Religion, Economy and State in Ottoman-Arab History is a selection of essays by Professor William Ochsenwald on the Arab history under the Ottoman rule. The Arabian territory was under the control of the Ottoman Empire from the 16th century until the early years of the 20th, which left an abundance of written documents not only in the Ottoman archives but also in the archives of the European states, such as Britain, which had political and economic relations with the Arabs and Ottomans. On the basis of his comprehensive research on these written evidences, Professor Ochsenwald presents a political history of the relations between the Ottomans and Arabs, together with an extensive economic, religious and social account of Arabia and its periphery. Moreover, interactions of Europeans and Ottoman-Arabs are discussed also including such controversial subjects as cultural conflicts, slavery, massacres and nationalism.
