The Deys and Beys of Tunis, 16661922

Auteur

Leïla Temime Blili (Author) is a professor of modern and contemporary history at the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and the Humanities at the University of Manouba in Tunisia. She is the author of The Regency of Tunis, 1535-1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghrib (AUC Press, 2021).

Julia Clancy-Smith (Foreword by) is a Regent's Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Laura Thompson (Translated by) is a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Boston University.

Margaux Fitoussi (Translated by) is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Columbia University. She is co-translator of The Regency of Tunis, 1535-1666: Genesis of an Ottoman Province in the Maghrib (AUC Press, 2021).

Contenu

Foreword Julia Clancy-Smith
Introduction
Translators' Note

PART 1
1666-1705: The Years of Uncertainty: Between Military Power and Beylical Houses

Chapter 1: The Maghreb in the Seventeenth Century: The Revolt of the Regencies
Chapter 2: Tripoli: On Tunis' Path
Chapter 3: The Legacy of Hamouda Pasha and the Difficult Early Years of the Mouradid House
Chapter 4: The Civil War and the Weakening of the Mouradid House (1675-96)
Chapter 5: The Era of Reforms (1835-77)
Chapter 6: Muhammad Shalabi, alias Dom Philippe, son of Ahmad Khouja Dey (1627-86): The Western Temptation
Chapter 7: The Life and Death of the Last Mouradids

PART 2
Prologue: 'Azîza 'Othmana: The Bridge and the Plank: Power and Lineal Transmission

Chapter 8: Brahim al Sherif in Power: Rupture or Continuity? (1702-1705)
Chapter 9: Setting up the Husseinid House and Narrating Its Legitimacy
Chapter 10: Husseinid Legitimacy Put to the Test of Filiation
Chapter 11: Power Between Consensus and Violence
Chapter 12: The Era of Reforms (1835-77)
Chapter 13: Sadaq Bey: The Failed Institutionalization
Chapter 14: Beylical Power Put to the Test of Colonialism
Epilogue: The End of an Empire, The Start of a Nation
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index