Beshara Doumani
Biographic Data
| ID | 329707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beshara Doumani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beshara |
| FAMILY NAME | Doumani |
| SIGNATURE | DOUMANI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Tribute to Halim Barakat
Notes1 Halim Barakat, The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 6.2 Barakat, The Arab World, xi.3 Halim Barakat, Lebanon in Strife: Student Preludes to the Civil War (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977), xii.4 “A Tribute to Dr. Halim Barakat,” Jerusalem Fund, April 10, 2017, https://thejerusalemfund.org/2017/04/tribute-dr-halim-barakat/.5 Halim Barakat, Ta’ir al-hawm (Casablanca: Dar Toubka…
And Its Shadows
Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, “The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life,” examines the emergence of 1948 as the primary focus of Palestinian commemorative practices and guiding star of future political possibilities, as well as the promise and limitations of the settler-co…
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660-1860), Beshara B. Doumani argues that there is no such thing as the Muslim or Arab family type that is so central to Orientalist, nationalist, and Islamist narratives. Rather, one finds dramatic regional differences, even within the same cultural zo…
Out of the Frame
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel." Journal of Palestine Studies, 42(3), pp. 111–112 Additional informationNotes on contributorsBeshara DoumaniBeshara Doumani is a professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (University of California Press, 1995)
Archiving Palestine and the Palestinians
A Tribute Long Overdue
Palestine Versus the Palestinians? The Iron Laws and Ironies of a People Denied
An iron law of the conflict over Palestine has been the refusal by the Zionist movement and its backers, first Great Britain and then the United States, to make room for the existence of Palestinians as a political community. This non-recognition is rooted in historical forces that predate the existence of the Zionist movement and the Palestinians as a people. Consequently, there is a tension between identity and territory, with obvious repercuss…
Le contrat salam et les relations ville-campagne dans la Palestine ottomane
Dans les hautes terres de la Palestine ottomane, le contrat salam fut le principal mécanisme utilisé pour garantir l'offre future de récoltes pour la consommation, l'industrie ou le commerce - trois activités clefs sans lesquelles aucune ville ne pouvait subsister dans une société basée sur l'agriculture. L'une des raisons pour laquelle les contrats salam étaient populaires est que, en milieu rural, la plupart des autres formes d'investissement e…
S Cenes From D Aily L Ife
The picture of everyday life in besieged Nablus that emerges from this essay is one of simultaneous fragmentation and social cohesion: fragmentation in the class and generational tensions, factional power struggles, estrangement between townsmen and camp dwellers; social cohesion in the enduring family and solidarity networks, well-organized grassroots committees, and the unifying impact of Israeli military pressures. While shedding light on the …
Family History in the Middle East
Philipp
Rediscovering Palestine
Endowing Family
Unlike in Europe and the United States, where the writing of family history has become a growth industry over the past thirty years, only recently have historians of Greater Syria during the Ottoman period (1516–1917) started investigating this topic.Also referred to as the Levant, or Bilad al-Sham, Greater Syria for the purposes of this article is today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine-Israel. As of yet, there is not a single published mon…
Rediscovering Palestine
Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by investigating the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting appropriated and gave meaning to the larger forces of Ottoman rule and Euro…
The Art of Creative Survival
The Art of Creative Survival
After Oslo
The Political Economy of Population Counts in Ottoman Palestine
New evidence, culled from the Nablus advisory council ( majlis al-shūrā ) records and based on an actual Ottoman population count taken in December 1849, indicates that the city's population at that time numbered at least 20,000 people, more than twice the frequently cited figure of 8,000–9,000. This revision raises serious doubts about the veracity of hitherto commonly accepted population figures, most of them based on contemporary estimates by …
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
Palestine in Transformation
Palestine in Transformation
The Dynamics of Commerce
The Dynamics of Commerce
Building a State within a State
Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660-1860), Beshara B. Doumani argues that there is no such thing as the Muslim or Arab family type that is so central to Orientalist, nationalist, and Islamist narratives. Rather, one finds dramatic regional differences, even within the same cultural zo…
Rediscovering Palestine
Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by investigating the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting appropriated and gave meaning to the larger forces of Ottoman rule and Euro…
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
S Cenes From D Aily L Ife
The picture of everyday life in besieged Nablus that emerges from this essay is one of simultaneous fragmentation and social cohesion: fragmentation in the class and generational tensions, factional power struggles, estrangement between townsmen and camp dwellers; social cohesion in the enduring family and solidarity networks, well-organized grassroots committees, and the unifying impact of Israeli military pressures. While shedding light on the …
Palestine Versus the Palestinians? The Iron Laws and Ironies of a People Denied
An iron law of the conflict over Palestine has been the refusal by the Zionist movement and its backers, first Great Britain and then the United States, to make room for the existence of Palestinians as a political community. This non-recognition is rooted in historical forces that predate the existence of the Zionist movement and the Palestinians as a people. Consequently, there is a tension between identity and territory, with obvious repercuss…
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
Endowing Family
Unlike in Europe and the United States, where the writing of family history has become a growth industry over the past thirty years, only recently have historians of Greater Syria during the Ottoman period (1516–1917) started investigating this topic.Also referred to as the Levant, or Bilad al-Sham, Greater Syria for the purposes of this article is today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine-Israel. As of yet, there is not a single published mon…
Palestine in Transformation
And Its Shadows
Seventy years after the Nakba, what does it mean to commemorate 1948? This introduction to three articles drawn from the 2018 New Directions in Palestinian Studies workshop at Brown University, “The Shadow Years: Material Histories of Everyday Life,” examines the emergence of 1948 as the primary focus of Palestinian commemorative practices and guiding star of future political possibilities, as well as the promise and limitations of the settler-co…
A Tribute Long Overdue
Le contrat salam et les relations ville-campagne dans la Palestine ottomane
Dans les hautes terres de la Palestine ottomane, le contrat salam fut le principal mécanisme utilisé pour garantir l'offre future de récoltes pour la consommation, l'industrie ou le commerce - trois activités clefs sans lesquelles aucune ville ne pouvait subsister dans une société basée sur l'agriculture. L'une des raisons pour laquelle les contrats salam étaient populaires est que, en milieu rural, la plupart des autres formes d'investissement e…
The Political Economy of Population Counts in Ottoman Palestine
New evidence, culled from the Nablus advisory council ( majlis al-shūrā ) records and based on an actual Ottoman population count taken in December 1849, indicates that the city's population at that time numbered at least 20,000 people, more than twice the frequently cited figure of 8,000–9,000. This revision raises serious doubts about the veracity of hitherto commonly accepted population figures, most of them based on contemporary estimates by …
Palestinian Islamic Court Records
The Major Lacuna in Palestinian historiography is the lack of social and economic histories, especially for the Ottoman period. Sijillāt al-maḥākim airshar‘īya (records of the Islamic religious courts), preserved in the major cities and towns of historic Palestine, are local Palestinian archives which can go a long way towards filling this gap. These records, some of which date from the first decades of the Ottoman occupation to the present, are …
Contesting Zionism
Azmi Shu'aibi
Palestinian Communists and the National Movement
Palestinian Islamic Court Records
The Major Lacuna in Palestinian historiography is the lack of social and economic histories, especially for the Ottoman period. Sijillāt al-maḥākim airshar‘īya (records of the Islamic religious courts), preserved in the major cities and towns of historic Palestine, are local Palestinian archives which can go a long way towards filling this gap. These records, some of which date from the first decades of the Ottoman occupation to the present, are …
They Dare to Speak Out
"We are Here to Stay"
"Something was in the Air All of 1987"
C. Reviews and notes
FIHRIS AL‐KHIZANAH AL‐'ILMIYYA AL‐SUBAYHIYYA BI‐SALA. CATALOG OF SUBAIHEYYA LIBRARY IN SALA. By MUHAMMAD HAJJI. Kuwait, MaTiad al‐Makhtūtat al‐'Arabiyya (Institute of Arab Manuscripts), 1985.722pp., illus. i. FIHRIS MAKHTÜTAT MAKTABAT KÜPRILI. CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE KÖPRÜLÜ LIBRARY. Prepared by RAMAZAN SESEN, CEVAT İZGİ, CEMIL AKPINAR. Istanbul, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 1406/1986. 3 vols. 609, 34; 647; 639,22…
Abu Farid's House
Building a State within a State
Building a State within a State
The Dynamics of Commerce
The Dynamics of Commerce
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine
Palestine in Transformation
Palestine in Transformation
After Oslo
The Political Economy of Population Counts in Ottoman Palestine
New evidence, culled from the Nablus advisory council ( majlis al-shūrā ) records and based on an actual Ottoman population count taken in December 1849, indicates that the city's population at that time numbered at least 20,000 people, more than twice the frequently cited figure of 8,000–9,000. This revision raises serious doubts about the veracity of hitherto commonly accepted population figures, most of them based on contemporary estimates by …
The Art of Creative Survival
The Art of Creative Survival
Rediscovering Palestine
Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by investigating the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting appropriated and gave meaning to the larger forces of Ottoman rule and Euro…
Endowing Family
Unlike in Europe and the United States, where the writing of family history has become a growth industry over the past thirty years, only recently have historians of Greater Syria during the Ottoman period (1516–1917) started investigating this topic.Also referred to as the Levant, or Bilad al-Sham, Greater Syria for the purposes of this article is today's Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine-Israel. As of yet, there is not a single published mon…
Rediscovering Palestine
Family History in the Middle East
History (27 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (26 works) · Political science (22 works) · Ancient history (21 works) · Palestine (18 works) · History (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (10 works)