Title:	The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777–1814
Authors:	Asma, Moalla
Keywords:	Army and government of a North-African Ottoman eyålet at the end of the eighteenth century
Issue Date:	2004
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the Husaynid pasha-bey Óamm≠da (1777–1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. The research thus initiates a systematic revision of a major thesis that has prevailed in the body of contemporary research on the Tunisian Regency. This book claims that the latter’s administrative and political evolution, from the end of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, was a process of gradual and irreversible emancipation from the influence and authority of the central Ottoman state. The neglect of the links between Tunis and Istanbul in that historiography has been paralleled, on the Ottomanists’ side, by the virtual exclusion of the Maghrib Regencies from the scope of research on the Empire. This present book fits an emerging t
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6928
ISBN:	0-203-98722-5
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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