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1 online resource (666 pages) |
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Culture and Civilization in the Middle East |
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Culture and civilisation in the Middle East.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: Western travel writing and the city in the Muslim world; 1. Mobile urbanism: Tent cities in medieval travel writing; 2. Understanding the city through travellers' tales: Cairo as seen and experienced by two fourteenth-century Italians; 3. Where is the "greatest city in the East"? The Mughal city of Lahore in European travel accounts (1556-1648); 4. The image of the city: Public baths and urban space in Western travellers' descriptions of Ottoman Sofia |
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5. Cultural encounters between Europeans and Arabs: Carsten Niebuhr's reflections on cities of the Islamic world (1761-67)6. Western eyes on Jannina: Foreign narratives of a city recorded in texts and images (1788-1822); 7. Single p(a)lace, multiple narratives: The Topkapı Palace in Western travel accounts from the eighteenth to the twentieth century; 8. Tensions and interactions: Muslim, Christian and Jewish towns in Palestine through European travellers' accounts (eighteenth-twentieth century); 9. In and out of the frame: Finnish painters discovering Tunisia |
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10. "The Orient veneered in the Occident": Naserid Tehran in the eyes of European travellers11. No place for a tourist: Imagining Fez in the Burton Holmes travelogue; 12. A challenge to the West: British views of republican Ankara; Index |
| Summary |
Presenting a critical, yet innovative, perspective on the cultural interactions between the ""East"" and the ""West"", this book questions the role of travel in the production of knowledge and in the construction of the idea of the ""Islamic city"". This volume brings together authors from various disciplines, questioning the role of Western travel writing in the production of knowledge about the East, particularly focusing on the cities of the Muslim world. Instead of concentrating on a specific era, chapters span the Medieval and Modern eras in order to present the transformation of both the |
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Print version record |
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City and town life -- Islamic countries -- History
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East and West.
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Islamic cities and towns -- History -- Sources
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Islamic cities and towns -- History
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Travel writing -- Western countries -- History
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Travelers' writings.
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travel literature.
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City and town life
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East and West
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Islamic cities and towns
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Travel
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Travel writing
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Travelers' writings
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Islamic countries -- Description and travel
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Islamic countries
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Western countries
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History
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Sources
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ozlu, Nilay
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| ISBN |
9781317548218 |
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1317548213 |
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