Upgrade?: Power and sound during Ramadan and ‘Id al-fitr in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Arab provinces
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© 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. What was the effect of new
technologies and urbanization on these Muslim practices in their relationship to politics
and the new public spaces? Building on recent scholarship, Mestyan argues that these
were reconstituted as part of symbolic politics and served as a test period for using
new technologies to synchronize collective action. He explores this process by historicizing
the relationship between power and sound during Ramadan.
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10.1215/1089201x-4132893Publication Info
(2017). 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, 37(2). pp. 262-279. 10.1215/1089201x-4132893. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18633.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Adam Mestyan
Associate Professor of History
Adam Mestyan researches and teaches the history of empire and subordinated states
in the Arabic-speaking world. He is most interested in devising new analytical categories
to describe temporal change. His current research interest centers on the relationship
between nature, Islamic law, taxation, and state formation in the twentieth century.
He is now writing an environmental history of Cairo.His previous works in cultural
and political history include <a href="https://press.
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