Vol. 7 No. 013 (2021): Issue 013

غلاف العدد 13 من دورية أسطور

Issue 13 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2021) includes the following studies and articles: “Historical Writing: Epistemological Junctures” (Adil ET-Tahiri); “Ottoman Historians and State Reform A Study Through Historical Sources” (Abdelhay EL Khili); “Critical Issues in the Early Modern History of Morocco: History and Jurisprudence between Moroccans and Iberian Occupiers” (Mohamed Cherif); “Managing Memory in the Context of Transitional Justice: A Comparative Study of Moroccan Experience” (Abdelaaziz Ettahiri); “Historical Knowledge between Pain Recollected and Societal Reconciliation Realised: the Moroccan Experience as a Model” (Mohammad Mahmoud Al Tanahy); “Religious, Customary and Civilian Institutions of Authority in M’zab, Algeria: Origins and Developments” (Sofia Hanezla); “Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth Century Muslim between Worlds” (Thaer Deeb, Natalie Zemon Davis); “Rif War Prisoners Through Spanish Documents” (Mohamed Abdel Moumen); “Popular Song and Literary Fiction: Sources for Writing History” (Abdelwahed Mokni); “The Joke as a Historical Source Do Funny Texts Contribute to Writing Arab History?” (Brahim Elkadiri Boutchich); “From Journalism to Civil Status: The Historian's Questions and the Path in Search for Sources” (Fatima Zohra Guechi); “A Reading of Historian Andrew Mango's” (محمد عثمانلي); “Mudar Badran's Memoirs: The Road from Damascusto the Madrid Conference” (Muhannad Mubaidin).

Published: 2021-01-01

Studies

  • Historical Writing: Epistemological Junctures

    Author: Adil ET-Tahiri
    7-30

    The study sheds light on the dialectical nature of the development of Western historiography from the moment history departed ways with theology, to be assimilated by philosophy and snatched in...

  • Ottoman Historians and State Reform A Study Through Historical Sources

    Author: Abdelhay EL Khili
    30-50

    Since the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire faced deep challenges due to crises affecting its most important political, military, administrative and financial institutions, with...

  • Critical Issues in the Early Modern History of Morocco: History and Jurisprudence between Moroccans and Iberian Occupiers

    Author: Mohamed Cherif
    50-71

    This study considers an example of a calamity, still-alive, that can illuminate a sensitive historical issue preoccupying Moroccan society and jurists, namely the legal status of Moroccan...

  • Managing Memory in the Context of Transitional Justice: A Comparative Study of Moroccan Experience

    Author: Abdelaaziz Ettahiri
    72-94

    The paper deals with memory management policies in transitional justice, based on the experience of the Moroccan Justice and Reconciliation Commission, compared with other models such as those...

  • Historical Knowledge between Pain Recollected and Societal Reconciliation Realised: the Moroccan Experience as a Model

    Author: Mohammad Mahmoud Al Tanahy
    95-110

    The paper deals with wounded memory and memory of pain, the memory of those who have suffered arrest, forced abduction and other forms of abuse, and the role these play in writing a more...

  • Religious, Customary and Civilian Institutions of Authority in M’zab, Algeria: Origins and Developments

    Author: Sofia Hanezla
    111-129

    M’zab is a region in central Algeria distinguished by its two principal cultural dimensions: the first is an affiliation with the Ibadi sect, and the second is Berber. The region’s historical...

Documents and Texts

  • Rif War Prisoners Through Spanish Documents

    Author: Mohamed Abdel Moumen
    168-181

    The Rif War, which raged in northern Morocco between 1921 and 1927, left many killed and wounded, with many prisoners taken by both sides. While Spanish researchers were concerned with the issue...

Translations

  • Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth Century Muslim between Worlds

    Authors: Thaer Deeb, Natalie Zemon Davis
    133-145

    This text is the preface to Natalie Zemon Davis' Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth Century Muslim between Worlds, published in numerous editions, some subtitled In Search of Leo Africanus. Stephen...

Book Reviews

  • A Reading of Historian Andrew Mango's

    Author: محمد عثمانلي
    149-155

    Book Title: Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey. Author: Andrew Mango. Publisher: Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism – Kalemah Project, Abu Dahbi. Date of...

  • Mudar Badran's Memoirs: The Road from Damascusto the Madrid Conference

    Author: Muhannad Mubaidin
    156-168

    In our hands a detailed diary notes about an extremely complex era in the history of Jordan and Arabs during the second half of the twentieth century; The time frame covered in Badran's diaries...

Ostour Symposium

  • Popular Song and Literary Fiction: Sources for Writing History

    Author: Abdelwahed Mokni
    186-215

    رسّخت المدرسة الوضعية قناعة متداولة إلى اليوم مفادها تقديس "المكتوب والموثّق"، وما سماه عبد الله العروي "التاريخ بالعهد". وعندما يتعلق الأمر بفضاء الكتابة التاريخية عند العرب أو في بلاد العرب...

  • The Joke as a Historical Source Do Funny Texts Contribute to Writing Arab History?

    Author: Brahim Elkadiri Boutchich
    216-240

    تتجدّد أسئلة المادة المصدرية وتتناسل كلّما اتسعت رقعة التحولات المعرفية والطفرات المنهجية، وكلّما تكاثفت العلاقات البينية اللاحمة بين التاريخ والعلوم المجاورة التي تمدّ المؤرخ بآليات جديدة...

  • From Journalism to Civil Status: The Historian's Questions and the Path in Search for Sources

    Author: Fatima Zohra Guechi
    241-257

    تتجه هذه الدراسة إلى مساءلة طبيعة بعض من المصادر التي عالجناها طوال مسارنا البحثي، باختيار الصحافة من جهة، والوثائق العدلية من جهة ثانية، بوصفها نماذج نستنطقها اعتمادًا على مجموعة من الأسئلة...