H2020Индивидуална стипендия2022–2025

EMStaD YEMEN · Early Modern State Development in Yemen

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2025-09-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 175 572 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Развитието на държавните институции в Йемен се анализира чрез взаимодействието между Зайдимския имамат и Османската империя през XVI-XVII век. Анализът на неизползвани ръкописи помага да се разберат политическата стабилност и социалната структура на елитите в региона.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Early Modern State Development in Yemen

The project addressed the development of state institutions and socio-political elites in Yemen in the early modern period. The main question of the project focused on the examination of reasons for resilience of the Zaydi imamate in Yemen and its transformations in light of its interactions with the Ottoman empire in the 16th-17th centuries. The project considered how the Zaydi imamate, a polity driven by a particular version of Shi'i Islam that stressed meritocratic rather than dynastic transfer of power, was able to stabilize its political system. Overall, the project examined the development of Yemen's political history in a connected perspective and stressed links and moments of dialogue between the Zaydis and their neighbours, especially Sunnis. It also examined the social structure of the political elite in the Zaydi imamate, paying special attention to descendants of the Prophet (sayyids) who traditionally held political power, their interactions with each other and Yemeni tribal groups. The project's methodological contribution was to build this analysis on a vast source base of manuscripts from Yemen that remain unedited and to bridge existing gaps between subfields of Yemeni studies.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

How do early modern states organize effective rule in difficult conditions? EMStaD YEMEN focuses on a country that due to its geographical, religious and social complexities is now considered a failed state – Yemen. The project analyzes how this state achieved stability in the early modern period in the conditions that were similar to those hampering its contemporary development. Scholarship on early modern Islamic history usually focuses on the great Islamic empires, like the Ottoman Empire, while the regions conquered by them, notably the Arab lands, are often viewed through the lens of ‘decline’. EMStaD YEMEN challenges this approach by bringing attention to Yemen as a unique case of an Arab state gaining independence from the Ottoman Empire. Combining understudied Ottoman Turkish and Classical Arabic manuscript sources with the method of comparative study of empires, the project focuses on the influence of the period of Ottoman rule (1535-1638) on the development of the state in Yemen. The project first identifies the innovations in administrative practices, document production, and public ceremonies that were introduced by the Ottoman administration. It then traces the afterlives of these developments during the post-Ottoman period of Yemen’s history. The goal of the project is twofold: (1) to explain how, despite the divisions that supposedly turned modern Yemen into a failed state, a stable political system existed in the region during in the early modern period; and (2) to bring Yemen into the broader context of early modern state transformations in Eurasia. The results of the project will be disseminated through publications for specialists and through an exhibition and blog posts for the general public. The longstanding tradition of Middle Eastern studies, regional expertise and wide variety of ongoing collaborative projects on the comparative study of empires make Leiden University and its Institute for Area Studies the ideal setting for this project.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · LeidenКоординаторНидерландия