Browsing by Author "Mestyan, A"
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Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016)
(The Hungarian Historical Review, 2017) -
Arabic theater in early khedivial culture, 1868-72: James Sanua revisited
(International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2014-02-01)This article revisits the official culture of the early khedivate through a microhistory of the first modern Egyptian theater in Arabic. Based on archival research, it aims at a recalibration of recent scholarship by showing ... -
Digital source imperialism and the Arab world
(2016)The term “digital imperialism” has been commonly used to describe cases where digital products transform social customs, but I use the term “digital source imperialism” here to refer to those who seek to control or monopolize ... -
Domestic Sovereignty, A‘yan Developmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2018) -
Erratum: Power and music in Cairo: Azbakiyya (Urban History (2013))
(Urban History, 2013-11-01) -
Global Ottoman: The Cairo-Istanbul Axis
(2017)What does the Ottoman framework mean for urban historians of the Arab world and in particular of Egypt? -
“I Have To Disguise Myself”: Orientalism, Gyula Germanus, and pilgrimage as cultural capital, 1935–1965
(The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire, 2016-11)The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ... -
Ignác Goldziher's report on the books brought from the orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Journal of Semitic Studies, 2015-01-01)© The author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester. All rights reserved.This paper contains the English translation of Ignác Goldziher's Hungarian essay Report on the Books Brought ... -
Materials for a history of Hungarian academic orientalism: The case of Gyula Germanus
(Welt des Islams, 2014-01-01)This article provides materials for an institutional history of academic Hungarian Orientalism through the life of Gyula Germanus (1884-1979). Using hitherto unexploited archives, this text explores his education, integration ... -
“Muḥammad Yūsuf Najm – A Maker of the Nahḍa”
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Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r.1805-1848)
(Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II – The Time of Joseph Haydn. From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), 2014) -
The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>In this article, we explore the “probate regime,” an administrative field of government activity of legally transferring, taxing, and administering bequests. As an example, we ... -
Upgrade?: Power and sound during Ramadan and ‘Id al-fitr in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Arab provinces
(Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2017-01-01)© 2017 by Duke University Press. This essay focuses on the month of Ramadan and its end celebration, ‘Id al-Fitr, the Festival of Breaking the Fast, in the Ottoman Arab provinces in the second half of the nineteenth century. ...
