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 Sanüsiyya 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...
| Publicado en: | Welt des Islams Vol. 54; no. 3/4; pp. 322 - 363 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2014
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