Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East

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Susan Slyomovics (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles)

Ordering Imperial Worlds

From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East

Susan Slyomovics (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles)

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Edinburgh University Press
08 December 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; History of architecture; European history; Middle Eastern history; Islam

A volume of original essays by 10 preeminent scholars invited to think through a rich corpus on cities, empires, images, and archaeological sites produced by the distinguished architectural historian Zeynep elik. Awarded the prestigious 2019 Giorgio Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies by the University of California, the occasion allowed researchers from various universities, countries and disciplines to reflect on her rich body of work. Inspired by elik's works, chapters travel between Muslim and Christian Spain, the Ottoman Empire and France, Europe and its overseas empire in North Africa, and more. Combining social, cultural and urban history as well as visual studies and collective political memory, scholars from Turkey, France, Algeria and the US chart detailed studies of Muslim-Christian art, Ottoman music, art and literature, and cross-Mediterranean sites of containment such as the prison, the asylum, the nuclear site.

Edited by: Susan Slyomovics (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures University of California Los Angeles)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399517874
ISBN 10: 1399517872
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 08 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California Los Angeles. Her works include The Merchant of Art: An Egyptian Hilali Epic Poet in Performance (1988); The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998); Women and Power in the Middle East (co-editor, 2001); The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (editor, 2001); The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005); How to Accept German Reparations (2014); and Race, Trace, Place: Essays in Honour of Patrick Wolfe (co-editor, 2022).