Histories of the Rural Middle East, 1850-1950: Report About a Joint One-Day Workshop of the ERC’s BORDERS and LOOP Projects, 16 June 2023

Soad Kilinç The focus of recent research in the last twenty years on the rural population and nomadic societies of the late Ottoman Empire has created new research perspectives in Middle Eastern Studies on the relationship between rural and urban populations, as well as between imperial centers and their rural peripheries. The population in the areas outside of the large and famous cities made up around 80% of the total population around 1900, but has remained largely invisible in historical...