Year | Event |
---|---|
1734 | Food riot in Damascus 1 |
1743 | Food riot in Damascus 2 |
1745 | Food riot in Damascus 3 |
1749 | Food riot in Damascus 4 |
1757–58 | Food riots in Damascus 5 |
1770 | Food riot in Aleppo 6 |
1790 | Food riots in Istanbul 7 |
1795-97 | Food riots in Istanbul 8 |
1806 | Food riot in Damascus (allegedly the first since 1758) 9 |
1807 | Food riots in Istanbul, leading to the dethronement of Selim III 10 |
1811 | (Fears of) food riots in Damascus 11 |
1813 | Female food riot in Acre 12 |
1832 | Rioting (demonstrations against high bread prices and theft) in Damascus 13 |
1840 | Food riot in Aleppo 14 |
1841 | Food riot in Aleppo 15 |
1856 | Food riot in Damascus 16 |
1860 | Violence and scarcity of food in Damascus (at least Mīdānīs rioted for food) 17, food riot in Aleppo 18 |
1877 | Riot for arrears in Damascus, famine, high bread prices 19. Food riot in Baghdad, high bread prices in 1877, Dec 20 |
1878 | Food riots in Damascus in 1878, Mar 21, in Baghdad in 1878, Jan 22, and in Jaffa 23 |
1879 | Food riots in Baghdad in 1879, Jun 24 |
1880, 1 Mar | Food riot in Beirut 25 |
1897 | Riot for arrears in Damascus, high bread prices 26 |
1906 | Female food riots in Tehran 27 |
1908 | Food riots in Beirut in 1908, 20 Aug 28 and Baghdad in 1908, Jun 29 |
1910 | Food riots in Aleppo, Hama, Homs, Damascus, Beirut 30 |
1910, Jun | Food riot in Aleppo |
1910, 2 Jul | Food riot in Damascus |
1910, 11 Aug | Food riot in Hama |
1910, 13 Aug | Food riot in Homs |
1913 | Food riot in Damascus 31 |
1914, 13 Oct | Food riot in Beirut 32 |
1916 | Food riots in Damascus 33 |
1917/18 | Hunger and famine in Bilād al-Shām |
1918, Mar | Food riots in Damascus in mid-March 34 |
1920 | Food riots in Hama in 1920, 1 Mar and Aleppo in 1920, 1 Oct. 35 |
1936 | Female riot in Beirut 36 |
1941-1943 | Hunger marches and food riots in Aleppo, Beirut, and Damascus 37 |
Sources:
9 James Grehan, "Street Violence and Social Imagination in Late-Mamluk and Ottoman Damascus (Ca. 1500-1800)," International Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (2003), James Grehan, Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-Century Damascus (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007):86–91, ; Dana Sajdi, "Peripheral Visions: The Worlds and Worldviews of Commoner Chroniclers in the 18th Century Ottoman Levant," (PhD diss., Columbia University, 2002):170 Grehan's data is mostly based on al-Budayrī and Burayk. Sajdi mentions only one, undated, bread riot based on al-Budayrī. 6 Jean-Pierre Thieck, "Décentralisation ottomane et affirmation urbaine à Alep à la fin du XVIIIème siècle," in Mouvements communautaires et Espaces urbains au Machreq (Beirut: CERMOC, 1985):§148 10 Yücel Yesilgöz and Frank Bovenkerk, "Urban Knights and Rebels in the Ottoman Empire," in Organised Crime in Europe: Concepts, Patterns and Control Policies in the European Union and Beyond, ed. Cyrill Fijnaut and Letizia Paoli (Dordrecht: Springer, 2004):211, {Ağır 2010@40 **not found** } 11 Thomas Philipp, Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001):124 12 Thomas Philipp, Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001):176 13 Johann Büssow and Khaled Safi, Damascus Affairs: Egyptian Rule in Syria Through the Eyes of an Anonymous Damascene Chronicler, 1831-1841 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2012):59–61 16 Moshe Ma'oz, Ottoman Reform in Syria and Palestine, 1840-1861 (Oxford, 1968):185 18 Linda Schatkowski Schilcher, Families in Politics: Damascene Factions and Estates of the 18th and 19th Centuries (Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden, 1985):98 34 My own research 27 Ervand Abrahamian, "The Crowd in the Persian Revolution," Iranian Studies 2, no. 4 (1969), Vanessa Martin, "Women and Popular Protest: Women's Demonstrations in Nineteenth-Century Iran," in Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Stephanie Cronin (London, New York: Routledge, 2008):50–66 35 Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000):21, James L. Gelvin, Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998):45 36 Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000):221 37 Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000):vi, 233–234, , , , with reference to Khoury, Syria and the French Mandate and Wilmington, Middle East Supply Centre, 25,127. 23 Johann Büssow, Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872–1908 (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011):224 20 Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978):470, ; , referencing French consular reports. 8 {Ağır 2010@38-39 **not found** }, referencing "BA, CB, 5243 and BA, HH, no. 10794A (1211) [1796-97] cited in Şaşmazer (2000: 117–18)" and "BA, HH. 55177 (1204) [1795], BA,CB, 5243 and BA, HH, no. 10794A (1211) [1796-97] cited in Thornton (2000: 117–18)". 7 , referencing "BBA, Ḫaṭṭ-ı Hümāyūn, no. 16066 (1204)", "BBA, Ḫaṭṭ-ı Hümāyūn, no. 55177 (1204), Cevdet, Tarih III, p. 1484, BBA, Cevdet-Belediye, no. 5243 (1210), BBA, Ḫaṭṭ-ı Hümāyūn, no. 10794A (1211)". 32 , referencing al-Ittiḥād al-ʿUthmānī "14 November 1915". 22 24 29