Çiçek, M. Talha. Negotiating Empire in the Middle East: Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 280 Page. ISBN 9781316518083.

Abstract

M. Talha Çiçek's Negotiating Empire in the Middle East discusses the changing relationships between the Ottoman imperial administration and the Shammar and the Anizah tribal confederations, in the regions of today’s Iraq, Syria, Arabia, and Jordan, between the Tanzimat Era and the WWI. The book is an essential addition filling several scholarly gaps in the writing of the Ottoman Middle East's social history, the history of the Tanzimat Reforms across the Empire, and that of the Arab Tribal communities, commonly known today as the Bedouin communities.