Untold histories of the Middle East : recovering voices from the 19th and 20th centuries / edited by Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann and Selçuk Akşin Somel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [234]-249) and index.

Introduction : resounding silent voices / Selçuk Aksin Somel, Christoph K. Neumann, and Amy Singer -- Unraveling layers of gendered silencing : converted Armenian survivors of the 1915 catastrophe / Ayse Gül Altinay and Yektan Türkyilmaz -- Interfaith unions and non-Muslim wives in the early twentieth-century Alexandria Islamic courts / Hanan Kholoussy -- Silence of the pregnant bride : non-marital sex in Middle Eastern societies / Liat Kozma -- Silent voices within the elites : the social biography of a modern shaykh / Yoav Alon -- A nationalist discourse of heroism and treason : the construction of an "official" image of Çerkes Ethem (1886-1948) in Turkish historiography, and recent challenges / Bülent Bilmez -- On the margins of national historiography : the Greek Ittihatçi Emmanouil Emmanouilidis : opportunist or Ottoman patriot? / Vangelis Kechriotis -- Ottoman Empire's absent nineteenth century : autonomous subjects / Christine Philliou -- Looking behind Hajji Baba of Ispahan : the case of Mirza Abul Hasan Khan Ilchi Shirazi / Naghmeh Sohrabi -- Between the Balkan wars (1912-13) and the "Third Balkan War" of the 1990s : the memory of the Balkans in Arabic Writings / Eyal Ginio -- Courts of the Palestinian-Arab revolt, 1936-1939 / Mustafa Kabha -- Multiplicity or polarity : a discursive analysis of post-1908 violence in an Ottoman region / Meltem Toksöz.