Empire, Islam, and politics of difference
Subtitle: Ottoman rule in Yemen, 1849-1919
By: by Thomas Kuehn
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage : politics, society and economy -- v. 48; Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 48.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9789004211315
Subjects: History; Turks; Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'return of the Turks': the campaigns of 1871-73 and the context of Tanzimat imperialism; title: Imperial visions : knowledge production, empire, and the creation of difference, 1849-75; title: 'According to their customs and dispositions' : elaborating politics of difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874-91; title: Struggling for a righteous order : the rise of the Zaydi imams and the reconfiguration of difference, 1890-1908; title: An imperial borderland as colony? the Da"an agreement and the reaffirmation of colonial Ottomanism, 1905-19.