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Volume 47 - August 2015

Contents

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Ottoman History

Book Review

Roundtable

Historicizing Science and the Modern State

  • Three Questions for Historians of Science in the Modern Middle East and North Africa

  • Cyrus Schayegh
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2015, pp. 588-591

  • What was science, who was involved in it, and where did it unfold in the modern Middle East and North Africa? These are the three questions raised in this piece. The following notes echo my past research on the growth and societal relevance of biomedical sciences in Iran, and are also informed by a new interest in social sciences and, more particularly, in the establishment in 1927 of the Social Science Research Section at the American University of Beirut (AUB; called Syrian Protestant College until 1920) and its subsequent work. A handful of social scientists led by the American Stuart Dodd and financed by the US Rockefeller Foundation, which was active worldwide, helped turn AUB into a hub not only of education, but more than before, of research too. Covering wide swathes of the “Near East,” these social scientists framed that region as an extraordinary “laboratory” for social science research.

History

Book Review

Law and Legitimacy

Book Review

History

Book Review

Ottoman History

Book Review

Review Article

  • CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE OTTOMAN BALKANS: EDUCATION, REFORM, AND FAILED CONVERSIONS, 1819–1967

  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2015, pp. 593-604

  • The last few decades have seen a rise in the number of studies on Christian missions. These studies are located within a wide range of fields and are written from different perspectives. They tend to abide by national boundaries and to focus on mission organizations and missionaries, not least because of the availability of source material in Western languages. Recent historiography on Christian missions to the Middle East, however, has seen a profound change in approach, methodology, and sources. We can locate three main shifts: a national to a transnational approach, a reevaluation of local agency, and a new emphasis on unintended consequences.

History

Book Review

Reading and Narratives

Book Review

Ottoman History

Book Review

Literature and Visual Culture

Book Review

Literature, Theater, and Cinema

Book Review

Literature and Visual Culture

Book Review

Ottoman History

Book Review

Reading and Narratives

Book Review

Literature, Theater, and Cinema

Book Review

Ethnography

Book Review

Literature and Visual Culture

Book Review

Reading and Narratives

Book Review

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