Vanessa Guéno
Ingénieure de recherches à l'IREMAM (CNRS). Analyse de sources historiques et culturelles sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans.Responsable de la politique archivistique de l'IREMAM.Historian of the Ottoman Bilâd Ash Shâm.
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Since the 1980s, written documents generated by the Ottoman law courts constitute the single most frequently used primary source by historians of Ottoman Bilād al-Šām. The result is a large number of studies using many of these documents, usually from several different registers. Rarely, however, do the historians invite readers to share in a critical and focused discussion of a select few of these documentary sources. The contributors to this volume reveal the difficulties and questions they face in reading and interpreting handwritten documents, often carelessly recorded in a formulaic and elliptical language. The diverse studies collected here present a wide range of documents issued in legal practice, disclose the process of deciphering manuscripts, and set forth the differing readings and informal usages of this kind of source.
This symposium aims to bring together anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and historians to conduct a common discussion on these acts of “storytelling” of oneself, one’s family, one’s hometown, the revolution and the war whilst also examining events that took place recently, as well as further in time, made possible by the 2011 upheaval. The speakers are encouraged to shed light on the permanence of these narratives, their transformation and their reconfiguration since 2011. We wish to explore three thematics within our reflection, whilst also questioning the renewed relationship between researchers and their sources and methods.