Upgrade?: Power and sound during Ramadan and ‘Id al-fitr in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Arab provinces

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Mestyan, A

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2019-06-05T15:22:45Z

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2019-06-05T15:22:45Z

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2017-01-01

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2019-06-05T15:22:42Z

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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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1089-201X

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1548-226X

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18633

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en

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Duke University Press

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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10.1215/1089201x-4132893

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Upgrade?: Power and sound during Ramadan and ‘Id al-fitr in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Arab provinces

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Journal article

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Mestyan, A|0000-0002-5945-6147

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262

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279

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2

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Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

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Duke

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History

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Published

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37

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