Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History

Şeyma Nur Temel

doi:10.20519/divan.614181

Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History

Abstract

Beshara Doumani’s book deals with the family dynamics in the Ottoman

Arab lands before the Western hegemony ruled over there, focusing on

“three of the areas usually ignored in the scholarship: provincial regions,

the middle centuries of the Ottoman rule, and middling propertied urban

groups.” (p. 39) Challenging “big isms” such as Orientalism or Islamism,

he aims at historicizing family in Nablus and Tripoli in order to offer a new

and better frame for family, gender and property of this time and freeing

them from stereotypes. The relatively large time period of this study is two

centuries spanning from 1660 to 1860 on the ground that “family life is

best measured by generations, not decades.” (p. 40) The author primarily

relies on the Ottoman court records and utilizes stories of people derived

from these records as the skeleton of the chapters. To him, these registers

create a “communal textual memory,” therefore worthy of attention of not

only legalists, but also of social historians to delve into daily life of ordinary

individuals.

Keywords

Ottoman History,Mediterranean Social History

References

Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Book Review

Authors

Şeyma Nur Temel This is me

Publication Date

August 1, 2019

Submission Date

June 11, 2019

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 2019 Volume: 24 Number: 46

DOI

https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.614181

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA74NK96ML

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RIS / Bibtex

APA

Temel, Ş. N. (2019). Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi, 24(46). https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.614181

AMA

1.Temel ŞN. Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi. 2019;24(46). doi:10.20519/divan.614181

Chicago

Temel, Şeyma Nur. 2019. “Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History”. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi 24 (46). https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.614181.

EndNote

Temel ŞN (August 1, 2019) Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi 24 46

IEEE

[1]Ş. N. Temel, “Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History”, Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi, vol. 24, no. 46, Aug. 2019, doi: 10.20519/divan.614181.

ISNAD

Temel, Şeyma Nur. “Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History”. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi 24/46 (August 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.20519/divan.614181.

JAMA

1.Temel ŞN. Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi. 2019;24. doi:10.20519/divan.614181.

MLA

Temel, Şeyma Nur. “Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History”. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi, vol. 24, no. 46, Aug. 2019, doi:10.20519/divan.614181.

Vancouver

1.Şeyma Nur Temel. Beshara B. Doumani. Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History. Dîvân Disiplinlerarası Çalışmalar Dergisi. 2019 Aug. 1;24(46). doi:10.20519/divan.614181