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Intermediaries and Local Knowledge in a Changing Political Environment: Complaints from Libya at the Turn of the 20th Century

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2014
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Sievert, H. (2014). Intermediaries and Local Knowledge in a Changing Political Environment: Complaints from Libya at the Turn of the 20th Century. Die Welt Des Islam, 54(3–4), 322–362. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-05434P03

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As historiography on Ottoman Tripolitania and Benghazi focuses mainly on the Italian invasion and on the Sanūsiyya and pays little attention to Ottoman records, studies on political practice and change in that period are rare. However, the special circumstances of that remote and sparsely populated part of the empire enable us to focus on the role of intermediaries and complaints within the imperial framework. Complaints and related correspondence were crucial in the negotiation of order, both from the government’s and from the subjec

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  • Sievert, Henning

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54

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3-4

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322

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362

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Keywords

Ottoman Empire
, Libya
, complaints
, sociopolitical order
, cultural translation
, communication
, political language
, local knowledge
, intermediary
, legitimacy

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English

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2014

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2015-01-07

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0043-2539

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Sievert, H. (2014). Intermediaries and Local Knowledge in a Changing Political Environment: Complaints from Libya at the Turn of the 20th Century. Die Welt Des Islam, 54(3–4), 322–362. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-05434P03

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