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Author Slyomovics, Susan

Title The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History : the Living Medina in the Maghrib
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (173 pages)
Series History and Society in the Islamic World
History and society in the Islamic world.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Orientalism as Irony in Gerard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient; Watering the Garden of Tangier: Colonial Contestations in a Moroccan City; The Social Context of Working Equines in the Urban Middle East: The Example of Fez Medina; The Role of the Medinas in the Reconstruction of Algerian Culture and Identity; Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen; Neighbourhood Notes: Texture and Streetscape in the Medina of Tunis; Preservation and Self-Absorption: Italian Colonisation and the Walled City of Tripoli, Libya; Abstracts; Index
Summary This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space. They shed light on recent studies by anthr
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Subject Islamic cities and towns -- Africa, North -- History
Cities and towns -- Africa, North -- History
Architecture and society -- Africa, North -- History
Sociology, Urban.
Islamic architecture -- Africa, North.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Architecture and society
Cities and towns
Islamic architecture
Islamic cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
SUBJECT Tangier (Morocco) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015571
Tunis (Tunisia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79065310
Tlemcen (Algeria) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85128040
Subject North Africa
Algeria -- Tlemcen
Morocco -- Tangier
Tunisia -- Tunis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135281267
1135281262