BOOKS - Palestine And The Decline Of The Ottoman Empire
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Palestine And The Decline Of The Ottoman Empire
Author: Arid Al-Salim
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.0 MB
Language: English
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.0 MB
Language: English
During the final decades of Ottoman rule Palestine was administratively divided into two states Jerusalem and Beirut Both provinces exhibited a strikingly cohesive history of modernisation and as the Ottoman Empire began to recede the education systems taxation and bureaucracy which were left behind formed the foundation of administration in the Palestinian authority today The reign of Sultan Abdulmecid I saw great changes in Palestine in line with the Tanzimat reform programme These changes included the monetisation of the economy structural changes in land ownership legal reform moves towards Ottoman centralisation and the first European immigration to the area Education was expanded to the lower classes and Arab and Palestinian nationalism and Islamic movements began to stir by the end of the century as the first Zionist settlers arrived At the heart of these radical shifts in thought and infrastructure were the new administrative centres established by the Ottomans during this period of re organisation Drawing extensively on official Ottoman records Farid Al Salim charts the transformation of one such centre Tulkarm from a small village in central Palestine to a seat of administrative reform in order to provide a new account of the forces behind the formation of modern Palestine
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