This book offers a look at the city of jerusalem and its administrative district (mutasarrıflık) in the early years of the twentieth century through the eyes of its rulers, the Ottomans. It is based on official and private papers left us by Ali Ekrem Bey, who was Ottoman governor of the district of Jerusalem from December 1906 to August 1908, a very crucial time in the history of Palestine and the history of the Ottoman Empire as a whole. It was this governor's fate to serve in Jerusalem during the end of Sultan Abdülhamid II's reign as well as during the first few weeks of the new Young Turk regime which followed. Both Abdülhamid and the Young Turks had to cope with the growing threats to the territorial integritiy and the very existence of the Empire stemming from outside European encroachment and from separatist movements within. Both sought, in diffrent ways and, as it turned out in the end, unsuccesfully, to save it from final collapse. The challenge was felt well is Palestine, too, and particularly in its most important district, Jerusalem. European powers had long established their "presence" in the land, and some of them were positioning themselves for a possible division of the spoils once the Empire could ill afford. By the end of World War I, and the final demise of the Ottoman Empire, Palestine was indeed to pass on to new rulers, the British, and begin a new phase in its history, marked by a bitter struggle between two nationalist movements.

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