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Transforming Damascus - Space and Modernity in an Islamic City (Hardcover)
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Transforming Damascus - Space and Modernity in an Islamic City (Hardcover)
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In 1860, Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening
Ottoman Empire, a city defined in terms of its relationship to the
holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic
knowledge. Yet by 1918 Damascus had become a seat of Arab
nationalism and a would-be modern state capital. How can this
metamorphosis be explained? Here Leila Hudson describes the
transformation of Damascus. Within a couple of generations the city
changed from little more than a way-station on the Islamic
pilgrimage routes that had defined the city's place for over a
millennium. Its citizens and notables now seized the opportunities
made available through transport technology on the eastern
Mediterranean coast and in the European economy. Shifts in marriage
patterns, class, education and power ensued. But just when the
city's destiny seemed irrevocably linked to the Mediterranean world
and economy, World War I literally starved the urban centre of
Damascus and empowered its Bedouin hinterland. The consequences
shaped Syria for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond.
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