Intermediaries and local knowledge in a changing political environment: complaints from Libya at the turn of the 20th century


As historiography on Ottoman Tripolitania and Benghazi focuses mainly on the Italian invasion and on the Sanūsiyya and pays little attention to Ottoman records, studies on political practice and change in that period are rare. However, the special circumstances of that remote and sparsely populated...

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Published in:Die Welt des Islams
Main Author: Sievert, Henning (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Die Welt des Islams
Further subjects:B Ottoman Empire
 Libya
 complaints
 sociopolitical order
 cultural translation
 communication
 political language
 local knowledge
 intermediary
 legitimacy

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