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Political Literacy and the Politics of Eloquence: Ottoman Scribal Community in the Seventeenth Century
(2014-02-25)
In 1703, the chief scribe (reisü'l-küttab) Rami Mehmed Efendi (d. 1708) was appointed as the grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire. In scholarship, Rami Mehmed epitomizes the transition in the political cadres from the people ...
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968
(2014-06-06)
The deposition of Imam Muhammad al-Badr in September 1962 was the culmination of a Yemeni nationalist movement that began in the 1940s with numerous failed attempts to overthrow the traditional religious legal order. Prior ...