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Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
  • A Social History
  • Beshara B. Doumani
  • Published online:
    29 June 2017
    Print publication:
    08 June 2017
  • In writings about Islam, women and modernity in the Middle East, family and religion are frequently invoked but rarely historicized. Based on a wide range of local sources spanning two centuries (1660–1860), Beshara B. Doumani argues that there is no such thing as the Muslim or Arab family type that is so central to Orientalist, nationalist, and Islamist narratives. Rather, one finds dramatic regional differences, even within the same cultural zone, in the ways that family was understood, organized, and reproduced. In his comparative examination of the property devolution strategies and gender regimes in the context of local political economies, Doumani offers a groundbreaking examination of the stories and priorities of ordinary people and how they shaped the making of the modern Middle East.

  • Chapter 1 - Maryam's Final Word

  • Beshara B. Doumani, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
    Published online:
    29 June 2017
    Print publication:
    08 June 2017, pp 1-46
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  • The Political Economy of Population Counts in Ottoman Palestine: Nablus, circa 1850

  • Beshara B. Doumani
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / February 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 April 2009, pp. 1-17
    Print publication:
    February 1994

  • New evidence, culled from the Nablus advisory council (majlis al-shūrā) records and based on an actual Ottoman population count taken in December 1849, indicates that the city's population at that time numbered at least 20,000 people, more than twice the frequently cited figure of 8,000–9,000. This revision raises serious doubts about the veracity of hitherto commonly accepted population figures, most of them based on contemporary estimates by Western observers, for the various regions of Palestine during the first three-quarters of the 19th century. Moreover, when compared to available data for Nablus from the 16th and the late 19th centuries, it seems that the pattern of Nablus's demographic development differs from what the proponents of Ottoman decline and modernization theses have argued.2 Instead of decreasing during the so-called dark ages of Ottoman decline in the 17th and 18th centuries, Nablus's population increased significantly; and instead of growing robustly during the so-called period of modernization in the second half of the 19th century, it appears to have leveled off.

  • Palestinian Islamic Court Records: A Source for Socioeconomic History*

  • Beshara B. Doumani
  • Journal:
    Middle East Studies Association Bulletin / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / December 1985
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 March 2016, pp. 155-172
    Print publication:
    December 1985

  • The Major Lacuna in Palestinian historiography is the lack of social and economic histories, especially for the Ottoman period.

    Sijillāt al-maḥākim airshar‘īya (records of the Islamic religious courts), preserved in the major cities and towns of historic Palestine, are local Palestinian archives which can go a long way towards filling this gap. These records, some of which date from the first decades of the Ottoman occupation to the present, are akin to a people’s history. Literally hundreds of volumes illustrate in a concrete and detailed manner nearly every aspect of daily human interaction – be it in the personal, social, economic, religious, or administrative fields.