(Reposted from H-Islamart) New Publication – Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new volume, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, with Indiana University Press.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman

Part I: Picturing Knowledge
1. Well-Worn Fashions: Repetition and Authenticity in Late Ottoman Costume Books, by Ünver Rüstem
2. Osman Hamdi and the Long Duration of History, by Gülru Çakmak
3. Picturing Knowledge: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Periodicals, by Hala Auji
4. The Muybridge Albums in Istanbul: Photography as Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire, by Emily Neumeier

Part II: Conceptualizing Craft
5. The Double Bind of Craft Fidelity: Moroccan Ceramics on the Eve of the French Protectorate, by Margaret S. Graves
6. The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Damascus, by Marcus Milwright
7. The Turn to Tapestry: Islamic Textiles and Women Artists in Tunis, by Jessica Gerschultz

Part III: Aesthetics of Infrastructure
8. Alabaster and Albumen: Photographs of the Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Making of a Modern Icon, by Alex Dika Seggerman
9. Tents and Trains: Mobilizing Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Ashley Dimmig
10. Precious Metal: The I-Beam in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Peter Christensen
11. November 1869: The Suez Canal Inauguration, by David J. Roxburgh

Timeline
Glossary
Index

282 Pages, 145 color illus., available in paperback, eBook, and hardcover.

To receive a 30% discount enter code SAVE30 at the IUP Website:
https://iupress.org/9780253060341/making-modernity-in-the-islamic-mediterranean/

Margaret S. Graves
marggrav@iu.edu
Department of Art History, Indiana University

Alex Dika Seggerman
alex.seggerman@rutgers.edu
Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Rutgers University-Newark