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A Global Middle East : Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857725110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Global Middle EastDDC classification:
  • 956.02
LOC classification:
  • DS62.7 -- .G563 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer -- Global networks, local networking -- 1. On scales and spaces: Reading Gottlieb Schumacher's The Jaulân (1888) Cyrus Schayegh -- 2. The Emir and the sea: The rise and fall of 'Abdullāhi Muhammad b. 'Alī Abdaššakūr, Harär's last emir (1885-1887) Avishai Ben-Dror -- People on the move -- 3. Education and mobility: Universities in Cairo between competition and standardisation 1900-1950 Valeska Huber -- 4. International migration and sex work in early twentieth-century Cairo Francesca Biancani -- 5. Jews on the move during the late Ottoman period: Trends and some problems Yaron Ben-Naeh -- A short piece -- 6. Global migration into late Ottoman Jaffa as reflected in the Arab-Palestinian newspaper Filastīn (1911-1913) Evelin Dierauff -- Objects and related practices on the move -- 7. Papers for going, papers for staying: Identification and subject formation in the Eastern Mediterranean Will Hanley -- 8. Travelling substances and their human carriers: Hashish-trafficking in Mandatory Palestine Haggai Ram -- 9. On the diffusion of 'small' western technologies and consumer goods in the Middle East during the era of the first modern globalization Uri M. Kupferschmidt -- A short piece -- 10. Bees on camels: Technologies of movement in late Ottoman Palestine Tamar Novick -- Ideas on the move -- 11. Re-imagining Islam in the period of the first modern globalization: Muhammad 'Abduh and his Theology of Unity Johann Buessow -- 12. New practices: Arab printing, publishing and mass reading Ami Ayalon -- Short pieces -- 13. The movement of feminist ideas: The case of Kadinlar Dünyasi Elife Biçer-Deveci.
14. Religion in motion and the essence of Islam: Manifestations of the global in Muhammad 'Abduh's response to Farah Antūn Joachim Langner -- Index.
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Liat Kozma, Cyrus Schayegh and Avner Wishnitzer -- Global networks, local networking -- 1. On scales and spaces: Reading Gottlieb Schumacher's The Jaulân (1888) Cyrus Schayegh -- 2. The Emir and the sea: The rise and fall of 'Abdullāhi Muhammad b. 'Alī Abdaššakūr, Harär's last emir (1885-1887) Avishai Ben-Dror -- People on the move -- 3. Education and mobility: Universities in Cairo between competition and standardisation 1900-1950 Valeska Huber -- 4. International migration and sex work in early twentieth-century Cairo Francesca Biancani -- 5. Jews on the move during the late Ottoman period: Trends and some problems Yaron Ben-Naeh -- A short piece -- 6. Global migration into late Ottoman Jaffa as reflected in the Arab-Palestinian newspaper Filastīn (1911-1913) Evelin Dierauff -- Objects and related practices on the move -- 7. Papers for going, papers for staying: Identification and subject formation in the Eastern Mediterranean Will Hanley -- 8. Travelling substances and their human carriers: Hashish-trafficking in Mandatory Palestine Haggai Ram -- 9. On the diffusion of 'small' western technologies and consumer goods in the Middle East during the era of the first modern globalization Uri M. Kupferschmidt -- A short piece -- 10. Bees on camels: Technologies of movement in late Ottoman Palestine Tamar Novick -- Ideas on the move -- 11. Re-imagining Islam in the period of the first modern globalization: Muhammad 'Abduh and his Theology of Unity Johann Buessow -- 12. New practices: Arab printing, publishing and mass reading Ami Ayalon -- Short pieces -- 13. The movement of feminist ideas: The case of Kadinlar Dünyasi Elife Biçer-Deveci.

14. Religion in motion and the essence of Islam: Manifestations of the global in Muhammad 'Abduh's response to Farah Antūn Joachim Langner -- Index.

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