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The Functions of Care (Timaar) System and the Causes of Its Collapse in Ottoman Empire [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2011
Care system was considered as the basis of official, governmental and financial system of Ottoman Empire. The development as well as the importance of domain in Ottoman government is apparent due to the position of most of their conquests inside the ...
Seyed Masood Shahmoradi, Kiyumars Azimi
doaj  

Disaster Caused by Drought and Famine: The Plague of Benghazi in 1858-1859 According to the Physicians of the Ottoman Sanitary Administration

open access: yesOsmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari, 2023
Although plague epidemics which killed millions of people throughout history, ceased to be a problem for Western Europe from the early eighteenth century on, outbreaks continued to occur in the Ottoman Empire.
Özgür Yılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911)

open access: yesMiddle Eastern Studies
When Istanbul prohibited the trade of enslaved Africans in 1857, the Ottoman local authorities expanded efforts to curb human trafficking throughout the imperial realm.
Salma Hargal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of British Diplomats in Yazidis Affairs in Iraq 1932-1939

open access: yesCihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Studying the history of minorities in Iraq has been  an important field of interest for many scholars. This study (The Role of British diplomats in Yazidis Affairs in Iraq1932- 1939) is an attempt to present and analyze the role of the British diplomats 
Rashid M. Muhammed   +2 more
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The 1894 Sasun Massacre: Revisiting the Number of Victims

open access: yesÉtudes Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2022
In the summer of 1894, the Armenians of several villages in Sasun, a region in the Ottoman province of Bitlis, refused to pay government taxes unless the state protected them from the extortion and illegal taxation levied by local Kurdish chieftains. The
Tigran Martirosyan
doaj   +1 more source

Building a Protestant Church on Ottoman Armenian Soil

open access: yesTürk Savaş Çalışmaları Dergisi
The presence of American missionaries in late Ottoman territory, exemplified by figures like Smith and Dwight, marked a significant chapter in the region's history.
David Barchard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND MOROCCAN RESISTANCE TO THE FRENCH PROTECTORATE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR: ACTIVITIES OF TEŞKILAT-I MAHSUSA IN MOROCCO

open access: yesHistory Studies, 2023
During the First World War, many armed resistance movements were fighting against the French Protectorate regime in Morocco. These movements became a serious threat to the French presence when the Ottoman Empire declared "jihad" and entered the war ...
Halil Kaya
doaj  

Local Authorities and Economic Development in Scotland - Report for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This report was commissioned by COSLA to identify the breadth, scale and importance of Scottish local authorities' activities in the field of economic ...
McQuaid, Ronald
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