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 cri...

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