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Spies, scandals, and sultans : Istanbul in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire : the first English translation of Egyptian Ibrahim al-Muwaylihi's Ma hanalik /
Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2008.
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| Colección: | New dialogues in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since 1896. The text of the Arabic original is prefaced with an extensive introduction in which the author's life is discussed and the highly controversial contents of the book are contextualized and evaluated for their accuracy against other contemporary accounts of life in the Ottoman capital. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781461643470 1461643473 1299805728 9781299805729 |