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Historians of the Middle East in the long nineteenth century have often considered empire-building the preserve of European powers. This book revises that picture by exploring how the Ottomans re-conquered and ruled large parts of present-day Yemen between 1849 and the end of World War I, after more than two centuries of independence under local dynasties. Drawing on a wide range of sources and on recent scholarship on empire and colonialism, Empire, Islam, and Politics of Difference shows how the concepts and practices of Ottoman imperial rule were shaped through the encounters between Ottoman officials, their European rivals, and local communities. The result is a fresh look at the nature of governance in the late Ottoman Empire more generally.
Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ ix
Note on Transliteration and Date Conversion ............................. xv
Abbreviations ..................................................................................... xvii
Maps ..................................................................................................... xix
1. Introduction .................................................................................. 1
2. The 'Return of the Turks': The Campaigns of 1871-73 and the Context of Tanẓīmāt Imperialism ............. 31
3. Imperial Visions: Knowledge Production, Empire, and the Creation of Difference, 1849-75 .................. 53
4. 'According to Their Customs and Dispositions': Elaborating Politics of Difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874-91 .............. 91
5. Struggling for a Righteous Order: The Rise of the Zaydī imāms and the Reconfiguration of Difference, 1890-1908 .... 147
6. An Imperial Borderland as Colony? The Daʿʿān Agreement and the Reaffirmation of Colonial Ottomanism, 1905-19 .... 201
Conclusion .......................................................................................... 247
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 253
Index .................................................................................................... 271