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… knot of Mohammedans in gold-embroidered jackets and voluminous “fustanelles' are standing just outside the great double gates leading to the courtyard of one of the richest aghas in …

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Development vs. reform: attempts at modernisation during the twilight of british influence in Iraq, 1946–58

This study analyses British and local Iraqi elites’ efforts to avoid social revolution through promotion of economic development during the last years of the Iraqi monarchy. Discussing the …

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In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker

… Hence, Meeker was able to detect the legacy of the pre-Tanzimat “time of aghas” in the actual business and political relations of the 1940s to 1960s. He saw the continuity between the …

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From ally to foe: The Iraqi Communist Party and the Kurdish question, 1958–1975

… new regime launched an agrarian reform that upstaged power relations in the countryside, thereby setting once powerful but now dispossessed rural landlords, shaykhs and aghas in …

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Between being 'Irticaci'and 'Kafir': the Kurdish Ulama, Shayhks and Kurdish historiography

This article engages with Kurdish ulamas’ and shaykhs’ relatively unknown narratives on manipulative shaykhs as a legitimate part of the story of Kurdish national history. The criticism …

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Eunuchs and the City: Residences and Real Estate Owned by Court Eunuchs in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul

This article explores how the Ottoman court eunuchs engaged with the topography and population of Istanbul by examining the urban residences and other real estate endowed in the …

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The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Iraq and its Implications

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A Farcical Moment? Nabulsi Exceptionalism and the 1908 Ottoman Revolution.

… The Nimrs were a patrician family of tax farming aghas in Syria and Palestine and one of the most prominent clans of tax farmers (multazimin) in the Nablus region. Ihsan’s great …

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Slaves and slave traders in the Persian Gulf, 18th and 19th centuries: An assessment

… In 1751, the EIC agent in Basra reported that Sulaiman Pasha's general punished the headmen or aghasof Basra by destroying their ship, the Menoy, and by taking the 'old men, …