Michael J Reimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Reimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Reimer |
| SIGNATURE | REIMER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7082-1300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Colonial Bridgehead
At the end of the eighteenth century, Alexandria was a small unimposing town; less than a century later, the city had become a busy hub of Mediterranean commerce and Egypt’s master link to the international economy. This is the first study to examine the modern transformation of the city, the surges of internal and international migration; the spa
The good Dr. Lippe” and Herzl in Basel, 1897
Dr. Karpel Lippe of Jassy, who gave the opening speech at the first Zionist Congress, has been largely ignored in histories of Zionism. This article introduces an English translation of his speech. Lippe helped to legitimate “Congress-Zionism” by connecting it to earlier forms of Jewish activism. His address exposes tensions arising from the Basel meeting, including Ottoman suspicion, relations with the Orthodox, and conflicts over organizational…
Ziad Fahmy. Ordinary Egyptians
Egyptian nationalism has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies, most of them locating its origins in intelligentsia-led debates, khedivial reforms, capitalist integration, European colonization, or some confection thereof. Ziad Fahmy does not dispute the significance of these impulses, and he highlights khedivial railway and post office systems as particularly important aids to national unification. But his book poses probing questions a…
Converting the Missionaries
Journal Article Converting the Missionaries Get access Sharkey Heather. American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xx + 318pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.50 (cloth). Michael Reimer Michael Reimer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 47–50, https://doi.o…
Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule
The Ottoman sultan was Egypt's titular sovereign until 1914, but in the late nineteenth century some historians of Egypt were already locating the terminus of Ottoman rule in the French invasion (1798) and the inauguration of Mehmet `Ali's government (1805). This periodization was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship…
The quest of the historical Jesus at the American University in Cairo
Because their dogmas concerning Jesus conflict, Muslims and Christians seldom collaborate in examining the actual records of Jesus’ and his followers’ lives, within and beyond the New Testament, in an atmosphere of respectful, critical discussion. The article summarizes the content of a course at the American University in Cairo that does just that, engaging Muslim and Christian students together in a nuanced analysis of the human, historical Jes…
Gospel in the Air
The King–Crane Commission at the Juncture of Politics and Historiography
The King–Crane Commission of 1919 was authorized by the Paris peace conference to conduct a ‘scientific investigation’ of conditions in the Middle East and to advise the conference as to the politi
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
Sacred Law in the Holy City
Becoming Urban
On 15 July 1935, a group of residents in the small port town of Aqaba sent a rough handwritten petition to the prime minister of Transjordan. Its clumsy script betrayed the humble origins of its signatories. Inscribing their destitution in virtually every clause, the petitioners wrote: Because we, the common people and notables of Aqaba and its bedouins ( ahālī wa-wujūh al- al - Aqaba wa - urbānuha ) are in a state of poverty, our town being very…
Modern Egypt
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt; Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr
A History of Jordan; Philip Robin
The Modern History of Jordan, Kamal S. Salibi
The Well-Protected Domains
Colonial Bridgehead
Introduction * The Geographical And Historical Inheritance Between Egypt and the Sea The Ottoman Town * Muhammad Alis City, 18071848 Engineering a Renaissance Restructuring Urban Administration A Demographic Profile at Mid-Century * Bridgehead of Colonialism, 18481882 The Boom Years Prosperity and Privilege Administration and Society after 1850 Mediterranean Magnet The Crisis of 1882 Conclusion
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt (1840s‐1870s) are unknown to all but a relatively small number of researchers. Following what appear to have been preliminary enumerations in some urban areas and villages, the first countrywide census was carried out in 1848, and was not repeated until 1882. In between those years there were new enumerations in Cairo and Alexandria, as well as in numerous villages. In format and data collected, th…
Contradiction and Consciousness in ʿAli Mubarak's Description of al-Azhar
Of the many talented men who entered government service in Egypt in the 19th century, none equaled in sheer energy and productivity ʿAli Mubarak Pasha (1823/4–1893). Engineer, officer, administrator, educator, and author, he was the outstanding Egyptian of his generation and the first native Muslim to head a government department in modern times. Yet his most enduring legacy are his writings, in particular his famous Khitat. A twenty-volume topog…
Behrens-A Bouseif, Doris. Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule
BEHRENS-A BOUSEIF, DORIS. Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture (16th & 17th Centuries). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. xvii + 274 pages. Appendix to p. 280. Bibl. to p. 300. Index to p. 311. 57 Plates, Map; NLG 145.00/US$83.00." published on 01 Jan 1996 by Brill
Ottoman Alexandria
Plusieurs specialistes ont recemment remis en question la these selon laquelle l'Empire Ottoman a connu un irremediable declin de son activite economique et de son pouvoir politique. A cette occasion l'auteur propose une etude sociale economique et urbaine de la ville d'Alexandrie au 18eme siecle, puis la compare a d'autres cites de l'Empire Ottoman
The Origins of Arab Nationalism ; Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih, and Reeva S. Simon, editors
Reorganizing Alexandria
The Political Economy of Contemporary Egypt
Byron Cannon, Politics of Law and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Salt Lake City
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Colonial Bridgehead
The great revolution was a technological revolution by which the West made its fortune, got the better of all the other living civilizations, and forcibly united them into a single society of literally worldwide range. The revolutionary Western invention was the substitution of the Ocean for the Steppe as the principal medium of world-communication. This use of the Ocean, first by sailing ships and then by steamships, enabled the West to unify th…
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt (1840s‐1870s) are unknown to all but a relatively small number of researchers. Following what appear to have been preliminary enumerations in some urban areas and villages, the first countrywide census was carried out in 1848, and was not repeated until 1882. In between those years there were new enumerations in Cairo and Alexandria, as well as in numerous villages. In format and data collected, th…
Colonial Bridgehead
Introduction * The Geographical And Historical Inheritance Between Egypt and the Sea The Ottoman Town * Muhammad Alis City, 18071848 Engineering a Renaissance Restructuring Urban Administration A Demographic Profile at Mid-Century * Bridgehead of Colonialism, 18481882 The Boom Years Prosperity and Privilege Administration and Society after 1850 Mediterranean Magnet The Crisis of 1882 Conclusion
Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule
The Ottoman sultan was Egypt's titular sovereign until 1914, but in the late nineteenth century some historians of Egypt were already locating the terminus of Ottoman rule in the French invasion (1798) and the inauguration of Mehmet `Ali's government (1805). This periodization was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship…
Ottoman Alexandria
Plusieurs specialistes ont recemment remis en question la these selon laquelle l'Empire Ottoman a connu un irremediable declin de son activite economique et de son pouvoir politique. A cette occasion l'auteur propose une etude sociale economique et urbaine de la ville d'Alexandrie au 18eme siecle, puis la compare a d'autres cites de l'Empire Ottoman
Contradiction and Consciousness in ʿAli Mubarak's Description of al-Azhar
Of the many talented men who entered government service in Egypt in the 19th century, none equaled in sheer energy and productivity ʿAli Mubarak Pasha (1823/4–1893). Engineer, officer, administrator, educator, and author, he was the outstanding Egyptian of his generation and the first native Muslim to head a government department in modern times. Yet his most enduring legacy are his writings, in particular his famous Khitat. A twenty-volume topog…
Colonial Bridgehead
At the end of the eighteenth century, Alexandria was a small unimposing town; less than a century later, the city had become a busy hub of Mediterranean commerce and Egypt’s master link to the international economy. This is the first study to examine the modern transformation of the city, the surges of internal and international migration; the spa
The good Dr. Lippe” and Herzl in Basel, 1897
Dr. Karpel Lippe of Jassy, who gave the opening speech at the first Zionist Congress, has been largely ignored in histories of Zionism. This article introduces an English translation of his speech. Lippe helped to legitimate “Congress-Zionism” by connecting it to earlier forms of Jewish activism. His address exposes tensions arising from the Basel meeting, including Ottoman suspicion, relations with the Orthodox, and conflicts over organizational…
Becoming Urban
On 15 July 1935, a group of residents in the small port town of Aqaba sent a rough handwritten petition to the prime minister of Transjordan. Its clumsy script betrayed the humble origins of its signatories. Inscribing their destitution in virtually every clause, the petitioners wrote: Because we, the common people and notables of Aqaba and its bedouins ( ahālī wa-wujūh al- al - Aqaba wa - urbānuha ) are in a state of poverty, our town being very…
Reorganizing Alexandria
Colonial Bridgehead
The great revolution was a technological revolution by which the West made its fortune, got the better of all the other living civilizations, and forcibly united them into a single society of literally worldwide range. The revolutionary Western invention was the substitution of the Ocean for the Steppe as the principal medium of world-communication. This use of the Ocean, first by sailing ships and then by steamships, enabled the West to unify th…
Arab History and the Nation-State
Arab History and the Nation-State: A Study in Modern Arab Historiography, 1820-1980, by Youssef M. Choueiri. xix+238 pages, appendices, glossary, list of dynasties, bibliography, index. Routledge, London and New York1989. $59.95. - Volume 24 Issue 2
Byron Cannon, Politics of Law and the Courts in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Salt Lake City
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Political Economy of Contemporary Egypt
The Origins of Arab Nationalism ; Rashid Khalidi, Lisa Anderson, Muhammad Muslih, and Reeva S. Simon, editors
Reorganizing Alexandria
Ottoman Alexandria
Plusieurs specialistes ont recemment remis en question la these selon laquelle l'Empire Ottoman a connu un irremediable declin de son activite economique et de son pouvoir politique. A cette occasion l'auteur propose une etude sociale economique et urbaine de la ville d'Alexandrie au 18eme siecle, puis la compare a d'autres cites de l'Empire Ottoman
Behrens-A Bouseif, Doris. Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule
BEHRENS-A BOUSEIF, DORIS. Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf and Architecture (16th & 17th Centuries). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. xvii + 274 pages. Appendix to p. 280. Bibl. to p. 300. Index to p. 311. 57 Plates, Map; NLG 145.00/US$83.00." published on 01 Jan 1996 by Brill
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt
The census registers of nineteenth‐century Egypt (1840s‐1870s) are unknown to all but a relatively small number of researchers. Following what appear to have been preliminary enumerations in some urban areas and villages, the first countrywide census was carried out in 1848, and was not repeated until 1882. In between those years there were new enumerations in Cairo and Alexandria, as well as in numerous villages. In format and data collected, th…
Contradiction and Consciousness in ʿAli Mubarak's Description of al-Azhar
Of the many talented men who entered government service in Egypt in the 19th century, none equaled in sheer energy and productivity ʿAli Mubarak Pasha (1823/4–1893). Engineer, officer, administrator, educator, and author, he was the outstanding Egyptian of his generation and the first native Muslim to head a government department in modern times. Yet his most enduring legacy are his writings, in particular his famous Khitat. A twenty-volume topog…
Colonial Bridgehead
Introduction * The Geographical And Historical Inheritance Between Egypt and the Sea The Ottoman Town * Muhammad Alis City, 18071848 Engineering a Renaissance Restructuring Urban Administration A Demographic Profile at Mid-Century * Bridgehead of Colonialism, 18481882 The Boom Years Prosperity and Privilege Administration and Society after 1850 Mediterranean Magnet The Crisis of 1882 Conclusion
The Modern History of Jordan, Kamal S. Salibi
The Well-Protected Domains
Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt; Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr
A History of Jordan; Philip Robin
Becoming Urban
On 15 July 1935, a group of residents in the small port town of Aqaba sent a rough handwritten petition to the prime minister of Transjordan. Its clumsy script betrayed the humble origins of its signatories. Inscribing their destitution in virtually every clause, the petitioners wrote: Because we, the common people and notables of Aqaba and its bedouins ( ahālī wa-wujūh al- al - Aqaba wa - urbānuha ) are in a state of poverty, our town being very…
Modern Egypt
The King–Crane Commission at the Juncture of Politics and Historiography
The King–Crane Commission of 1919 was authorized by the Paris peace conference to conduct a ‘scientific investigation’ of conditions in the Middle East and to advise the conference as to the politi
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
Sacred Law in the Holy City
Gospel in the Air
The quest of the historical Jesus at the American University in Cairo
Because their dogmas concerning Jesus conflict, Muslims and Christians seldom collaborate in examining the actual records of Jesus’ and his followers’ lives, within and beyond the New Testament, in an atmosphere of respectful, critical discussion. The article summarizes the content of a course at the American University in Cairo that does just that, engaging Muslim and Christian students together in a nuanced analysis of the human, historical Jes…
Converting the Missionaries
Journal Article Converting the Missionaries Get access Sharkey Heather. American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xx + 318pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $39.50 (cloth). Michael Reimer Michael Reimer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 47–50, https://doi.o…
Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule
The Ottoman sultan was Egypt's titular sovereign until 1914, but in the late nineteenth century some historians of Egypt were already locating the terminus of Ottoman rule in the French invasion (1798) and the inauguration of Mehmet `Ali's government (1805). This periodization was later canonized in Egyptian academia, so that Egypt's Ottoman history was defined as beginning in 1517 and ending in 1798. However, the vagaries of Egypt's relationship…
Ziad Fahmy. Ordinary Egyptians
Egyptian nationalism has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies, most of them locating its origins in intelligentsia-led debates, khedivial reforms, capitalist integration, European colonization, or some confection thereof. Ziad Fahmy does not dispute the significance of these impulses, and he highlights khedivial railway and post office systems as particularly important aids to national unification. But his book poses probing questions a…
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