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In Die Rifāīya Boris Liebrenz explores the book culture of Ottoman Syria (16th to 19th century), using the only surviving Damascene private library of the time as a vantage point. He asks about the production and transmission of knowledge as well as the social background of the reading audience in a manuscript age. Scholarship on Arabic libraries has often focussed on the medieval period and relied nearly exclusively on literary accounts. This is the first book-length study that focuses on a single region in the Ottoman period and systematically uses the vast number of surviving manuscripts as a documentary source by means of the notes left by their readers and possessors. Thus, it sheds light on the material, juridical, and social basis of book-ownership and reading-- Provided by Publisher.

Private libraries --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Book industries and trade --- Books and reading --- Marginalia --- History. --- Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig --- Damascus (Syria) --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Bibliothek. --- Book industries and trade. --- Books and reading. --- Lesekultur. --- Manuscripts, Arabic. --- Marginalia. --- Private libraries. --- Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig --- Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. --- Damaskus. --- Germany --- Islamic countries. --- Osmanisches Reich. --- Syria --- Syria. --- Arabic manuscripts --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book collectors --- Leipzig. --- Bibliotheca Albertina --- Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. --- Leipziger Universitätsbibliothek --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria)

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Stretching on either side of the road leading to the regions south of Damascus, the suburb of Mīdān owes its development in large part to the passage of the caravan of pilgrimages to the Holy Places of La Mekke and Medina and to the marketing of cereals from Ḥawrān and Biqā '. From the Mamluk era, several urban cores appeared in this peripheral space of Damascus; their growth, as well as the creation of housing estates and the multiplication of wheat warehouses along the road will participate, in the Ottoman era, in the constitution of the urban fabric of a large suburb. Through the chronicles, this one appears as the den of the local janissaries who, throughout this period, will oppose, in numerous and bloody conflicts, the imperial janissaries, installed in the citadel and the districts which are close to it . Analysis of the documents kept in the archives of the city's courts (acts of inheritance, real estate transactions, acts of purchase and rental in rural areas, acknowledgments of debts, etc.) completes the information drawn from these chronicles; it makes it possible to apprehend the various social groups which make up the population of this suburb and to locate them in the whole of Damascene society.

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) --- -Damascus (Syria) --- -Maydan (Damascus, Syria) --- -Maydān (Damascus, Syria) --- Damascus (Syria) --- Mīdān (Damascus, Syria) --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria) --- History --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) - History - 18th century --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) - History - 19th century --- Damascus (Syria) - History - 18th century --- Damascus (Syria) - History - 19th century --- espace urbain --- Syrie --- Empire ottoman --- Syrie médiévale --- faubourg --- Damas

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Comment un modeste quartier résidentiel, né à l’époque du Mandat français, est-il devenu un des centres de la vie intellectuelle et politique syrienne des années 1950-1960, puis un conservatoire de l’architecture et de l’espace urbains modernes ainsi que le principal lieu de commerces et de loisirs du centre ville de Damas ? Chaalan, quartier cosmopolite et espace de modernité sociale et architecturale dès sa formation, occupe en effet une place particulière dans l’évolution générale de la capitale syrienne. Cet ouvrage, résultat d’une recherche collective et pluridisciplinaire menée principalement entre 2005 et 2010 par une équipe franco-syrienne, propose de reconstituer l’histoire de ce « morceau de ville » en remontant dans la mémoire de ses familles fondatrices et de certains de ses habitants les plus anciens. Il propose aussi de rendre compte des principales mutations qu’a connues le quartier et de développer enfin une réflexion sur les notions de patrimoine habité et de patrimoine immatériel, réflexion qui pourrait permettre de répondre, en ces temps sombres que traverse la Syrie, à des questions comparables que posent aussi bien la préservation d’autres quartiers de Damas datant de la même époque que la reconstruction des villes syriennes affectées par la guerre.

Architecture --- Anthropology --- anthropologie --- ville --- villes du Proche-Orient --- urbanisme --- urbanisation --- Syrie --- Damas --- patrimoine urbain --- patrimoine architectural --- espace urbain --- espace social --- Espace commercial --- Mémoire --- tribu --- confédération --- bédouin --- architecture --- Damascus --- urbanism --- city --- Urban Heritage --- Urban Space --- Syria --- Architectural Heritage --- Trading Area --- Tribe --- Confederation --- Bedouin --- Memory --- Social Space --- سوريا --- سورية --- دمشق --- مدينة --- التراث العمراني --- التراث المعماري --- الفضاء العمراني --- الفضاء الاجتماعي --- الفضاء التجاري --- قبيلة --- عشيرة --- بدو --- الذاكرة --- Damascus (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- History. --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria)

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On 9 July 1860 CE, an outbreak of violence in the inner-city Christian quarter of Damascus created shock waves locally and internationally. This book provides a step-by-step presentation and reproduction of the facts to assess the true role of all the players and shapers of events. It critically examines the internal and external politico-socio-economic factors involved and argues that economic interests rather than religious fanaticism were the main causes for the riot of 1860. Furthermore, it argues that the riot was not a sudden eruption but rather a planned and organised affair.

Christianity and other religions --- Christianity. --- Christians --- Christians. --- Druzes --- Druzes. --- Ethnic relations. --- Interfaith relations. --- Islam --- Islam. --- Massacres --- Massacres. --- Religion. --- History --- Relations --- 1800-1899. --- Damascus (Syria) --- Lebanon --- Lebanon. --- Syria --- Turkey --- Turkey. --- History. --- Religion --- Ethnic relations --- Interfaith relations --- Damascus Riots, Damascus, Syria, 1860 --- Christianity --- Darazis --- Druse --- Druses --- Druz --- Druze --- Druzim --- Durūz --- Islamic sects --- Damascus Massacres, Damascus, Syria, 1860 --- Riots --- Religious adherents --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Minorities --- Race relations --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria)

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Histoire et présentation des richesses architecturales de la grande mosquée de Damas, édifiée par le sixième calife omeyyade, le conquérant al-Walid (705-715) sur l'emplacement d'un ancien temple païen. Les mosaïques qui en recouvrent les murs, en partie détruites par un incendie en 1893, comptent parmi les plus belles du monde.

Mosques --- Architecture, Medieval --- Islamic architecture --- Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria) --- Damascus (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc --- Islamic architecture - Jordan --- Architecture, Asian --- Religious institutions --- Arab architecture --- Architecture, Arab --- Architecture, Islamic --- Architecture, Moorish --- Architecture, Muslim --- Architecture, Saracenic --- Moorish architecture --- Muslim architecture --- Saracenic architecture --- Religious architecture --- Middle Ages --- Damascus (Syria). --- Omayyad Mosque (Damascus, Syria) --- Great Mosque (Damascus, Syria) --- Jāmiʻ al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria) --- Umayyad Mosque (Damascus, Syria) --- Jāmiʻ al-Umawī --- Great Omayyad Mosque (Damascus, Syria) --- جامع الأموي الكبير (Damascus, Syria) --- جامع الاموي الكبير --- Grande mosquée des Omeyyades (Damascus, Syria) --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Islamic architecture - Jordan. --- Mosques - Syria - Damascus --- Architecture, Medieval - Syria - Damascus --- Islamic architecture - Syria - Damascus --- Damascus (Syria) - Buildings, structures, etc