Constitutionalism Unbound

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Iran: Histories and Perspectives

 Denis Hermann and Erdal Kaynar

Part 1: Conceptualizing Constitutionalism: (Re-)Imagining Politics

1 Who Can Participate in the Shūrā? Non-Muslims in the First Parliaments of Tunisia, the Ottoman Empire and Iran, 1861–1911

 Anne-Laure Dupont

2 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi and Arabic Constitutionalism

 Peter Hill

3 The Nation Against the Sultan: Constitutionalist Thought in the Writings of the Young Turk Leader Ahmed Rıza

 Erdal Kaynar

4 Democracy by Petition: the Popular Committees and What Made the Iranian Constitutionalism Unique

 Nader Sohrabi

Part 2: Constructing Constitutionalism: Ideas, Actors, and Networks

5 Armenian Constitutionalism in the Late Ottoman Empire: the View from a Province

 Varak Ketsemanian

6 The Iranian Constitution in the Mirror of the Russian Azerbaijani Press

 Zaur Gasimov

7 Progressive Conservatives? The Young Turk Lectures on Constitutional Law

 Nobuyoshi Fujinami

8 Constitutionalism and the Political Ethos of the Last Qajars

 Alisa Shablovskaia

9 Constitutional Authority and Shiʿi Political Culture: the Mobilisation of Messianic Logic by the Ulama during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution

 Denis Hermann

Part 3: Enacting Constitutionalism: the Challenge of Constitutional Rule

10 From Trusting to Cunning: Shifting Relations between Armenian Political Figures and Ḥasan Taqīzādeh during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)

 Houri Berberian

11 Crafting the Image of Constitutionalism: the Phenomenon of Bast in Turn-of-the-Century Iran and the Visualization of Protest

 Mira Xenia Schwerda

12 Coal Heavers’ Strike of 1910 in the Ottoman Capital: Labor Activism and Socialist Politics in the Second Constitutional Era

 Yaşar Tolga Cora

13 A Shift in Law-Making: Ottoman Constitutionalism Facing the Local in Rumelia

 Barış Zeren

Index