abdulrahman Helli); “Power and Political Criminalization of the Opposition in the Maghreb and al,Andalus of the 10th century CE/4th century AH” (Said Benhammada); “Ceuta in the Strategy of the Powers of the Western Mediterranean” (Mohamed Cherif); “Arabic Origins of the Foundational Myth of Western Identity: Between Histories of the Conquest of America and the Conquest of al-Andalus” (Mohamed Abderrahman Hasan); “Monk and Faqih: An Intersecting Biography of Nicholas Kleinard and Muhammad bin Kharouf” (Mohamed Bekkour); “French Islamic School Alumni Associations and the Moroccan National Movement (1921-1956)” (Ilyas Foutouh); “Narrative and the Real World: An Argument for Continuity” (Thaer Deeb, David Carr); “Four buried letters on Bayt al,Maghrib in Cairo” (Salwa al-Zahiri); “Arab Historians And Their Sources” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “Arab Historians And Their Sources (Background paper)”; “Researching the Archive of the French Foreign Ministry: Data Analysis in Social and Political Affairs” (Wajih Kawtharani); “A Reseach Experience in Tunisia’s Modern Ottoman Archives”; “My Experience in the Portuguese Archives”; “Review of The Dialectic of Identity and History: Tunisian Readings of Hicham Djait” (Fahmi Romdhani); “Renewal in Ibrahim al-Qadiri Boutchiche’s Historiography: A Reading of Marginalized People in the History of the Islamic West: Theoretical and Practical Problems in Subaltern History” (Khaled Belarbi); “On the Need to Define the Historian’s Trade: A Reading of Bayadh al-Tayyeb’s The Press and History” (Jamal Fazzeh).

Published: 2019-07-01

Studies

  • The Historian and Quantitative Approaches: Demographic Studies of Islamic Cities Hypotheses and Questions

    Author: Tariq Madani
    7-32

    The historian attempting to comprehensively establish the living conditions of a particular society, or to determine rises and falls in population, is setting out on a difficult path. The...

  • Religious and sectarian diversity in the early Islamic period: A study of Dirar b. ‘Amr al-Ghatafani’s (d.c. 200AH / 815 AD) Kitab at-Tahrish

    Author: Abdulrahman Helli
    33-48

    This article is a study and analysis of Dirar b. 'Amr's Kitab at,Tahrish demonstrating the religious and sectarian diversity of, as well as differences among, the Muslims of the second century...

  • Power and Political Criminalization of the Opposition in the Maghreb and al,Andalus of the 10th century CE/4th century AH

    Author: Said Benhammada
    49-66

    This study discusses the policy of political criminalization adopted by the Fatimid and Umayyad Caliphates against their internal opposition. The political conflict experienced by the Maghreb...

  • Ceuta in the Strategy of the Powers of the Western Mediterranean

    Author: Mohamed Cherif
    67-86

    Thanks to its geostrategic position on the Strait of Gibraltar, the city of Ceuta was one of the major trading centers of the medieval Mediterranean. Under the Afazids it was one of the key...

  • Arabic Origins of the Foundational Myth of Western Identity: Between Histories of the Conquest of America and the Conquest of al-Andalus

    Author: Mohamed Abderrahman Hasan
    87-101

    The history of the conquest of America has constituted a primary source of self-perception and identity formation for Western nations, feeding their imaginary that sees them as superior to other...

  • Monk and Faqih: An Intersecting Biography of Nicholas Kleinard and Muhammad bin Kharouf

    Author: Mohamed Bekkour
    102-120

    This study attempts to reconstruct the biography of the Belgian monk Nicholas Kleinard and the Tunisian Faqih Muhammad bin Kharouf, focusing on uncovering the circumstances of their meeting in...

  • French Islamic School Alumni Associations and the Moroccan National Movement (1921-1956)

    Author: Ilyas Foutouh
    121-142

    Islamic Alumni Associations have been little discussed in Moroccan historiography, either because of a scarcity of sources or because writers have been interested more in events and political...

Documents and Texts

  • Four buried letters on Bayt al,Maghrib in Cairo

    Author: Salwa al-Zahiri
    189-208

    Cairo’s Bayt al,Maghrib is considered the first official organized Moroccan cultural organization outside the country in its modern history. It was founded as part of a policy of sending...

Translations

  • Narrative and the Real World: An Argument for Continuity

    Authors: Thaer Deeb, David Carr
    145-158

    Narrative and the real world are not mutually exclusive. Life is not a structureless sequence of events; it consists of complex structures of temporal configurations that interlock and receive...

Book Reviews

  • Review of The Dialectic of Identity and History: Tunisian Readings of Hicham Djait

    Author: Fahmi Romdhani
    161-169

    Review of The Dialectic of Identity and History: Tunisian Readings of Hicham Djait

  • Renewal in Ibrahim al-Qadiri Boutchiche’s Historiography: A Reading of Marginalized People in the History of the Islamic West: Theoretical and Practical Problems in Subaltern History

    Author: Khaled Belarbi
    170-179

    Renewal in Ibrahim al-Qadiri Boutchiche’s Historiography: A Reading of Marginalized People in the History of the Islamic West: Theoretical and Practical Problems in Subaltern History

  • On the Need to Define the Historian’s Trade: A Reading of Bayadh al-Tayyeb’s The Press and History

    Author: Jamal Fazzeh
    180-186

    On the Need to Define the Historian’s Trade: A Reading of Bayadh al-Tayyeb’s The Press and History

Ostour Symposium

  • Arab Historians And Their Sources

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    211-214

    On 29,30 April, 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, with...

  • Arab Historians And Their Sources (Background paper)

    Author: عبد الحميد هنية
    215-217

    Arab Historians And Their Sources (Background paper)

  • Researching the Archive of the French Foreign Ministry: Data Analysis in Social and Political Affairs

    Author: Wajih Kawtharani
    218-231

    Researching the Archive of the French Foreign Ministry: Data Analysis in Social and Political Affairs

  • A Reseach Experience in Tunisia’s Modern Ottoman Archives

    Author: عبد الحميد هنية
    232-245

    A Reseach Experience in Tunisia’s Modern Ottoman Archives

  • My Experience in the Portuguese Archives

    246-256

    My Experience in the Portuguese Archives