BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Program in Islamic Law - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Program in Islamic Law X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Program in Islamic Law REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T183000 DTSTAMP:20260722T231419 CREATED:20240201T203359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T232216Z UID:10001604-1707930000-1707935400@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” with Nora Barakat\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, February 14\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” \nDate: Wednesday\, February 14\, 2024\,  5:00pm to 6:30pm \nLocation: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents \nNora Barakat\nAssistant Professor of History\, Stanford University \nIn the late nineteenth century\, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as “empty.” Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling\, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local\, imperial\, and global scales. As the “tribe” became a category of Ottoman administration\, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. \nNarrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration\, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making\, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth\, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the “empty land” they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal\, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately\, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria\, who maintained their control over land. \nLink: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-bedouin-bureaucrats-mobility-and-property-ottoman-empire\nContact: Liz Flanagan URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-bedouin-bureaucrats-mobility-and-property-in-the-ottoman-empire-with-nora-barakat-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-february-14-2024/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR