Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq : Political Reform, Modernization and Development in the Nineteenth Century Middle East.
Title:
Ottoman Origins of Modern Iraq : Political Reform, Modernization and Development in the Nineteenth Century Middle East.
Author:
Ceylan, Ebubekir.
ISBN:
9780857720412
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (314 pages)
Series:
Library of Ottoman Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Photographs -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Studying Arab provincial capitals -- From the center to the periphery: Tanzimat centralization, Modernization and Ottomanism -- 1. Ottoman Iraq: Geography, People and History -- Baghdad: The Eastern Periphery? -- Population and the people of Baghdad -- The Mamluks in Baghdad -- 2. 'Bringing the State Back in': The re-assertion of Ottoman Direct Rule in Iraq -- The end of the Jalilis in Mosul -- The fall of the Kurdish emirates in northern Iraq -- The Rawanduz (Soran) emirate -- The Bahdinan emirate -- The Baban emirate -- The Botan emirate -- The sacred cities of Karbala and Najaf -- Asâyiş ve Emniyet: Provincial security in Baghdad -- Introduction of Kur'a-i şer'iyye (conscription by ballot) -- Reinforcement of the Provincial army -- 3. Ottoman Provincial Administration in Baghdad -- Rulers of the provincial periphery: Governors of Baghdad -- Midhat Pasha in the historiography of Iraq -- Müşîr-Pashas: Politics and military affairs in Baghdad -- Provincial bureaucracy: The low-ranking officials -- 4. Tanzimat as applied in Ottoman Baghdad -- Establishment of provincial councils in Ottoman Iraq -- Advisory councils in Baghdad -- The reform of the provincial councils -- The provincial regulations of 1849 -- Small councils of the sub-provinces -- The introduction of the Provincial (Vilâyet) Law in Baghdad -- 5. The Land and the Tribes -- Politics of tribe: Carrot or stick? -- Playing off one tribe against another -- Government subsidies, robes and honorary titles -- Incorporation into the provincial political apparatus -- Appointing and dismissing the paramount sheikh -- Settling of the tribes -- Land-holding patterns in Baghdad and the implementation of land reforms.
Between the tribes and the local government: The land in Ottoman Iraq -- Causes of the decline of Iraqi agriculture -- Communal ownership of the land -- Changes in the status quo and the implementation of the Land Code in Baghdad -- Midhat Pasha and the Land Code -- Consequences of the Land Code -- 6. Public Works (Umur-i Nafi'a) and modernization in Baghdad -- The governors and provincial modernization -- Rebuilding Basra on the river bank -- The foundation of provincial municipality in Baghdad -- Urban life and infrastructural development -- Telegraph and railway -- River steamers and naval communication -- İdâre-i Ummân-ı Osmâniye -- Midhat Pasha's contribution to the steamer service -- The Euphrates Project -- Improvement of Basra dockyard and harbor -- Irrigation and canal projects -- Transportation and railroads -- Education -- Printing houses and provincial newspapers -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
As a result of the various reforms of the mid-nineteenth century Tanzimat ('reorganisation') era, Ottoman authority in Iraq was much stronger and better administered by the 1870s, than it had been when the Ottomans imposed direct rule over the region in the 1830s. Drawing upon original source documents, Ebubekir Ceylan provides the first comprehensive study of the Tanzimat reforms in Iraq in the nineteenth century, focusing on aspects of political reform, modernization and development and analyzing both the successes and failures of the reform process. The reforms included administrative and military centralization, the establishment of provincial councils and these, as well as the Ottoman tribal policy and the Ottoman contribution to the modernization of urban life and infrastructure. Ceylan demonstrates that the origins of modern Iraq can be found in the period of Ottoman rule in the nineteenth century._x000D_ _x000D_ 'Ebubekir Ceylan is one of the up-and-coming historians of Ottoman Iraq. Here, he takes a fresh look at a much-neglected part of Iraq's history. Unlike previous histories that tend to look at Iraq from above, Professor Ceylan argues successfully that Ottoman reforms should be seen as an interplay between the Imperial capital and the so-called "periphery" which was Iraq. In this, he has made ample use of archival, literary and consular material to rewrite the contours of a crucial period in the country's history. By arguing that the Tanzimat era was a period of experimentation in Iraq, as in other "troublesome" provinces of the Empire, Professor Ceylan makes a subtle and intelligent case for extending the reformist roots of Iraq to before the government of Midhat Pasha. By so doing, the author of this informative book gives the country a longer perspective on modernity and the development of a reformist political and administrative
tradition.'_x000D_ Dr. Hala Fattah, Resident Director and Senior Scholar in Residence, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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