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Modern Arab Kingship

Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

By: Adam Mestyan

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Modern Arab Kingship

Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

By: Adam Mestyan

How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East In this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process of “recycling empire.” Mestyan shows that in the post–World War I Middle East, Allied Powers officials and ex-Ottoman patricians collaborated to remake imperial institutions, recycling earlier Ottoman uses of genealogy and religion in the creation of new polities, with the exception of colonized Palestine. The polities, he contends, should be understood not in terms of colonies and nation states but as subordinated sovereign local states—localized regimes of religious, ethnic, and dynastic sources of imperial authority. Meanwhile, governance without sovereignty became the new form of Western domination. Drawing on hitherto unused Ottoman, French, Syrian, and Saudi archival sources, Mestyan explores ideas and practices of creating composite polities in the interwar Middle East and, doing so, sheds light on local agency in the making of the forgotten Kingdom of the Hijaz, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, the first Muslim republic. Mestyan considers the adjustment of imperial Islam to a world without a Muslim empire, discussing the post-Ottoman Egyptian monarchy and the intertwined making of Saudi Arabia and the State of Syria in the 1920s and 1930s. Mestyan’s innovative analysis shows how an empire-based theory of the modern political order can help refine our understanding of political dynamics throughout the twentieth century and down to the turbulent present day.

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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's. The Garden of Ismail's Praise

By: Adam Mestyan

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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's. The Garden of Ismail's Praise

By: Adam Mestyan

How old is the world? This question was a central problem for Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the face of the new scientific discoveries in the nineteenth century. This book introduces the answer from a Muslim point of view, outside of official institutions. The extended introduction - a microhistory in the Middle East - explores the life and oeuvre of a forgotten Egyptian intellectual and poet, Mustafa Salama al-Naggari (d. 1870). Next, A. Mestyan provides the English translation and Arabic transcription of the surviving fragments of al-Naggari's manuscript, The Garden of Ismail's Praise. This is a universal history of Egypt, written while the Suez Canal was under construction to praise the governor Khedive Ismail (r. 1863-1879). The author advocates a unique solution to computing the period of primordial history, before the Deluge, in the age of steam and print. Al-Naggari's alternative Nahda voice is available for the first time in this edition.

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Arab Patriotism

The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt

By: Adam Mestyan

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Arab Patriotism

The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt

By: Adam Mestyan

Arab Patriotism presents the essential backstory to the formation of the modern nation-state and mass nationalism in the Middle East. While standard histories claim that the roots of Arab nationalism emerged in opposition to the Ottoman milieu, Adam Mestyan points to the patriotic sentiment that grew in the Egyptian province of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century, arguing that it served as a pivotal way station on the path to the birth of Arab nationhood. Through extensive archival research, Mestyan examines the collusion of various Ottoman elites in creating this nascent sense of national belonging and finds that learned culture played a central role in this development. Mestyan investigates the experience of community during this period, engendered through participation in public rituals and being part of a theater audience. He describes the embodied and textual ways these experiences were produced through urban spaces, poetry, performances, and journals. From the Khedivial Opera House's staging of Verdi's Aida and the first Arabic magazine to the 'Urabi revolution and the restoration of the authority of Ottoman viceroys under British occupation, Mestyan illuminates the cultural dynamics of a regime that served as the precondition for nation-building in the Middle East. --

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Princeton University Press

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0691209014

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Modern Arab Kingship

Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

By: Adam Mestyan

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Modern Arab Kingship

Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

By: Adam Mestyan

How the “recycling” of the Ottoman Empire’s uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East In this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process of “recycling empire.” Mestyan shows that in the post–World War I Middle East, Allied Powers officials and ex-Ottoman patricians collaborated to remake imperial institutions, recycling earlier Ottoman uses of genealogy and religion in the creation of new polities, with the exception of colonized Palestine. These polities, he contends, should be understood not in terms of colonies and nation-states but as subordinated sovereign local states—localized regimes of religious, ethnic, and dynastic sources of imperial authority. Meanwhile, governance without sovereignty became the new form of Western domination. Drawing on previously unused Ottoman, French, Syrian, and Saudi archival sources, Mestyan explores ideas and practices of creating composite polities in the interwar Middle East and, in doing so, sheds light on local agency in the making of the forgotten Kingdom of the Hijaz, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, the first Muslim republic. Mestyan considers the adjustment of imperial Islam to a world without a Muslim empire, discussing the post-Ottoman Egyptian monarchy and the intertwined making of Saudi Arabia and the State of Syria in the 1920s and 1930s. Mestyan’s innovative analysis shows how an empire-based theory of the modern political order can help refine our understanding of political dynamics throughout the twentieth century and down to the turbulent present day.

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How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

By: Adam Talib

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How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

By: Adam Talib

The qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? is the first study of this highly popular and adaptable genre of Arabic poetry. By addressing this lacuna, the book models an alternative comparative literature, one in which the history of Arabic poetry has as much to tell us about epigrams as does Greek.

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9004350535

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Arab Patriotism

The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt

By: Adam Mestyan

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The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt

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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's. The Garden of Ismail's Praise

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Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Mustafa Salama al-Naggari's. The Garden of Ismail's Praise

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The Sacred Book of Adam

Adam, The Chosen One on the earth today. Beware of 2041

By: Ben Adam

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The Sacred Book of Adam

Adam, The Chosen One on the earth today. Beware of 2041

By: Ben Adam

SON OF MAN I'm known as: Michael - The Chosen One - Ancient of Days - Elect One - Adam As foretold by the scriptures who liveth amongst you now for these last days in this sacred Book of Adam 45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last cAdam was made a dquickening spirit 1 Corinthians 15:45

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The 7 Kingdoms of the Telestial World

Adam from the Old Testament wrote these

By: Ben Adam

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The 7 Kingdoms of the Telestial World

Adam from the Old Testament wrote these

By: Ben Adam

There are 7 Kingdoms that are inside the Telestial Kingdom. Adam of the Old Testament breaks this sacred information in the last days. This translation was orginally written in Hebrew. Ben Adam translates it to perfect English. The seven kingdoms are from top to bottom. When one arrives after the 1000 year millenium and after Christ's final judgement, if assigned to this kingdom you start at what Adam calls "Telestial 0". There are 3 kingdoms below Telestial zero and 3 above. Adam says they surpass all understanding and comprehension but gives us the first real indepth look of each kingdom which are all found here: sites.google.com/view/lawsofthetelestialkingdom/ The 3 Kingdom's above are "beyond imagination" but explained in detail The 3 Kingdom's below are "from similarities to earth life with a real purge to take place yearly, however since the body is resurrected, one cannot die". -Adam, Prophet of the Old Testament and first born with Eve

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Modern Arab Kingship

Modern Arab Kingship

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Arab Patriotism

Arab Patriotism

Modern Arab Kingship

Modern Arab Kingship

How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic?: Literary History at the Limits of Comparison

Arab Patriotism

Arab Patriotism

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo

The Sacred Book of Adam

The Sacred Book of Adam

The 7 Kingdoms of the Telestial World

The 7 Kingdoms of the Telestial World

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