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THE OTTOMAN CITY BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
ALEPPO, IZMIR, AND ISTANBUL |
By: |
Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, Bruce Alan Masters |
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Paperback |

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£38.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521673542 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521673549 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
16 April, 2005 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization |
Pages: |
264 |
Description: |
A pioneering challenge to the orientalist perception of the Islamic city. |
Synopsis: |
Studies of early-modern Islamic cities have stressed the atypical or the idiosyncratic. This bias derives largely from orientalist presumptions that they were in some way substandard or deviant. The first purpose of this volume is to normalize Ottoman cities, to demonstrate how, on the one hand, they resembled cities generally and how, on the other, their specific histories individualized them. The second purpose is to challenge the previous literature and to negotiate an agenda for future study. By considering the narrative histories of Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul, the book offers a departure from the piecemeal methods of previous studies, emphasizing their importance during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and highlighting their essentially Ottoman character. While the essays provide an overall view, each can be approached separately. Their exploration of the sources and the agendas of those who have conditioned scholarly understanding of these cities will make them essential student reading. |
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6 b/w illus. 3 maps |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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