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Transforming Damascus - Space and Modernity in an Islamic City

English · Hardback

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Klappentext In 1860! Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire! a city defined in terms of its relationship to the holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic knowledge. This book describes the transformation of Damascus. Zusammenfassung In 1860, Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire, a city defined in terms of its relationship to the holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic knowledge. This book describes the transformation of Damascus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents1. Topography, Capital Flows and Production of Space2. On Political Capital 1860-1880: Imperial Reform and Publicness3. Datamining the Sharia Archives: Sketches of a Changing City4. On Money and Goods: 19th Century Patterns of Liquidity5. On Human Capital: The Reproduction of Family and the Production of Class6. On Intellectual Capital: The Sufi Lense for Reform7. On Political Capital 1897-1913: Roads to Sovereignties8. Crisis in the System: Reorienting Damascus

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Authors Leila Hudson
Publisher Tauris, I.B.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 06.08.2008
 
EAN 9781845115791
ISBN 978-1-84511-579-1
No. of pages 200
Series Library of Middle East History
Library of Middle East History
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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