Ordering Imperial Worlds : : From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East / / ed. by Susan Slyomovics.

• HerausgeberIn: Slyomovics, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations 49 colour illustrations 2 B/W tables 65 illustrations (16 b/w and 49 colour)

Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologiesAn edited volume that provides architectural, literary, historical and visual analysesA strong focus on interpreting archivesA work of comparative cultural studiesEach chapter opens an original and critical perspective, the book coalescing into a wealth of new ways of thinking about the history of the Islamic worldRepresents new developments in theories of empireDiscusses cases from medieval Spain, Ottoman Empire, colonial North Africa, and France and Algeria based on primary sourcesThis volume of original essays invites 10 preeminent scholars to think through a rich corpus on cities, empires, images and archaeological sites produced by the distinguished architectural historian Zeynep Çelik. Awarded the prestigious 2019 Giorgio Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies by the University of California, the occasion allowed researchers from various universities, countries and disciplines to reflect on her rich body of work. Inspired by Çelik's works, chapters travel between Muslim and Christian Spain, the Ottoman Empire and France, Europe and its overseas empire in North Africa, and more.Combining social, cultural and urban history as well as visual studies and collective political memory, scholars from Turkey, France, Algeria and the US chart detailed studies of Muslim-Christian art, Ottoman music, art and literature, and cross-Mediterranean sites of containment such as the prison, the asylum and the nuclear site.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction: Engaging the Work of Zeynep Çelik -- Part 1 Unbounded Methodologies -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Overlapping Modernities: Jerusalem between the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early British Mandate -- 2 The Virgin as Colonial Agent -- 3 Shipwrecks and Navigations: North Africa in the Eighteenthcentury Mediterranean through the Chronicle and Life of Muhammad al-Saghir ibn Yusuf, c. 1693-1771 -- 4 Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Urban Histories of Aleppo during the French Mandate -- Part 2 Variations on Late Ottoman Culture -- Part 2 Introduction -- 5 An Atlas of Desire: Enderunlu Fazıl's View of the World from the Late Eighteenth Century -- 6 European Musicians at the Sultan's Court (1599-1846): Diplomacy and Fantasy from an English Organ to the Forty French Singers' Ottoman Odyssey -- 7 Les Costumes populaires de la Turquie, Once Again -- Part 3 Chronologies and Spaces of Containment -- Part 3 Introduction -- 8 Crossing Paths: Lucien Libert's Medical Journey to the Orient -- 9 Carceral Experiences and the Transmission of Memory in a French Political Prison: Montluc, between the Second World War and the Algerian War of Independence -- 10 Toxifying the Sahara: On France's Atomic Built Environments -- Index