Constitutionalism Unbound : Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century /

Constitutionalism Unbound : Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century /

Is democracy a foreign concept to the political culture of the Near East? This perennially debated question often overlooks a crucial historical factor: the rise of Ottoman and Qajar constitutionalism during the long nineteenth century. This volume is the first study to emphasize constitutionalism a...

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Other Authors: Hermann, Denis (Editor), Kaynar, Erdal (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 135.

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Philosophy.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran: Histories and Perspectives
  •   Denis Hermann and Erdal Kaynar
  • Part 1: Conceptualizing Constitutionalism: (Re-)Imagining Politics
  • 1 Who Can Participate in the Shūrā? Non-Muslims in the First Parliaments of Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1861-1911
  •   Anne-Laure Dupont
  • 2 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and Arabic Constitutionalism
  •   Peter Hill
  • 3 The Nation Against the Sultan: Constitutionalist Thought in the Writings of the Young Turk Leader Ahmed Rıza
  •   Erdal Kaynar
  • 4 Democracy by Petition: the Popular Committees and What Made the Iranian Constitutionalism Unique
  •   Nader Sohrabi
  • Part 2: Constructing Constitutionalism: Ideas, Actors, and Networks
  • 5 Armenian Constitutionalism in the Late Ottoman Empire: the View from a Province
  •   Varak Ketsemanian
  • 6 The Iranian Constitution in the Mirror of the Russian Azerbaijani Press
  •   Zaur Gasimov
  • 7 Progressive Conservatives? The Young Turk Lectures on Constitutional Law
  •   Nobuyoshi Fujinami
  • 8 Constitutionalism and the Political Ethos of the Last Qajars
  •   Alisa Shablovskaia
  • 9 Constitutional Authority and Shiʿi Political Culture: the Mobilisation of Messianic Logic by the Ulama during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution
  •   Denis Hermann
  • Part 3: Enacting Constitutionalism: the Challenge of Constitutional Rule
  • 10 From Trusting to Cunning: Shifting Relations between Armenian Political Figures and Ḥasan Taqīzādeh during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911)
  •   Houri Berberian
  • 11 Crafting the Image of Constitutionalism: the Phenomenon of Bast in Turn-of-the-Century Iran and the Visualization of Protest
  •   Mira Xenia Schwerda
  • 12 Coal Heavers' Strike of 1910 in the Ottoman Capital: Labor Activism and Socialist Politics in the Second Constitutional Era
  •   Yaşar Tolga Cora
  • 13 A Shift in Law-Making: Ottoman Constitutionalism Facing the Local in Rumelia
  •   Barış Zeren
  • Index.