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MAMLUKS IN OTTOMAN TUNISIA: A CATEGORY CONNECTING STATE AND SOCIAL FORCES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2016

M'hamed Oualdi
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Abstract

This essay examines how administrative documents categorized the mamluks who served Ottoman governors of Tunis from the early 18th to the mid-19th century. The categorization of these state slaves-cum-servants illuminates three issues, namely, the relationships between Islamic states and societies, interactions between the Ottoman Empire and its provinces, and forms of military slavery around the globe. Seeing registers, letters, and historical chronicles as spaces of interaction allows us to break free from an a priori definition of mamluks. By exploring how slaves and servants contributed to defining themselves in administrative documents, I not only argue for a new understanding of the mamluk category, but also show that mamluks did not separate state and society. On the contrary, in the Tunisian case, mamluks connected the state to various imperial and provincial social forces.

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elitesmamluksOttoman historyslaverysocial history
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , August 2016 , pp. 473 - 490
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Author's note: I thank the following people whose comments, questions, and corrections were crucial to improving this article: the anonymous IJMES reviewers, Michael Cook, Cyrus Schayegh, Muriam Haleh Davis, Marius Hentea, Kate Epstein, William Blair, and Nilüfer Hatemi. This article was written with the support of Princeton University and the École française de Rome. I presented an earlier version of it at the History Department Colloquium convened by Laura Lee Downs and Luca Molà in December 2015 at the European University Institute (Florence).

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