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Constitutionalism Unbound

Constitutional Dynamics and Political Transformation in the Ottoman and Qajar Lands in the Long Nineteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 as a transformative force across Ottoman and Iranian lands. It investigates how new political ideas and social dynamics across the century shaped constitutionalism into a multifaceted and potent movement, culminating in the revolutions of 1906 and 1908. It traces how constitutionalism durably altered conceptions of state and society, leaving a significant legacy in both Iranian and (post-)Ottoman contexts.Contributors are Houri Berberian, Yaşar Tolga Cora, Anne-Laure Dupont, Fujinami Nobuyoshi, Zaur Gasimov, Peter Hill, Denis Hermann, Erdal Kaynar, Varak Ketsemanian, Mira Xenia Schwerda, Alisa Schablovskaia, Nader Sohrabi and Barış Zeren.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-07
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt775 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSocial, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia
Antal sidor382
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004734654

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Denis Hermann, Ph.D. (2007), is a historian and researcher at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). Specializing in the history of Modern Iran and Shi’ism, his publications include Le shaykhisme à la période qajare: Histoire doctrinale et sociale d’une École chiite (Brepols, 2017).Erdal Kaynar, Ph.D. (2012), is associate professor in modern history at the University of Strasbourg. He works on the intellectual and political history of the late Ottoman Empire. His publications include L’héroïsme de la vie moderne. Ahmed Rıza en son temps (Peeters, 2021).

ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran: Histories and PerspectivesDenis Hermann and Erdal KaynarPart 1: Conceptualizing Constitutionalism: (Re-)Imagining Politics1 Who Can Participate in the Shūrā? Non-Muslims in the First Parliaments of Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1861–1911Anne-Laure Dupont2 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and Arabic ConstitutionalismPeter Hill3 The Nation Against the Sultan: Constitutionalist Thought in the Writings of the Young Turk Leader Ahmed RızaErdal Kaynar4 Democracy by Petition: the Popular Committees and What Made the Iranian Constitutionalism UniqueNader SohrabiPart 2: Constructing Constitutionalism: Ideas, Actors, and Networks5 Armenian Constitutionalism in the Late Ottoman Empire: the View from a ProvinceVarak Ketsemanian6 The Iranian Constitution in the Mirror of the Russian Azerbaijani PressZaur Gasimov7 Progressive Conservatives? The Young Turk Lectures on Constitutional LawNobuyoshi Fujinami8 Constitutionalism and the Political Ethos of the Last QajarsAlisa Shablovskaia9 Constitutional Authority and Shiʿi Political Culture: the Mobilisation of Messianic Logic by the Ulama during the Iranian Constitutional RevolutionDenis HermannPart 3: Enacting Constitutionalism: the Challenge of Constitutional Rule10 From Trusting to Cunning: Shifting Relations between Armenian Political Figures and Ḥasan Taqīzādeh during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)Houri Berberian11 Crafting the Image of Constitutionalism: the Phenomenon of Bast in Turn-of-the-Century Iran and the Visualization of ProtestMira Xenia Schwerda12 Coal Heavers’ Strike of 1910 in the Ottoman Capital: Labor Activism and Socialist Politics in the Second Constitutional EraYaşar Tolga Cora13 A Shift in Law-Making: Ottoman Constitutionalism Facing the Local in RumeliaBarış ZerenIndex