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020			_a9781139521970 (ebook)
020			_z9781107033634 (hardback)
020			_z9781107619036 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aDR435.A66 _b.M37 2013
082	0	0	_a305.892/705609034 _223
100	1		_aMasters, Bruce, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918 : _bA Social and Cultural History / _cBruce Masters.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (276 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107033634
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139521970
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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