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As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark

by Avner Wishnitzer

In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating and vivid picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities shows that the night in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for economic, criminal, political, devotional and leisurely purs

Publisher

University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781108832144