The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire

Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction: Towards a New Urban Paradigm
I. Discourse and Practice of Ottomanism
	Rethinking Ottoman Imperialism: Modernity,
Violence and the Cultural Logic of Ottoman Reform
	Practices of Integration - Center-Periphery Relations in the Ottoman Empire
II. The Empire and the European in Arab Provincial Capitals
	Acre; the First Instance of Changing Times
	Foreign Presence and Perception of Ottoman Rule
in Beirut
	Housing the Foreign: A European’s Exotic Home in Late Nineteenth-Century Beirut
III. Participating in Empire, Shaping the Surroundings, and Challenging Authority
	Ottoman Provincial Towns in the
Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
	Images of Imagined Worlds
	The Cairo Cab Drivers and the Strike of 1907
IV. Urban Institutions Between Centralization and Autonomy
	Waqf Only in Name, Not in Essence
	Centralized Authority and Local Decisional Power
V. Portraying a New Ottoman Presence
	Ottoman Photography: Recording and
Contributing to Modernity
VI. Empire, Patrons and Domestic Architecture
	The Formation of a Tanzimat City in Southern Turkey
	The Central Hall House; Regional
Commonalities and Local Specificities
	As-Sayyid Abu ‘l-Huda al-Sayyadi in Aleppo
VII. The Ottoman Civilizing Mission
	Nineteenth Century Baghdad through Ottoman Eyes
	Ordering Urban Space in Ottoman Yemen, 1872-1914
	The Ottoman Empire and Yemeni Politics in the Sancaq of Ta'izz, 1911-1918
About the Authors
Index