James A Reilly
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Reilly |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Reilly |
| SIGNATURE | REILLY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ottomans in Syria: “Turkish Colonialism”, or Something Else
Syrien unter der Herrschaft der Osmanen bietet Anlass, das Konzept von Kolonialismus zu hinterfragen. Über vier Jahrhunderte hinweg (1516–1918) herrschte das Osmanische Reich über die vorwiegend arabischsprachige Bevölkerung des syrischen Gebiets. Aufgrund der Ansiedlung neuer Bevölkerungsgruppen, der ökonomischen Ausbeutung durch Beamte und der Kooptation von „kriegerischen“ oder „tribalen“ Gemeinschaften in die imperiale Ordnung hat die osmanis…
Fragile Nation, Shattered Land: The Modern History of Syria
The Syrian state is less than 100 years old, born from the wreckage of World War I. Today it stands in ruins, shattered by brutal civil war. How did this happen? How did the lands that are today Syria survive incorporation with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and the trials and vicissitudes of the Sultan's rule for four centuries, only to collapse into civil war in recent years? Arguably it was the Ottoman period that laid the fragile…
The Ottoman Cities of Lebanon: Historical Legacy and Identity in the Modern Middle East
Whether defined as essentially ‘Turkish’, and therefore alien to the Lebanese experience, or remembered in its final years as a tyrannical and brutal dictatorship, the period has not been thought of fondly in most Lebanese historiography. In a far-reaching and much-needed analysis of this complex legacy, James A. Reilly looks at Arabic-language history writing emanating from Lebanon in the post-1975 period, focusing on the three main Ottoman admi…
Hem Evrensel Hem Mahalli: 18. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Humus’undan Muhammed el-Mekkî’nin İzlenimleri
Between 1688 and 1722 a resident of the unheralded Syrian provincial town of Homs recorded his impressions of life in the town and its surroundings. Muhammad al-Makki’s account offers glimpses of the worldview of an Ottoman subject who shared the Ottoman Empire’s politically dominant religion (Islam) yet who was firmly grounded in his provincial environment. This rare document from one of Syria’s smaller towns illustrates tension between a pre-mo…
The Ottoman Empire from Present to Past: Memory and Ideology in Turkey and the Arab World
Research Article| May 01 2011 The Ottoman Empire from Present to Past: Memory and Ideology in Turkey and the Arab World Amy Mills; Amy Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James A. Reilly; James A. Reilly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Philliou Christine Philliou Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East…
Ottoman Beirut: Crisis, History, and Sectarian Memory
History writing is a powerful tool in the construction of collective memory. Typically in postcolonial states, history is linked to a national project. Methods and tropes of national history writing aim to create or reinforce a sense of shared identity rooted in past experience. Particular historical actors are valorized and emphasized, as they become protagonists of the national narrative. Often the outlines of the present-day state are anachron…
E Ugene L. R Ogan , Frontiers of the State in the LateOttoman Empire , Cambridge Middle East Studies (Cambridge: (Cambridge University Press,1999). Pp. 289
Eugene Rogan's book on Transjordan in the later Ottoman period offers a narrative and an analysis that will interest Middle East historians in various fields. Using central Ottoman archives, local Jordanian records and memoirs and European accounts, Rogan paints an intriguing and nuanced picture of a frontier society's experience of incorporation into the modern state. The book frames its material in a way that allows historians in other fields t…
An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1660s . Dror Zeʾevi
Past and present in local histories of the Ottoman period from Syria and Lebanon
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present. What animates such appeals is not only disagreement about what happened in the past and what the past was, but uncertainty about whether the past really is past, over and concluded, or whether it continues, albeit in different forms, perhaps. This problem animates all sorts of discussions about influence, about blame and judgment, about present actualitie…
State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834 , by Dina Rizk Khoury
The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century . Abraham Marcus
Inter‐confessional relations in nineteenth‐century Syria: Damascus, Homs and Hama compared
This article examines relations between Muslims and Christians in Syria during the later Ottoman period in light of social science literature on ethnicity and ethnic conflict. It argues that the social science literature illuminates the historiography of this question by bringing to the fore historians’ underlying assumptions about religion and ethnicity. By comparing three Syrian towns with contrasting histories of inter‐communal relations, the …
Damascus Merchants and Trade in the Transition to Capitalism
The article examines how merchants of Damascus responded to and took advantage of Syria’s integration into the world economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that merchants used the transition to capitalism that accompanies integration to bolster their economic position and extend their markets. By 1914 some merchants formed the nucleus of a manufacturing bourgeoisie. The Damascus case is relevant to the ongoing discussi…
Property, Status, and Class in Ottoman Damascus: Case Studies from the Nineteenth Century
Relying mainly on data from sharica law-court registers, the article examines the relationship between status-group affiliation and property ownership and interests in four branches of the Damascus economy in the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century. These branches are grain wholesaling, primary food processing, services, and spinning and weaving of textiles. The data suggest only a tenuous relationship between status-group affiliati…
Properties Around Damascus in the Nineteenth Century
HE CITY of Damascus is surrounded by a perennially irrigated region known as the Giuta, watered by the Barada river and its branches. Historically the Guita has been well known for the abundance and variety of its fruits and vegetables, contributing to Damascus's reputation as a verdant paradise. The Guita's boundaries are well defined to the north, west and south by hills and mountains, but no natural barrier separates it from the Syrian desert …
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy
Theoretical Approaches: 1. Late-eighteenth - early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism? Peter Gran 2. Agenda for Ottoman history Huri Islamoglu and Caglar Keyder 3. State and economy in the Ottoman Empire Ilkay Sunar 4. The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein, Hale Decdeli and Resat Kasaba Part II. State and Agriculture: 5. State and peasants in the Ottoman Empire: a study…
Status Groups And Propertyholding In The Damascus Hinterland, 1828–1880
Questions of land tenure and land ownership are central to the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Middle East. Most people lived in the countryside, where they grew foodstuffs that fed themselves as well as the town populations. Moreover, the rural economy was the main source of economic surplus appropriated by the urban ruling classes
Jerusalem in the Eyes of Chroniclers: Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City. . Yehoshua Ben-Arieh. ; Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from th…
Jerusalem in the Eyes of Chroniclers: Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City, by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh/Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the …
Sharī‘a Court Registers and Land Tenure around Nineteenth-Century Damascus
The importance of sharī‘a law-court registers as sources for the social and economic history of Syria/Bilād al-Shām in the Ottoman period has been recognized for some time. A number of studies based on them have appeared, but the registers are so vast that scholars have in fact barely begun to investigate them. The Historical Documents Center (Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhīya) in Damascus holds over one thousand volumes. Additional originals exist…
Jerusalem Under the Ottomans: Ottoman Rule in Jerusalem, 1890–1914, by Haim Gerber
Jerusalem Under the Ottomans: Ottoman Rule in Jerusalem, 1890-1914. . Haim Gerber
"Sidon, 'Ain al-Hilweh and the Villages are Only the Beginning"
Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
Ottoman Beirut: Crisis, History, and Sectarian Memory
History writing is a powerful tool in the construction of collective memory. Typically in postcolonial states, history is linked to a national project. Methods and tropes of national history writing aim to create or reinforce a sense of shared identity rooted in past experience. Particular historical actors are valorized and emphasized, as they become protagonists of the national narrative. Often the outlines of the present-day state are anachron…
Inter‐confessional relations in nineteenth‐century Syria: Damascus, Homs and Hama compared
This article examines relations between Muslims and Christians in Syria during the later Ottoman period in light of social science literature on ethnicity and ethnic conflict. It argues that the social science literature illuminates the historiography of this question by bringing to the fore historians’ underlying assumptions about religion and ethnicity. By comparing three Syrian towns with contrasting histories of inter‐communal relations, the …
The Ottoman Empire from Present to Past: Memory and Ideology in Turkey and the Arab World
Research Article| May 01 2011 The Ottoman Empire from Present to Past: Memory and Ideology in Turkey and the Arab World Amy Mills; Amy Mills Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James A. Reilly; James A. Reilly Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christine Philliou Christine Philliou Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East…
Status Groups And Propertyholding In The Damascus Hinterland, 1828–1880
Questions of land tenure and land ownership are central to the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Middle East. Most people lived in the countryside, where they grew foodstuffs that fed themselves as well as the town populations. Moreover, the rural economy was the main source of economic surplus appropriated by the urban ruling classes
Sharī‘a Court Registers and Land Tenure around Nineteenth-Century Damascus
The importance of sharī‘a law-court registers as sources for the social and economic history of Syria/Bilād al-Shām in the Ottoman period has been recognized for some time. A number of studies based on them have appeared, but the registers are so vast that scholars have in fact barely begun to investigate them. The Historical Documents Center (Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhīya) in Damascus holds over one thousand volumes. Additional originals exist…
Western Media and Islam: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. . Edward W. Said
Western Media and Islam: Edward W. Said. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
(1981). WESTERN MEDIA AND ISLAM: Edward W. Said. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 11, 10th Anniversary Issue, pp. 161-164
Western Media and Islam: Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. . Edward W. Said
Western Media and Islam: Edward W. Said. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
(1981). WESTERN MEDIA AND ISLAM: Edward W. Said. Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 11, 10th Anniversary Issue, pp. 161-164
Israel in Lebanon, 1975-82
Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Arab World's Legacy: Essays
These essays, written over a period of thirty years, crystallise Professor Issawi's insights on Arab civilisation. They cover a wide variety of subjects: cultural and demographic history, economics, and politics -- from the seventh century to the present. About half the book is devoted to the formative period of classical Islamic civilisation; the other half is devoted to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These views give an idea of the siz…
Israelis and Palestinians: Dialogue toward a Solution: Israel and the Palestinians. . Uri Davis, Andrew Mack, Nira Yuval-Davis. ; Towards a Socialist Republic of Palestine. . Fouzi el-Asmar, Uri Davis…
Israelis and Palestinians: Dialogue Toward A Solution: Uri Davis, Andrew Mack, and Nira Yuval-Davis, eds. Israel and the Palestinians /Fouzi el-Asmar, Uri Davis, and Naim Khadr, eds. Towards a Sociali…
editors of these three books are Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs who share anti-Zionist, socialist political views. They hope these works will stimulate discussions within and between the Israeli left and the Palestinian resistance movement. ultimate purpose of such discussions is to create a framework for a joint Jewish and Arab struggle against Zionism. Israel and the Palestinians gives an overview of the key issues confronting participants …
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
Delusion and the Rule by Force: Abandonment of Illusions: Zionist Political Attitudes toward Palestinian Arab Nationalism, 1936-1939. . Yehoyada Haim
Delusion and the Rule by Force: Abandonment of Illusions: Zionist Political Attitudes toward Palestinian Arab Nationalism, 1936-1939 , Yehoyada Haim
(1984). Delusion and the Rule by Force: Abandonment of Illusions: Zionist Political Attitudes toward Palestinian Arab Nationalism, 1936-1939, Yehoyada Haim. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 144-146
"Sidon, 'Ain al-Hilweh and the Villages are Only the Beginning"
Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus, 1860-1920
Jerusalem Under the Ottomans: Ottoman Rule in Jerusalem, 1890–1914, by Haim Gerber
Jerusalem Under the Ottomans: Ottoman Rule in Jerusalem, 1890-1914. . Haim Gerber
Jerusalem in the Eyes of Chroniclers: Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City. . Yehoshua Ben-Arieh. ; Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from th…
Jerusalem in the Eyes of Chroniclers: Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City, by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh/Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the …
Sharī‘a Court Registers and Land Tenure around Nineteenth-Century Damascus
The importance of sharī‘a law-court registers as sources for the social and economic history of Syria/Bilād al-Shām in the Ottoman period has been recognized for some time. A number of studies based on them have appeared, but the registers are so vast that scholars have in fact barely begun to investigate them. The Historical Documents Center (Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhīya) in Damascus holds over one thousand volumes. Additional originals exist…
The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy
Theoretical Approaches: 1. Late-eighteenth - early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism? Peter Gran 2. Agenda for Ottoman history Huri Islamoglu and Caglar Keyder 3. State and economy in the Ottoman Empire Ilkay Sunar 4. The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein, Hale Decdeli and Resat Kasaba Part II. State and Agriculture: 5. State and peasants in the Ottoman Empire: a study…
Status Groups And Propertyholding In The Damascus Hinterland, 1828–1880
Questions of land tenure and land ownership are central to the socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Middle East. Most people lived in the countryside, where they grew foodstuffs that fed themselves as well as the town populations. Moreover, the rural economy was the main source of economic surplus appropriated by the urban ruling classes
Properties Around Damascus in the Nineteenth Century
HE CITY of Damascus is surrounded by a perennially irrigated region known as the Giuta, watered by the Barada river and its branches. Historically the Guita has been well known for the abundance and variety of its fruits and vegetables, contributing to Damascus's reputation as a verdant paradise. The Guita's boundaries are well defined to the north, west and south by hills and mountains, but no natural barrier separates it from the Syrian desert …
Damascus Merchants and Trade in the Transition to Capitalism
The article examines how merchants of Damascus responded to and took advantage of Syria’s integration into the world economy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that merchants used the transition to capitalism that accompanies integration to bolster their economic position and extend their markets. By 1914 some merchants formed the nucleus of a manufacturing bourgeoisie. The Damascus case is relevant to the ongoing discussi…
Property, Status, and Class in Ottoman Damascus: Case Studies from the Nineteenth Century
Relying mainly on data from sharica law-court registers, the article examines the relationship between status-group affiliation and property ownership and interests in four branches of the Damascus economy in the middle and latter parts of the nineteenth century. These branches are grain wholesaling, primary food processing, services, and spinning and weaving of textiles. The data suggest only a tenuous relationship between status-group affiliati…
Inter‐confessional relations in nineteenth‐century Syria: Damascus, Homs and Hama compared
This article examines relations between Muslims and Christians in Syria during the later Ottoman period in light of social science literature on ethnicity and ethnic conflict. It argues that the social science literature illuminates the historiography of this question by bringing to the fore historians’ underlying assumptions about religion and ethnicity. By comparing three Syrian towns with contrasting histories of inter‐communal relations, the …
The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century . Abraham Marcus
State and Provincial Society in the Ottoman Empire: Mosul, 1540-1834 , by Dina Rizk Khoury
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