Search Results - "Mestyán, Ádám"

The Probate Regime: Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and the Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Mestyan, Adam, Nori, Rezk

“…In this article, we explore the “probate regime,” an administrative field of government activity of legally transferring, taxing, and administering bequests…”
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Ignác Goldziher's Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by Mestyan, Adam

“…This paper contains the English translation of Ignác Goldziher's Hungarian essay Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Hungarian Academy of…”
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Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879 by Mestyan, Adam

“…Abstract This article argues that the microhistorical analysis of one specific industrial enterprise offers a useful perspective from which to study local…”
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Domestic Sovereignty, A‘yan Developmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt by Mestyan, Adam

“…Through a new type of global microhistory, this article explores the remaking of the political system in Egypt before colonialism. I argue that…”
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Domestic Sovereignty, A'yan Developmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt by Mestyan, Adam

“…Through a new type of global microhistory, this article explores the remaking of the political system in Egypt before colonialism. I argue that…”
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ARABIC THEATER IN EARLY KHEDIVIAL CULTURE, 1868–72: JAMES SANUA REVISITED by Mestyan, Adam

“…This article revisits the official culture of the early khedivate through a microhistory of the first modern Egyptian theater in Arabic. Based on archival…”
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Materials for a History of Hungarian Academic Orientalism: The Case of Gyula Germanus by Mestyan, Adam

“…This article provides materials for an institutional history of academic Hungarian Orientalism through the life of Gyula Germanus (1884-1979). Using hitherto…”
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Power and music in Cairo: Azbakiyya by MESTYAN, ADAM

“…In this article, the origins of the modern metropolis are reconsidered, using the example of Cairo within its Ottoman and global context. I argue that Cairo's…”
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ARABIC LEXICOGRAPHY AND EUROPEAN AESTHETICS: THE ORIGIN OF FANN by Mestyan, Adam

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Power and music in Cairo: Azbakiyya – ERRATUM by MESTYAN, ADAM

“…The editors regret that in the article by Mestyan (first published online, 24th May 2013) the dates provided for the captions for Figures 2 and 3 are…”
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Book reviews by Kádas, István, Gulyás, László Szabolcs, Mühle, Eduard, Galambosi, Péter, Fedeles, Tamás, Seláf, Levente, Szanto, Catherine, Martí, Tibor, Kożuchowski, Adam, Török, Borbála Zsuzsanna, Blumi, Isa, Mestyán, Ádám, Üngör, Uğur Ümit, Laczó, Ferenc, Révész, Tamás, Piahanaŭ, Aliaksandr, Crump, Laurien, Iacob, Bogdan C

“…Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Roman Zaoral. Medieval Visegrád: Archaeology, Art History and History of a Medieval…”
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The classical discovery of modern (book) history by Mestyan, Adam

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The classical discovery of modern (book) history: Rediscovering the Islamic classics: how editors and print culture transformed an intellectual tradition, by Ahmed El Shamsy, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020, 312 pp., £40.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780691174563 by Mestyan, Adam

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Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions by Mestyan, Adam

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Mediterraneans - North Africa and Europe in an age of migration, c. 1800-1900 by Mestyan, Adam

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Mediterranean Crossings/Mediterranean Passages by Mestyan, Adam

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Policing Egyptian Women - Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedivial Egypt by Mestyan, Adam

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