Rifa\'at \'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a Modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia..
Rifa\'at \'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a Modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.