Under Ottoman rule, the city of Haifa, located at the southern point of the largest bay on the coast of what today is Israel, was transformed from a scarcely-inhabited fortress town to a major modern city. This book details the history of Haifa under the Ottomans during the period 1516-1918. Alex Carmel uses a variety of original sources to uncover the realities of life in Haifa under Ottoman rule and paints a vivid picture of the development of the city in this era. Carmel's work has become the benchmark of the historiography of Israel's third largest city and remains to this day, the best-known and most highly-regarded survey of Haifa under Ottoman rule. This, the first English edition of 'Ottoman Haifa', will be essential reading for all historians of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.
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Alex Carmel (1931-2002) was an historian of the Middle East, specialising in nineteenth-century Palestine. He joined the faculty of the University of Haifa in 1968 and was a visiting professor at the universities of Basle, Bern, Fribourg and the Free University of Berlin.
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Preface by Jakob Eisler
Introduction
Chapter I: Ancient Haifa after the Ottoman Conquest
- General description
- Mount Carmel
- The Carmelite Order
Chapter II: The Foundation of New Haifa Dahar al-Umar, the destruction of ancient Haifa
- New Haifa, its development and growth
- The fate of the Carmelites
Chapter III: Days of Awakening
- The Egyptian conquest
- Changes in the town's economic status
- The construction of the new Carmelites monastery
Chapter IV: The Period of Flourishing Progress
- Settling of the Germans
- The struggle between the Germans and the Carmelites
- The consolidation of the Jewish Community
- The Hejaz Railway and the port
Chapter V: Haifa at the End of Turkish Rule
- The town
- The population
- The town's status
Postscript: Haifa during the Great War
Bibliography
Index