Adam Mestyan. Arab Patriotism
The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9496552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wilson Chacko Jacob (Concordia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1435-1436 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhy176 |
| OpenAlex | W2895630962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In 1829, Sultan Mahmud II issued a clothing law for the Ottoman Empire. It required most state officials to dress in European-style clothes and to wear the fez, rather than the venerable turban—Ottoman naval officers had picked up a habit of wearing the former after returning to Istanbul from the western Mediterranean a few years prior. Historians tend to regard this move as a step in the direction of massively reorganizing and rationalizing the Ottoman state during the official Tanzimat period (1839–1876). I recounted in my earlier work a much less noted episode of sartorial politics from the end of the same century, which also featured an intimate exchange between the eastern and western Mediterranean. In this case, the young Egyptian nationalist Mustafa Kamil reported an unsettling encounter he had had with Algerians at the Lyon International and Colonial Exhibition in the summer of 1894. These men, dressed in native garb and playing at guarding the Algerian pavilion of a typical world exhibition, questioned Kamil about the Egyptians of his class who had taken to mimicking European dress in their own land. They left him literally speechless.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Clothing · Colonialism · Exhibition · Nationalism · Patriotism · Pavilion · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · Classics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |