Asad Rustum and the Egyptian Occupation of Syria (1831–1841): Between Narratives of Modernity and Documentary Exactitude

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2021-07-07 DOI:10.1163/24519197-bja10021
P. Hill
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The Lebanese historian Asad Rustum (1897–1965) devoted much of his career to the study of Ottoman Syria in the early nineteenth century. For him, this history culminated in the dramatic events of 1840–41, when a Lebanese armed uprising against an Egyptian occupation, combined with European intervention, triggered far-reaching changes in the region’s politics. This article explores how Rustum’s accounts of the Egyptian occupation period and its end refract the complexities of that moment itself, through the dilemmas of a self-consciously professional historian working under the French Mandate and in early independent Lebanon. By comparing his histories of the Egyptian occupation with both his documentary collections and his own private archive held at AUB, this article reveals the complexities, achievements and limits of Rustum’s historical method. Above all, it argues, Rustum’s desire to narrate Lebano-Syrian modernisation was held in check—paradoxically perhaps—by his conviction of his own modernity.
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阿萨德·鲁斯图姆与埃及占领叙利亚(1831–1841):在现代性叙述与纪实精确之间
黎巴嫩历史学家阿萨德·鲁斯图姆(Asad Rustum,1897-1965)在其职业生涯的大部分时间都致力于研究19世纪初的奥斯曼叙利亚。对他来说,这段历史在1840-41年的戏剧性事件中达到了顶峰,当时黎巴嫩武装起义反对埃及占领,加上欧洲的干预,引发了该地区政治的深远变化。这篇文章探讨了鲁斯图姆对埃及占领时期及其结束的描述如何折射出那一时刻本身的复杂性,通过一位在法国委任统治下和早期独立的黎巴嫩工作的自觉专业历史学家的困境。通过将他对埃及占领的历史与他的文献收藏和他在AUB保存的私人档案进行比较,本文揭示了鲁斯图姆历史方法的复杂性、成就和局限性。它认为,最重要的是,鲁斯图姆讲述勒巴诺叙利亚现代化的愿望受到了他对自己现代性的信念的制约——也许是矛盾的。
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