Ordering Imperial Worlds

From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1787-4 (ISBN)

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Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies.

A volume of original essays by 10 preeminent scholars invited 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, the nuclear site.

Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. Her works include The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Epic Poet in Performance (1988); The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998); Women and Power in the Middle East (co-editor, 2001); The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (editor, 2001); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005); How to Accept German Reparations (2014); and Race, Trace, Place: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe (co-editor, 2022).

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Engaging the Work of Zeynep Çelik
Part 1: Unbounded Methodologies
Susan Slyomovics, Unbounded Methodologies

Zeynep Çelik, Whose Modernity? Whose Imperial Order? Jerusalem between the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early British Mandate
Jerrilynn Dodds, Architecture, Conversion and Projection in Colonial Castile
Julia Clancy-Smith, Navigations: Re-Imagining North Africa in the Mediterranean, c. 1750 – 1900
Heghnar Watenpaugh, Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: Urban Histories of Aleppo During the French Mandate

Part 2: Variations on Late Ottoman Culture
Susan Slyomovics, Variations on Late Ottoman Culture

Selim Kuru, An Atlas of Desire: Enderunlu Fazıl’s View of the World from the late 18th Century
Nicolas Dufetel, European Musicians at the Sultan Court (1599-1846): Diplomacy and Fantasy from an English Organ to the Forty French Singers’ Ottoman Odyssey
Edhem Eldem, Les costumes populaires de la Turquie, Once Again

Part 3: Chronologies and Spaces of Containment
Susan Slyomovics, Chronologies and Spaces of Containment

Burçak Özlüdil Altin, Crossing Paths: Medical Journeys, Imperial Surveys
Marc André, Segregating Space, Integrating Time: Architecture and Memory in a French Political Prison
Samia Henni, Toxifying the Sahara: France’s Atomic Built Environments

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	14 black and white illustrations, 49 colour illustrations, 2 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-3995-1787-2 / 1399517872
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-1787-4 / 9781399517874
Zustand	Neuware