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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century

By: Dana Sajdi

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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century

By: Dana Sajdi

Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography of the period. For example, scholars argue that the janissary coffee house was used variously for such diverse means as headquarters for rebellion, a Sufi lodge, police station and racketeering office. 'Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee' offers a critical exploration of a range of definitive cultural phenomena of the Ottoman 18th century, including the coffee house, print culture, imperial architecture, royal pageantry and festivals. Chapters explore previously untouched subjects such as the changing forms of imperial ritual in Ottoman public circumcision celebrations as well as unravelling the historiography of the so-called 'Tulip Period'. This has traditionally been characterised by the construction and eventual destruction of the famed palace of Saadabad and the reputedly failed project of the first Ottoman printing press. The book reassesses these failures as reflective of the general ill-preparedness of the Ottoman public for enlightened reform. Most importantly this book rejects the prevailing view that the 18th century was in political and cultural decline, and argues in fact it was a period of cultural dynamism and change. 'Ottoman Tulips' breaks free of the twin teleologies of Ottoman decline and Western-induced change, reassessing the impact of Westernization and modernization in the 18th century and revealing comparisons and interactions between the Ottoman court and its Safavid counterpart.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715399

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9780857715395

The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

By: Dana Sajdi

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The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

By: Dana Sajdi

This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime. Dana Sajdi investigates the significance of this book, and in examining the life and work of Ibn Budayr, uncovers the emergence of a larger trend of history writing by unusual authors—people outside the learned establishment—and a new phenomenon: nouveau literacy. The Barber of Damascus offers the first full-length microhistory of an individual commoner in Ottoman and Islamic history. Contributing to Ottoman popular history, Arabic historiography, and the little-studied cultural history of the 18th century Levant, the volume also examines the reception of the barber's book a century later to explore connections between the 18th and the late 19th centuries and illuminates new paths leading to the Nahda, the Arab Renaissance.

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Stanford University Press

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0804788286

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9780804788281

The Barber of Damascus

Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

By: Dana Sajdi

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Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant

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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857731807

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Polishing the Turd

By: Dana Jolie

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Polishing the Turd

By: Dana Jolie

Polishing the Turd By: Dana Jolie Dana Jolie gives us a glimpse into his life with hilarious, but endearing stories from his youth and current day. Reading Jolie’s stories will remind his readers of hearing their own family’s stories passed down from generation to generation. Jolie’s puns and sarcastic, yet slapstick, humor will keep readers eager to turn the page and read another one of Jolie’s tales.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1480947024

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Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

The Barber of Damascus

The Barber of Damascus

The Barber of Damascus

The Barber of Damascus

Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee

Polishing the Turd

Polishing the Turd

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