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Publications of Adam Mestyan    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Mestyan, A, Arab Patriotism - The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (2017), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691172644  [abs]
  2. Mestyan, A, Modern Arab Kingship Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (August, 2023), Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691190976  [abs]

Journal Articles

  1. Mestyan, A, ARABIC LEXICOGRAPHY AND EUROPEAN AESTHETICS: THE ORIGIN OF FANN, Muqarnas Online, vol. 28 no. 1 (2011), pp. 69-100, Brill [doi]
  2. Mestyan, A, Erratum: Power and music in Cairo: Azbakiyya (Urban History (2013)), Urban History, vol. 40 no. 4 (November, 2013), pp. 705, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Mestyan, A, Materials for a history of Hungarian academic orientalism: The case of Gyula Germanus, Welt des Islams, vol. 54 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 4-33, BRILL [doi]  [abs]
  4. Mestyan, A, Arabic theater in early khedivial culture, 1868-72: James Sanua revisited, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 46 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 117-137, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
  5. Mestyan, A, Ignác Goldziher's report on the books brought from the orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Journal of Semitic Studies, vol. 60 no. 2 (July, 2015), pp. 443-480, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
  6. Mestyan, A; Volait, M, Affairisme dynastique et dandysme au Caire vers 1900: Le Club des Princes et la formation d’un quartier du divertissement rue ʿImād al-Dīn, Annales Islamologiques, vol. 50 (2016), pp. 55-106, IFAO - Institut français d'archéologie orientale
  7. Mestyan, A, “Muḥammad Yūsuf Najm – A Maker of the Nahḍa”, Al-Abhath, vol. 64 (October, 2016), pp. 97-118, American University of Beirut
  8. Mestyan, A; Volait, M, Affairisme dynastique et dandysme au Caire vers 1900, Annales islamologiques no. 50 (October, 2016), pp. 55-106, OpenEdition [doi]
  9. Mestyan, A, "Upgrade? Power and Sound during Ramadan and ‘Id al-Fitr in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Arab Provinces", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 37 no. 2 (2017), pp. 262-279, Duke University Press [doi]  [abs]
  10. Mestyan, A, Arab Patriotism (May, 2017), Princeton University Press [doi]  [abs]
  11. Mestyan, A, Domestic Sovereignty, A‘yan Developmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 60 no. 2 (2018), pp. 415-445, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
  12. Mestyan, A, Pious Endowments: Land and Women in Late Ottoman Egypt: Reading the Grand Muftī’s Opinions from 1848‒1849, The Arabist, vol. 41 (2020), pp. 85-100
  13. Mestyan, A, Seeing like a khedivate: Taxing endowed agricultural land, proofs of ownership, and the land administration in Egypt, 1869, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 63 no. 5-6 (January, 2020), pp. 743-787, Brill [doi]  [abs]
  14. Mestyan, A, A Muslim Dualism? Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Thought, 1867-1921, Contemporary European History, vol. 30 no. 4 (November, 2021), pp. 478-496 [doi]  [abs]
  15. Mestyan, A, From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930, Journal of Global History, vol. 17 no. 2 (2022), pp. 292-311, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
  16. Mestyan, A; Schwartz, KA, An Egyptian Shaykh's Literary World, 1870: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salama al-Najjari's Books, Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, vol. 9 no. 2 (September, 2022), pp. 85-90
  17. Mestyan, A, “Land Privatization in Islamic Law? The Case of Irsad in Egypt, 1850-1950”, The Arabist, vol. 44 (November, 2022), pp. 87-104
  18. Mestyan, A; Nori, R, The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Law and History Review, vol. 40 no. 4 (November, 2022), pp. 597-624, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]

Papers Published

  1. Mestyan, A, From Private Entertainment to Public Education ?, in Oper im Wandel der Gesellschaft (December, 2010), pp. 263-276, Böhlau Verlag [doi]
  2. Mestyan, A, Cultural Policy in the Late Ottoman Empire? The Palace and the Public Theatres in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul, in Kulturpolitik und Theatre - Die kontinentalen Imperien in Europa im Vergleich (2012), Böhlau
  3. Mestyan, A, Cultural Policy in the Late Ottoman Empire ?, in Kulturpolitik und Theater (December, 2012), pp. 127-150, Böhlau Verlag [doi]
  4. Mestyan, A, Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r.1805-1848), in Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II – The Time of Joseph Haydn. From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), edited by Hüttler, M; Weidinger, H (2014), pp. 539-564, Hollitzer
  5. Mestyan, A, Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r.1805-1848), in Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II – The Time of Joseph Haydn. From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), edited by Hüttler, M; Weidinger, H (2014), Hollitzer
  6. Mestyan, A, “I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935–1965, in The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire (November, 2016), pp. 217-239, Brill, ISBN 9789004323346 [doi]  [abs]
  7. Mestyan, A, The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire, in The Global Bourgeoisie The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire, edited by DeJung, C; Osterhammel, J; Motadel, D (December, 2019), pp. 207-228, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691177342
  8. Mestyan, A, Hārūn Al-Rašīd, the Arabian Nights, and Politics on the Arabic Stage, 1850s–1920s, in The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science, edited by Granara, W; Akel, I (May, 2020), pp. 175-197, Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-42895-9

Book Reviews

  1. Mestyan, A, Review of "Liat Kozma: Policing Egyptian Women - Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedivial Egypt", British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2013)
  2. Mestyan, A, Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016), The Hungarian Historical Review, vol. 6 no. 1 (2017), pp. 243-246
  3. Mestyan, A, Matthew Ellis, Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2018). Pp. 280. $65.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781503605008, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 51 no. 2 (2019), pp. 325-327, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  4. Mestyan, A, Daniel A. Stolz. The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt. (Science in History.) xiv + 316 pp., figs., tables, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. £75 (cloth). ISBN 9781107196339., Isis, vol. 110 no. 3 (September, 2019), pp. 633-634, University of Chicago Press [doi]

Occasional Writing

  1. Mestyan, A, Khedive, Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE (2020), pp. 70-71, Brill [doi]
  2. Mestyan, A, Fu'ad I, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three (2023), pp. 22-24, Brill [doi]

Other

  1. Mestyan, A; Grallert, T, Project Jara'id (2012)
  2. Mestyan, A, Digital source imperialism and the Arab world (2016), Mada Misr  [abs]
  3. Mestyan, A, Global Ottoman: The Cairo-Istanbul Axis (2017), Global Urban History  [abs]
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