The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in late nineteenth-century Damascus

Marcus Charles Plowman Milwright

The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in late nineteenth-century Damascus

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Abstract

An examination of an Arabic dictionary of the crafts of Damascus written c. 1890-1908. The chapter looks at the extent to which its presentation of information relates to concepts of modernity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
Editors	Margaret Graves, Alex Seggerman
Place of Publication	Bloomington
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Pages	139–54
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9780253060365
ISBN (Print)	9780253060341
Publication status	Published - 2022

Bibliographical note

Marcus Milwright, ‘The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in late nineteenth-century Damascus,’ in Margaret Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman, eds, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022), pp. 139–54.

Keywords

Crafts
Modernity
Syria
dictionary

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