Vol. 2022 No. 015 (2022): Issue 015

غلاف العدد 15 من دورية أسطور

Issue 15 of Ostour for Historical Studies (2022) includes the following studies and articles: “The Path to Renewal: The French Annales School from Emergence to Collapse (2)” (ناصر الدين سعيدوني); “The Emergence and Development of Ottoman Historical Writing up until the End of the Fifteenth Century” (Anis A. Mahmoud); “Epidemics and Pandemics in the Ancient Near East - From Ancient Times until the Emmaus Plague: A Study of Their Impacts on Human History” (Mohammed Maraqten); “Water and the Sacred in North Africa during the Roman Era” (Samir Ait Oumghar); “The Umayyads: Forms of Forgetting and Places of Memory” (Moez Omri); “The Twelve Articles: A Sketch of the Relationship between Religion and Law in Lutheran Germany” (Talal Aljassar); “Islam and the Early Founders of the English Colonies in North America 1607-1789” (Nagham Talib); “Universal History (2)” (Susan Buck-Morss, Ali Hakim Saleh); “Translation and Study of Four Letters in the Ottoman Language on the French Siege of the Algerian Coast in 1827” (Kheireddine Saidi); “Historical Writing in Egypt” (Abderrahim Benhadda); “The Efforts of Egyptian Historians in Studying the History of the Crusades: Processes and Developments” (Hatem El-Tahay); “The Academic School and the Development of Historical Writing in Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century” (Ahmed El Shelek); “Unknown, Forgotten, Neglected: Observations on the Historiography of Modern Egyptian Art in the Twentieth Century” (Yasser Mongy); “The Crisis of Historical Writing in 1960s Thought: A Reading in the Writings of Raouf Abbas” (Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim); “Book review of Introducing and Briefing Some of What Needs to Be Done on the Hijaz Road” (Mustapha el Ghachi); “The Epistemological and Dialectical Foundations for Re-reading History in Morocco Review of the book Historical Thought and Learning History” (Abdelaaziz Ettahiri); “Book review of Histoire Du Monde Au XIXe Siècle” (محمد غاشي).

Published: 2022-01-01

Studies

  • The Path to Renewal: The French Annales School from Emergence to Collapse (2)

    Author: ناصر الدين سعيدوني
    7-35

    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....

  • The Emergence and Development of Ottoman Historical Writing up until the End of the Fifteenth Century

    Author: Anis A. Mahmoud
    70-37

    The research deals with the development of the process of codifying Ottoman history from its inception until the late fifteenth century, and provides a survey of the most important Ottoman...

  • Epidemics and Pandemics in the Ancient Near East - From Ancient Times until the Emmaus Plague: A Study of Their Impacts on Human History

    Author: Mohammed Maraqten
    72-99

    This study documents the history of epidemics in the ancient Near East, giving some examples from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. It relies on the cuneiform scripts, the...

  • Water and the Sacred in North Africa during the Roman Era

    Author: Samir Ait Oumghar
    100-128

    The people of North Africa have held water sacred in all its forms since the beginning of antiquity, believing that it embodies several deities capable of protecting fresh water and ensuring its...

  • The Umayyads: Forms of Forgetting and Places of Memory

    Author: Moez Omri
    129-147

    The importance of this study lies in researching the possibility of re-reading the Umayyad history, in light of the new methodological approaches presented by the historical study of the...

  • The Twelve Articles: A Sketch of the Relationship between Religion and Law in Lutheran Germany

    Author: Talal Aljassar
    148-167

    In the sixteenth century, a revolution was ignited in Germany that lasted several years, dubbed the Great Peasant Revolt. An initial plan for the peasants and the ruling authority to enter...

  • Islam and the Early Founders of the English Colonies in North America 1607-1789

    Author: Nagham Talib
    168-187

    This Study Reviews The Most Prominent Sources and Theories That Contributed to the Formation and Formulation of The American Experience, But Through the Influence of Those Sources in Themselves...

Documents and Texts

  • Translation and Study of Four Letters in the Ottoman Language on the French Siege of the Algerian Coast in 1827

    Author: Kheireddine Saidi
    245-266

    The siege by French forces of Algiers is one of the important stages in the history of Algeria and the entire region. Its complexities and repercussions, by virtue of geography and history,...

Translations

  • Universal History (2)

    Authors: Susan Buck-Morss, Ali Hakim Saleh
    191-213

    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 Introducing and Briefing Some of What Needs to Be Done on the Hijaz Road

    Author: Mustapha el Ghachi
    217-222

    المؤلف: أبو سالم العياشي. عنوان الكتاب: التعريف والإيجاز ببعض ما تدعو الضرورة إليه في طريق الحجاز. تحقيق: حسن حافظي علوي. الناشر: الرباط: دار أبي رقراق للطباعة والنشر. سنة النشر: 2021. عدد...

  • The Epistemological and Dialectical Foundations for Re-reading History in Morocco Review of the book Historical Thought and Learning History

    Author: Abdelaaziz Ettahiri
    223-233

    The book seeks to address the gap between general historical thought and the Moroccan school of historical thought.

  • Book review of Histoire Du Monde Au XIXe Siècle

    Author: محمد غاشي
    234-241

    عنوان الكتاب: تاريخ العالم في القرن التاسع عشر. عنوان الكتاب في لغته: Histoire Du Monde Au XIXe Siècle. إشراف: بيير سينغارافايلو وسيلفان فينير Pierre Singaravélou & Sylvain Venayre. ترجمة:...

Ostour Symposium

  • Historical Writing in Egypt

    Author: Abderrahim Benhadda
    269-273

    أخذت مجلة أسطور للدراسات التاريخية على عاتقها القيام بجولة في البحث التاريخي في العالم العربي عبر تنظيم سلسلة من الندوات تهمّ الكتابة التاريخية في البلاد العربية. ليس الغرض من هذه السلسلة عرض...

  • The Efforts of Egyptian Historians in Studying the History of the Crusades: Processes and Developments

    Author: Hatem El-Tahay
    274-283

    تُعدُّ الحركة الصليبية التي خرجت من الغرب الأوروبي نحو الشرق الإسلامي من أهم مظاهر العلاقات بين العالمَين الإسلامي والأوروبي في العصور الوسطى، وأحد الإرهاصات المبكرة لحركة الاستعمار الأوروبي في...

  • The Academic School and the Development of Historical Writing in Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

    Author: Ahmed El Shelek
    284-298

    من الضروري أن نوضح، في البداية، أنّ الكتابة التاريخية في مصر الحديثة والمعاصرة قد عرفت أشكالًا وطرائق وأساليبَ مختلفة من الكتابة، بدءًا من مرحلتها التقليدية حتى مرحلة الكتابة العلمية، وشهدت...

  • Unknown, Forgotten, Neglected: Observations on the Historiography of Modern Egyptian Art in the Twentieth Century

    Author: Yasser Mongy
    299-318

    رغم كثرة الدراسات والمقالات التي أرَّخَت لوقائع نشأة الفن المصري الحديث، ومحطات نموه، وملامح تحولاته وتطوره، التي تميزت بتفاوتها على مستويات التدقيق البحثي، فإن ثمة ثِقة مُفرطة يمكن ملاحظتها في...

  • The Crisis of Historical Writing in 1960s Thought: A Reading in the Writings of Raouf Abbas

    Author: Nasser Ahmed Ibrahim
    319-329

    This study interrogates the critical discourse of Raouf Abbas. As one of the polarizing forces in the generation of Arab historians of the 1960s concerned with writing and its critical...