An Ibadi Diplomat in late-Ottoman Cairo: The Life & Afterlife of Saʿid al-Shammakhi

Contenu

Titre

An Ibadi Diplomat in late-Ottoman Cairo: The Life & Afterlife of Saʿid al-Shammakhi

Auteur

Love Jr, Paul M.

Date

2024

Dans

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Résumé

, ABSTRACT:, This article follows the career of Saʿīd al-Shammākhī (d.1883), who served in Cairo, Egypt as the wakil of the Bey of Tunis from 1871–1881. I suggest that Shammakhi's life and career as wakil offers novel valence and voice to an increasingly polyvalent, polyphonic, and polychronic history of late Ottoman North Africa; namely, that of an Ibadi Muslim commercial and diplomatic agent, whose career linked two late-Ottoman Arab provinces at a decisive period in their history. The article situates Shammakhi in recent scholarship on late-Ottoman North Africa, with an emphasis on work that has sought to decenter European imperialism and colonialism as the defining factors in the chronology and history of the region. It also outlines his biography leading up to his appointment as wakil before then contextualizing Shammakhi's role as wakil by explaining the nature of that office. Shammakhi's time as wakil—and even the years following his death—expressed multiple belongings, imagined alternative futures past, and embodied a life and afterlife disrupted, but not defined, by the encounter between European imperialism and Ottoman lands in Africa.

Sujet

Djerba -- Empire ottoman

Langue

eng

volume

11

numéro

1

pages

155-177

issn

2376-0702

Titre abrégé

An Ibadi Diplomat in late-Ottoman Cairo

uri

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/article/950483