It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look more closely, they can tell us much more tha...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643383)
It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look more closely, they can tell us much more than...Loe edasi...
Twilight of the Saints takes readers to Ottoman Syria and Palestine and offers a new interpretation of the religious history of the region. James Grehan looks past Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and uncovers a common folk religiosity which has lar...Loe edasi...
Sari: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295999906)
Damascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the citys dazzling literary tradition-a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical dictionaries-as well as on Islamic court records, James...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2014, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199373031)
In this study of everyday religious culture in early modern Syria and Palestine, James Grehan offers a social historythat looks beyond conventional ways of thinking about religion in the Middle East. The most common narratives about the region in...Loe edasi...
Sari: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2007, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295986760)
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Urban dwellers in general were anomalous in the 18th-century Arab world and even in Syria, where most people lived in villages in the countryside, says Grehan (history, Portland State U.), and Damascus, though one of the largest cities in the Arab pr...Loe edasi...
