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Article: In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class. Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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In Praise of Books: A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By NELLY HANNA. Syracuse: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003. Pp. viii, 219. $19.95 (paper).
In In Praise of Books Nelly Hanna artfully addresses intersections of the educational, literary, cultural, and economic history of Ottoman Cairo, while positing a series of new approaches to these subjects and to Ottoman history in general. She asserts that Ottomanists have tended to focus their energies on Istanbul, Anatolia, and the Balkans, to the point that the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire have been relatively neglected and not well integrated into the ...