Title & Author:

The urban social history of the Middle East, 1750-1950 / edited by Peter Sluglett.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.

Description:

xiv, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-313) and index.
Interdependent spaces : relations between the city and the countryside in the nineteenth century / Sarah D. Shields -- Political relations between city and state in the Middle East, 1700-1850 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- The economic organization of cities in Ottoman Syria / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Political relations between city and state in the colonial period / Leila Fawaz and Robert Ilbert -- The demography of cities and the expansion of urban space / Bernard Hourcade -- Moving out of place : minorities in Middle Eastern urban societies, 1800-1914 / Gudrun Krämer -- Urban social movements, 1750-1950 / Sami Zubaida.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The great cities of the Middle East and North Africa have long attracted the attention and interest of historians. With the discovery and wider use over the last few decades of the Islamic court records and Ottoman administrative documents, our knowledge of Middle Eastern cities between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries has vastly expanded. Drawing upon a treasure trove of documents and using a variety of methodologies, the contributors succeed in providing a significant overview of the ways in which Middle Eastern cities can be studied, as well as an excellent introduction to current literature in the field. Islam has often been characterized as an "urban religion"; recognizing Islam's deep ties to civic matters and to the city itself, the essays gathered here explore the interconnectedness between religion and its geography. The authors effectively define and map out urban social history in the Middle East from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, affording us a foundational volume that enriches our understanding of society in the late Ottoman and colonial periods.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780815631941 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0815631944 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns Middle East History.
Urbanization Middle East History.
Cities and towns
Urbanization
Stadt
Stadt Naher Osten Geschichte Neuzeit.
Stadtbevölkerung Naher Osten Geschichte Neuzeit.
Stadtentwicklung Naher Osten Geschichte Neuzeit.
Stadt Staat Osmanisches Reich Geschichte Neuzeit.
Staat Stadt Osmanisches Reich Geschichte Neuzeit.
Urbanisering Mellanöstern.
Middle East History.
Moyen-Orient Histoire.
Middle East
Naher Osten
Mellanöstern socialhistoria.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Sluglett, Peter.
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260143
Call No.: BIB 191039
Status: Available