Najwa Al-Qattan
Biographic Data
| ID | 288449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Najwa Al-Qattan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Najwa |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Qattan |
| SIGNATURE | AL-QATTAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam. By Uriel I. Simonsohn
A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam. By Uriel I. Simonsohn. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 306. $79.95, £52
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War . By Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Journal Article A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz Get access A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. xviii plus 384 pp. $35.00). Najwa al-Qattan Najwa al-Qattan Loyola Marymount University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social Histo…
When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Memory and the Language of Food in Syria and Lebanon
This article explores the experience of the Great War in Syria and Lebanon with a specific focus on the famine that, combined with other wartime calamities, decimated the civilian population. Using food as its primary register, it looks at a wide range of largely untapped Syrian and Lebanese poems, zajal , plays, novels, memoirs, and histories written over the course of the 20th century, in order to illuminate the experiential dimensions of the c…
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt
In this study, Febe Armanios uses a series of snapshots of religious life—discourses, rituals, and festivals—in order to chart the history of the Ottoman Coptic community from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. As such, it is a study predicated on the centrality of the church in communal life and on the primacy of religious identity in the early modern period. Still, this history is rigorously contextualized; it is also deeply informed by t…
Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian
Book Review| November 01 2011 “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo, Semerdjian, Elyse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 247 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3173-6. Najwa al-Qattan Najwa al-Qattan Loyola Marymount University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's St…
The Sijills of Beirut al-Mahrusa
In the summer of 2001 I was granted access to the registers ( sijills ) of the Ottoman Muslim court ( al-mahkama al-shar c iyya ) of Beirut. These records, housed in the offices of a functioning court - the court attached to Imam c Ali's mosque on Tariq al-Jadida in Beirut, occupy two bookshelves, tightly squeezed behind hundreds of volumes of the court's current files - the vast majority of which nowadays pertain to family law. The closet-sized …
Litigants and Neighbors: The Communal Topography of Ottoman Damascus
In July of 1860 the intra-mural Christian quarter of Damascus was looted and burned and thousands of its inhabitants were massacred. This horrific event, which arrived on the heels of sectarian bloodshed in Ottoman Mount Lebanon a month earlier, was all the more significant in light of the massacre of Christians in the northern city of Aleppo in 1850 and the blood-libel accusations against the Damascene Jewish community in 1840.The events of July…
Dhimmīs in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination
This article will examine the legal status of dhimmīs (non-Muslims) as documented in the sijills of the shariʿa courts of Ottoman Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries. It will focus on two related aspects of dhimmī legal life: the extent of the judicial autonomy granted to non-Muslims and the kind of justice that dhimmīs obtained at the Muslim court
Amnon Cohen, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVIth Century), 2 vols., a Jewish Quarterly Review Supplement (Philadelphia: The Center fo…
Amnon Cohen, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVIth Century), 2 vols., a Jewish Quarterly Review Supplement (Philadelphia: The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1994). Vol. 1: Pp. 212. Vol. 2: Pp.375. - Volume 29 Issue 1
Dhimmīs in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination
This article will examine the legal status of dhimmīs (non-Muslims) as documented in the sijills of the shariʿa courts of Ottoman Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries. It will focus on two related aspects of dhimmī legal life: the extent of the judicial autonomy granted to non-Muslims and the kind of justice that dhimmīs obtained at the Muslim court
When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Memory and the Language of Food in Syria and Lebanon
This article explores the experience of the Great War in Syria and Lebanon with a specific focus on the famine that, combined with other wartime calamities, decimated the civilian population. Using food as its primary register, it looks at a wide range of largely untapped Syrian and Lebanese poems, zajal , plays, novels, memoirs, and histories written over the course of the 20th century, in order to illuminate the experiential dimensions of the c…
Litigants and Neighbors: The Communal Topography of Ottoman Damascus
In July of 1860 the intra-mural Christian quarter of Damascus was looted and burned and thousands of its inhabitants were massacred. This horrific event, which arrived on the heels of sectarian bloodshed in Ottoman Mount Lebanon a month earlier, was all the more significant in light of the massacre of Christians in the northern city of Aleppo in 1850 and the blood-libel accusations against the Damascene Jewish community in 1840.The events of July…
Amnon Cohen, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVIth Century), 2 vols., a Jewish Quarterly Review Supplement (Philadelphia: The Center fo…
Amnon Cohen, A World Within: Jewish Life as Reflected in Muslim Court Documents from the Sijill of Jerusalem (XVIth Century), 2 vols., a Jewish Quarterly Review Supplement (Philadelphia: The Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1994). Vol. 1: Pp. 212. Vol. 2: Pp.375. - Volume 29 Issue 1
Dhimmīs in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination
This article will examine the legal status of dhimmīs (non-Muslims) as documented in the sijills of the shariʿa courts of Ottoman Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries. It will focus on two related aspects of dhimmī legal life: the extent of the judicial autonomy granted to non-Muslims and the kind of justice that dhimmīs obtained at the Muslim court
Litigants and Neighbors: The Communal Topography of Ottoman Damascus
In July of 1860 the intra-mural Christian quarter of Damascus was looted and burned and thousands of its inhabitants were massacred. This horrific event, which arrived on the heels of sectarian bloodshed in Ottoman Mount Lebanon a month earlier, was all the more significant in light of the massacre of Christians in the northern city of Aleppo in 1850 and the blood-libel accusations against the Damascene Jewish community in 1840.The events of July…
The Sijills of Beirut al-Mahrusa
In the summer of 2001 I was granted access to the registers ( sijills ) of the Ottoman Muslim court ( al-mahkama al-shar c iyya ) of Beirut. These records, housed in the offices of a functioning court - the court attached to Imam c Ali's mosque on Tariq al-Jadida in Beirut, occupy two bookshelves, tightly squeezed behind hundreds of volumes of the court's current files - the vast majority of which nowadays pertain to family law. The closet-sized …
Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian
Book Review| November 01 2011 “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo, Semerdjian, Elyse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. 247 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3173-6. Najwa al-Qattan Najwa al-Qattan Loyola Marymount University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's St…
Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt
In this study, Febe Armanios uses a series of snapshots of religious life—discourses, rituals, and festivals—in order to chart the history of the Ottoman Coptic community from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. As such, it is a study predicated on the centrality of the church in communal life and on the primacy of religious identity in the early modern period. Still, this history is rigorously contextualized; it is also deeply informed by t…
When Mothers Ate Their Children: Wartime Memory and the Language of Food in Syria and Lebanon
This article explores the experience of the Great War in Syria and Lebanon with a specific focus on the famine that, combined with other wartime calamities, decimated the civilian population. Using food as its primary register, it looks at a wide range of largely untapped Syrian and Lebanese poems, zajal , plays, novels, memoirs, and histories written over the course of the 20th century, in order to illuminate the experiential dimensions of the c…
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War . By Leila Tarazi Fawaz
Journal Article A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz Get access A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War. By Leila Tarazi Fawaz (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. xviii plus 384 pp. $35.00). Najwa al-Qattan Najwa al-Qattan Loyola Marymount University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social Histo…
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History
Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam. By Uriel I. Simonsohn
A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam. By Uriel I. Simonsohn. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 306. $79.95, £52
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