(Local Politics and Social Participation in Ottoman Jerusalem)
In the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ottoman Jerusalem was not only a city that stood out with its religious identity. It gained the identity of a "political center" thanks to the reforms implemented by the Ottoman government in line with its centralization policy, and began to become a "colonial city" due to the reconstruction, construction, and missionary activities carried out by European states for the communities they patronized. This study is the result of an attempt to find answers to these questions from the perspective of the collective petitions (arz-ı mahzarlar in Ottoman diplomatic terms) submitted to the local and central Ottoman authorities by the residents of Jerusalem themselves between 1840 and 1914.
ISBN: 978-625-94311-0-9
Release Date: January 2024
Size: 16.5x24
Page Count: 512
