Outside in : on the margins of the modern Middle East / edited by Eugene Rogan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rogan, Eugene, 1960-

European Science Foundation.

Series:

Islamic Mediterranean ; 3.

The Islamic Mediterranean ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Middle East.

Marginality, Social.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

vii, 263 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; Strasbourg, France : In association with the European Science Foundation ; New York : In the United States distributed by Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

The contributors to this book explore the boundaries of what constituted marginality in the eastern Mediterranean and how the notion of marginality changed with time. The essays view the individual in the context of his or her society within a specific time frame. With studies in Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Ottoman Istanbul, and Salonica, the collection covers the breadth of the Mediterranean Muslim world. Most of the essays concentrate on the 19th and 20th centuries, and are organized around four broad themes: prohibitions, institutions, port cities, and performers.

Contents:

Ottomans and drinkers : the consumption of alcohol in Istanbul in the nineteenth century / François Georgeon

Prisons and mMarginalisation in nineteenth-century Egypt / Rudolph Peters

Getting into the shelter of Takiyat Tulun / Mine Ener

Prostitution in Egypt in the nineteenth century / Khaled Fahmy

Madness and marginality : the advent of the psychiatric asylum in Egypt and Lebanon / Eugene Rogan

Migrants and workers in an Ottoman port : Ottoman Salonica in the eighteenth century / Eyal Ginio

Marginality and migration : Europe's social outcasts in pre-colonial Tunisia, 1830-81 / Julia Clancy-Smith

Public morality and marginality in fin-de-siècle Beirut / Jens Hanssen

Entertainers in Baghdad, 1900-50 / Sami Zubaida

Shifting narratives on marginality : female entertainers in twentieth-century Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1860646980

OCLC:

46694287