Untold histories of the Middle East
Subtitle: recovering voices from the 19th and 20th centuries
By: edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann and Selçuk Aksin Somel.
Contributors: Singer, Amy.; Neumann, Christoph K., 1962-; Somel, Selçuk Akşin.
Series: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East -- no. 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415570107; 9780203845363
Subjects: Middle East -- History -- 20th century; Middle East -- History -- 19th century; Turkey -- History -- 20th century; Turkey -- History -- 19th century; Middle East -- Historiography; Turkey -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : resounding silent voices / Selçuk Aksin Somel, Christoph K. Neumann, and Amy Singer; title: Unraveling layers of gendered silencing : converted Armenian survivors of the 1915 catastrophe / Ayse Gül Altinay and Yektan Türkyilmaz; title: Interfaith unions and non-Muslim wives in the early twentieth-century Alexandria Islamic courts / Hanan Kholoussy; title: The silence of the pregnant bride : non-marital sex in Middle Eastern societies / Liat Kozma; title: Silent voices within the elites : the social biography of a modern shaykh / Yoav Alon; title: A nationalist discourse of heroism and treason : the construction of an "official" image of Çerkes Ethem (1886-1948) in Turkish historiography, and recent challenges / Bülent Bilmez; title: On the margins of national historiography : the Greek Ittihatçi Emmanouil Emmanouilidis : opportunist or Ottoman patriot? / Vangelis Kechriotis; title: The Ottoman Empire's absent nineteenth century : autonomous subjects / Christine Philliou; title: Looking behind Hajji Baba of Ispahan : the case of Mirza Abul Hasan Khan / Ilchi Shirazi Naghmeh Sohrabi; title: Between the Balkan wars (1912-13) and the "Third Balkan War" of the 1990s : the memory of the Balkans in Arabic Writings / Eyal Ginio; title: The courts of the Palestinian-Arab revolt, 1936-1939 / Mustafa Kabha; title: Multiplicity or polarity : a discursive analysis of post-1908 violence in an Ottoman region / Meltem Toksöz.