The Ottoman Scramble for Africa
Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12237308 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincent Hiribarren (0000-0002-8742-9576, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 272-274 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Islamic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-2340 • E-ISSN: 1471-6917 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jis/etx067 |
| OpenAlex | W2758447973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
The Ottoman Scramble for Africa challenges our assumption that the Ottoman Empire was not an important diplomatic power at the end of the nineteenth century. It was actually the opposite. Mostafa Minawi shows in this study that Istanbul was an expansionist force in the Lake Chad basin, the Eastern Sahara and Western Arabia in the 1880s and 1890s. The ‘Sick Man of Europe’ was actually playing on the same ground as the other European powers and, so far, the historiography has neglected this important phenomenon. The strength of Minawi’s study comes from its numerous Ottoman sources. Using diplomatic documents mainly kept in Istanbul, he unveils the Ottoman side of negotiations held in Berlin, London or Paris. The linguistic skills of the author enable him to tackle African and Arabic dimensions of colonialism from the Ottoman perspective. As for the interaction between the history of Africa and the Middle East, this book clearly demonstrates the value of Ottoman sources in an African and Arabian context
Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Diplomacy · Expansionism · Geography · Historiography · Negotiation · Ottoman empire · Political science · African history and culture analysis · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Islamic Studies and History · History · Law
| Citations per year | 1.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |