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Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus
Damascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the city's dazzling literary tradition-a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical dictionaries-as well as on Islamic court records, James Grehan explores the material culture of premodern Damascus, reconstructing the economic infrastructure, social customs, and private consumer habits that dominated this cosmopolitan hub in the 1700s. He sketches a lively history of diet, furniture, fashion, and other aspects of daily life, providing an unusual and intimate account of the choices, constraints, and compromises that defined consumer behavior. Coffee, tobacco, and light firearms had arisen a...
Chaalan
Comment un modeste quartier résidentiel, né à l’époque du Mandat français, est-il devenu un des centres de la vie intellectuelle et politique syrienne des années 1950-1960, puis un conservatoire de l’architecture et de l’espace urbains modernes ainsi que le principal lieu de commerces et de loisirs du centre ville de Damas ? Chaalan, quartier cosmopolite et espace de modernité sociale et architecturale dès sa formation, occupe en effet une place particulière dans l’évolution générale de la capitale syrienne. Cet ouvrage, résultat d’une recherche collective et pluridisciplinaire menée principalement entre 2005 et 2010 par une équipe franco-syrienne, propose de reconst...
La réforme agraire dans la Ghouta de Damas
Thèse de troisième cycle soutenue en 1980, cette étude monographique porte sur la réalisation dans l’oasis de Damas de la grande réforme agraire qui a eu lieu en Syrie à partir de la fin des années 1950. Anne-Marie Bianquis commence par présenter des données générales sur cette région agricole (éléments physiques, paysage, aménagements hydrauliques, peuplement, structures agraires) pour ensuite retracer son histoire et celle de la Syrie depuis la fin de l’Empire ottoman. Son travail se concentre ensuite sur la législation de la réforme agraire dans ses diverses étapes ainsi que ses phases successives et ses applications dans l’oasis. Se fondant sur une documentation p...
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
This first of the ultimately three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism
This study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the process, provides a fascinating interpretation of the rise of the ideology of nationalism within the Arab world. The book focuses on the social and political life of the great notable families of Ottoman Damascus, who, before World War I, played a crucial part in translating the idea into political action.
Authoritarianism in Syria
For almost forty years Syria has been ruled by a populist authoritarian regime under the Ba'th Party, led since 1970 by President Hafiz al-Asad. The durability and resilience of this regime is a striking contrast to the instability and intense social conflict that preceded the Bath's seizure of power, when Syria was seen as among the least stable of Arab states. This dramatic transition raises questions about how the Ba'th succeeded in constructing the institutions needed to consolidate a radically populist and authoritarian system of rule. The Ba'th's accomplishment also poses a significant theoretical challenge to the widely held view that populist strategies of state building are inherent...
The Image Of An Ottoman City
This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city's evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting.
Occupying Syria Under the French Mandate
1. Rethinking colinial violence 2. The architecture of the colonial state 3. Political rationalities of violence 4. Time, science and space 5. Rebel movements and the great revolt 6. Urban planning, hygiene and counter-insurgency 7. Nomad space: securing the desert.
Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period
Moving from tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders.
