المعيار
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 658-665
2025-06-01
Arab Christians And The Writing Of Ottoman History, The Lebanese Historian Philip Hitti (1886- 1978) As A Model
Authors : Toumiat Abderrezak .
Abstract
In this Article, we point out the history of the Othman state through the historical schools of the East, and in this work we focused on the Levantine school, whose emergence was temporally linked to the 19th century in particular, while implicitly acknowledging that there are writings that preceded this era, but we cannot include them within the efforts of the aforementioned school. We focused on the 19th century because this period witnessed profound changes on various levels, and there appeared a kind of rejection of everything related to the Turks, and the reason for this is due to two factors: the first is related to the Othman policy in its eastern Arab provinces, which was characterized by severity and violence, and the second is related to Western interference in the affairs of the Ottoman state and its attempt to sever the connection between the Ara.bs and the Turks, through intellectual invasion in the first stage, and then in a second stage through the policy of conspiracies and secret agreements, in preparation for the colonial invasion (the mandate project) within arrangements during and after first World War. We chose the Lebanese thinker and historian Philip Hitti as a model for this work, and the reason for our choice of this figure is the abundance of his production related to the history of the Lev.ant in general, even though, he does not recognize the Ottoman rule from a historical point of view as an entity alien to the Arab region, which sought to highlight its civilizational importance within a clear national framework led by Arab Christians since the second half of the 19th century.
Keywords
The Eastern Historical School; Arab Christians; Ottoman History; Philip Hitti
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