Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. About this Book xiv
6. Foreword xviii
7. Part I Rogues in History
8. 1 Age of Rogues: Transgressive Politics at the Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire 1
9. 2 Gendered Narratives of Transgressive Politics: Recovering Revolutionary Rubina 53
10. 3 Caucasian Banditry in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Abrek Zelimkhan 83
11. 4 Racketeers in Politics: Theoretical Reflections on Strong-man Performances in Late Qajar Iran 120
12. Part II Rogues and Regimes
13. 5 Conspiracy under Trial: Christian Brigands, Rebels and Activists in Bosnia during the Tanzimat 149
14. 6 The Abode of Sedition: Resistance, Repression and Revolution in Sasun, 1891–1904 178
15. 7 Conspiracy, International Police Cooperation and the Fight against Anarchism in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1878–1908 208
16. 8 Between Ruler and Rogue: Sayyid Talib al-Naqib and the British in Early Twentieth-century Basra 235
17. Part III Rogue Trajectories
18. 9 Chemistry of Revolution: Naum Tyufekchiev and the Trajectories of Revolutionary Violence in the Late Ottoman Europe 259
19. 10 Late-Ottoman ‘Rogues’ and their Paths to Power: A Prosopographic Study 302
20. 11 A Man of the Frontier: Ramadan Shallash and the Making of the Post‑Ottoman Arab East 333
21. 12 The Last Ottoman Rogues: The Kurdish–Armenian Alliance in Syria and the New State System in the Interwar Middle East 355
22. Afterword 383
23. Index 390