STORIA DEI PAESI DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA E DEL MEDIO ORIENTE

The first module of the course focuses on the general definitions of the history of the Islamic Mediterranean world in the first centuries of its formation, and on the main historical stages of the affirmation of Islam (as a space at the same time religious and political) in this area. It aims to define and analyze the characteristics of the main socio-political institutions belonging to the Islamic world (Caliphate, Imamate, sultanate, Shari’a) in their specificity and in their confrontation with the political and statual institutions in Europe.

The second module is dedicated to the events of the territories of the Islamic Mediterranean world during the progressive affirmation of the Ottoman state, in particular from the apogee of the empire to its dissolution. Starting from the history of some specific institutions of the Ottoman state, the attempts of Reform and modernisation (tanzimat) during the XIXth and XXth centuries will be in particular examined and discussed.

The third module is dedicated to the history of the formation of the state framework that emerges in the Middle East and North Africa area in the period of imperialism, from the nineteenth century to the Second World War, and more later to the analysis of the processes leading to national independences. A particular emphasis is put on the international agreements that lead to the partition of the territories of the Ottoman Empire between the European powers and the evolution of the question of Palestine between the two world wars, as well as on the process of formation of independent states and on their different institutional forms.

H. Halm, L’islam, Laterza, Roma 2003 [Bibl. del Dipartimento: AA.6.468]
Documenti :
- La costituzione di Medina (testo e commento in G. Gabrieli, Maometto, De Agostini, Padova 1989)
- Documenti sulle forme istituzionali dello stato islamico dalle origini all’inizio dell’età moderna da siti elettronici
- Schede documentarie e bibliografiche da Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Leiden-Paris 1954-2005
- Cartografia storica da opere a stampa e da siti elettronici (in particolare: Atlante Storico, Atlasmundi.com)

S.J. Shaw, L’impero ottomano e la Turchia moderna, in G.E. von Grunebaum, L’Islamismo. Dalla caduta di Costantinopoli ai nostri giorni, Storia Universale Feltrinelli, vol. 15, Milano 1972, pp. 21-146, con una particolare attenzione al par. VI, Rinascita e riforma (1789- 1914), pp. 114-146
[Bibl. del Dipartimento: AA.1.9/15]

M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza (Quadrante Laterza 176), Roma 2012, dal. cap. I al cap. V, pp. 3-170

Documenti:
- Documenti sugli accordi internazionali relativi alla spartizione del Medio Oriente e sulla questione palestinese da siti elettronici e da N.M. Toraldo Serra, Diplomazia dell’imperialismo e questione orientale, vol. I., Bulzoni, Roma 1988, appendice (pp. 240-293), documenti scelti
- Schede documentarie e bibliografiche da Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Leiden-Paris 1954-2005
- Cartografia storica da opere a stampa e da siti elettronici (in particolare: Atlante Storico, Atlasmundi.com; Atlante storico del Medio Oriente, “Limes” 2007 e Limesonline. )