The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814: Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Routledge Islamic Studies Series) - Hardcover

Moalla, Asma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415297818 ISBN 13: 9780415297813

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. This work thus initiates a systematic revision of a major thesis that has prevailed in the body of contemporary research on the Tunisian Regency. Asma Moalla shows that the Regency's administrative and political evolution from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth was not a process of a gradual and irreversible emancipation from the influence and authority of the central Ottoman state.

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About the Author:

Asma Moalla was born in Tunis and educated at the University of Tunis and the Sorbonne, University of Paris. She received a PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2000. She currently lives in Tunis and works as a translator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415297818
• ISBN 13: 9780415297813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200