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Leor Halevi

    Modern Things on Trial
    • 2021

      Modern Things on Trial

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam's material transformation in a globalizing era.

      Modern Things on Trial