Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890 Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform

The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London,...

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Language:English
Published: Brill 2021
Series:Leiden Studies in Islam and Society
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