Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

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Adam Mestyan

Modern Arab Kingship

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Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

Adam Mestyan

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Princeton University Press
15 November 2023

Middle Eastern history; Political ideologies; Nationalism

How the ""recycling"" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle East

In this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe, products of European colonialism but of the process of ""recycling empire."" Mestyan shows that in the postWorld War I Middle East, Allied Powers officials and ex-Ottoman patricians collaborated to remake imperial institutions, recycling earlier Ottoman uses of genealogy and religion in the creation of new polities, with the exception of colonized Palestine. These polities, he contends, should be understood not in terms of colonies and nation-states but as subordinated sovereign local states-localized regimes of religious, ethnic, and dynastic sources of imperial authority. Meanwhile, governance without sovereignty became the new form of Western domination.

Drawing on previously unused Ottoman, French, Syrian, and Saudi archival sources, Mestyan explores ideas and practices of creating composite polities in the interwar Middle East and, in doing so, sheds light on local agency in the making of the forgotten Kingdom of the Hijaz, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Syria, the first Muslim republic. Mestyan considers the adjustment of imperial Islam to a world without a Muslim empire, discussing the post-Ottoman Egyptian monarchy and the intertwined making of Saudi Arabia and the State of Syria in the 1920s and 1930s.

Mestyan's innovative analysis shows how an empire-based theory of the modern political order can help refine our understanding of political dynamics throughout the twentieth century and down to the turbulent present day.

By: Adam Mestyan
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691190976
ISBN 10: 0691190976
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Mestyan is associate professor in the History Department at Duke University. He is the author of Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton) and Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo.

Reviews for Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

""Modern Arab Kingship is destined to become an influential text in the study of post-Ottoman state formation."" * Choice * ""An impressive work.""---Camille Lyans Cole, The Developing Economies ""By bridging legal history and political theory, [Modern Arab Kingship] elegantly constructs articulations of postimperial politics that will serve as building blocks for a paradigm across post-Ottoman space; in renarrating the eruption of Arab kingdoms following World War I, it offers a fresh take on how various stakeholders utilized the ruins of Ottoman order to contest for power and shape the post-Ottoman Arab world from the top-down and the middle-out.""---James Ryan, American Historical Review ""A richly provocative and . . . seminal study, particularly for its attentiveness to the concept of sovereignty.""---Paul L. Heck, JAOS