[Book Review]: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire"

dc.authorid0000-0001-7529-3387
dc.authorwosidAAE-5045-2019
dc.contributor.authorHossain, Mohammad
dc.contributor.otherMedeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-04T06:23:00Z
dc.date.available2023-01-04T06:23:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİHÜ, Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
dc.description.abstractRivers of the Sultan, a finalist for the 2022 George Perkins Marsh Prize awarded by the American Society for Environmental History, was written by Faisal Husain, an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire with a geographical focus on its Eastern provinces in Anatolia and Iraq. The book examines the role the Tigris and Euphrates played in the establishment of Ottoman state institutions within the river basin between the 16th and 18th centuries and is among the latest in a line of works aimed at exploring the early modern Ottoman Empire along the intersections of environmental, political, and economic histories. Going beyond environmental aspects of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, Husain tries to incorporate environmental history into the larger tapestry of the history of Ottoman Iraq. In this respect, he aims to offer a new interpretation of how an instance of river avulsion in the Euphrates upset the political balance in Ottoman Iraq at the turn of the 18th century, culminating in the weakening of Istanbul’s influence and strengthening the regional Pashalik administration’s hold on Baghdad (p. 143)...
dc.identifier.citationHossain, M. (2022). [Book Review]: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire, By Faisal Husain, Oxford University Press, 2021, 264 pp." İnsan & Toplum - The Journal of Humanity & Society, 12(3), 242-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.12658/D0326
dc.identifier.doi10.12658/D0326
dc.identifier.endpage245
dc.identifier.issn2146-7099
dc.identifier.issn2602-2745
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.startpage242
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.12658/D0326
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/1956
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000890073900013
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.institutionauthorHossain, Mohammad
dc.institutionauthorid0000-0001-7529-3387
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherİlmi Etüdler Derneği
dc.relation.ispartofİnsan & Toplum - The Journal of Humanity & Society
dc.relation.publicationcategoryDiğer
dc.relation.publicationcategoryÖğrenci
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectReview
dc.subjectOttoman Empire
dc.subjectRivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire
dc.title[Book Review]: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire"
dc.typeBook Review
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