Toward a Maghribi Turn in Ottoman History

The fields of Ottoman and Maghribi history have largely developed independently of one another. Thanks to the outlooks of both colonialist and nationalist historiographies of the Maghrib, historians of North Africa for a long time mostly ignored the Ottoman presence or depicted the Ottomans as distant, foreign conquerors. Ottoman historians tended to see the Maghrib as peripheral to the history of the empire and to portray North African provinces as largely irrelevant to the core of Ottoman history. Since the 1970s, a smattering of scholars has attempted to connect the histories of the Ottoman Empire and the Maghrib. Building on this growing body of work, this article argues for the usefulness of taking the Ottoman Empire seriously in the study of Maghribi history, and of taking the Maghrib seriously in the study of the Ottoman Empire. After an exploration of the historiography, we turn to a discussion of sovereignty as an example of what the Maghribi turn in Ottoman history might look like. Rather than consign North Africa to an imagined periphery, we ask how Ottoman historiography can be reimagined when we view the empire from the Maghrib

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