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This collection of articles offers a different perspective on Middle Eastern history by focusing on the marginalized and oppressed groups rather than the elite. It covers a wide range of time periods and regions, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, and the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The articles examine the strategies of survival, negotiation, protest, and resistance used by these groups, including the working class, peasantry, urban poor, women, and marginalized groups such as gypsies and slaves. Inspired by European social historians and Antonio Gramsci, the collection aims to give a voice to these subaltern classes and uncover their role in shaping history.
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its geographical reach, including Iran, the Ottoman Empire/Turkey, the Balkans, the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The first to focus on the oppressed and the excluded, and their differing strategies of survival, of negotiation, and of protest and resistance, the book covers: both major social classes and sectors the working class the peasantry the urban poor women marginal groups such as gypsies and slaves Based on perspectives drawn from the work of the great European social historians, and particularly inspired by Antonio Gramsci, the collection seeks to restore a sense of historical agency to subaltern classes in the region, and to uncover 'the politics of the people'.
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