The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Magrhib / edited by Susan Slyomovics.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2001.
Description
165 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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    Series
    Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world [More in this series]
    Notes
    This group of studies first appeared in a Special Issue on 'The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history : the living Medina in the Maghrib' of The Journal of North African Studies (ISSN 1362-9387) 5/4 (Winter 2000).
    Contents
    • Orientalism as irony in Gérard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient / James E. Housefield
    • Watering the garden of Tangier : colonial contestations in a Moroccan city / Susan Gilson Miller
    • The social context of working equines in the urban Middle East : the example of Fez Medina / Diana K. Davis and Denys Frappier
    • The role of the Medinas in the reconstruction of Algerian culture and identity / Djilali Sari
    • Geographies of Jewish Tlemcen / Susan Slyomovics
    • Neighbourhood notes : texture and streetscape in the Médina of Tunis / Justin McGuinness
    • Preservation and self-absorption : Italian colonisation and the walled city of Tripoli, Libya / Mia Fuller.
    Other title(s)
    Journal of North African studies. 5/4 (Winter 2000)
    ISBN
    • 071465177X (hard)
    • 0714682152 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    2001002361
    OCLC
    50737005
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