Late Ottoman Palestine

The decisive consequences of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 had ramifications over the entire Ottoman Empire - and the Ottoman territory of Palestine was no exception. "Late Ottoman Palestine" examines the impact of Young Turk policies and reforms on local societies and administration, using Palestine as a prism through which to explore the impact of the Revolution in the provincial arena far from the administrative and political centre of the capital. It thus sheds light upon the last decade of Ottoman rule in Palestine, crucially dealing with the roots of Jewish-Arab conflict in the area and the early crystallization of Arab, Palestinian and Zionist identities, along with that of an Ottoman imperial identity. It will be a vital resource for students and researchers interested in the modern history of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire and Palestine.

Autorentext

Yuval Ben-Bassat is Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa. Eyal Ginio is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Case Study of Palestine during the Young Turk Era

Section A: Citizenship, Election, and Social Change

2. Making Citizens, Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine
3. Elections in Palestine during the Late Ottoman Period
4. Children of the Revolution: Youth in Palestinian Public Life, 1908-1914

Section B: The 'Civilizing Mission' and Centre-Periphery Relationships

5. The Public Works Scheme devised by the Young Turk Regime for the Cities of Jerusalem and Jaffa (1908-1914)
6. The Debate on Palestine in the Post-Revolutionary Ottoman Parliament
7. Jerusalem's Inhabitants during World War I

Section C: Intellectual Responses

8. Arab Intellectuals' Reaction to the Young Turk Revolution
9. Jews Writing in Arabic: Shimon Moyal, Nissim Malul and the Mixed Palestinian / Locale
10. The Young Turk Revolution as Reflected in the Media of the Jewish Community in Palestine

Section D: Inter- and Intra-Communal Relationships

11. Ecclesiastic Politics and 'The Question of Jerusalem' after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908:
    The Case of Jews, Armenians and Greeks
12. The Zionist Struggle as Reflected in the Post Revolutionary Jewish Press in Istanbul
13. The Baha'is and the Young Turk Revolution