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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Dating -- 1.Beirut, City of the Levant -- 2.The Global Intimacies of Taste -- 3.Home Is Where the Investment Is -- 4.Things at Home -- 5.A Matter of Taste -- 6.Local Forms and Ifranji Pleasures -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

AbstractThis article deals with the material aspects of the late Ottoman home in Beirut, focusing on the notion of taste (dhawq) and its role in constructing class boundaries. It looks at how intellectuals used taste to articulate a prescriptive middle-class domesticity revolving around the woman as manager of the house and privileging moderation and authenticity in consumption habits. Rather than take such tastes as representative of actual consumption habits of an emerging middle class, and arguing for an approach that goes beyond taste as a construct, the article investigates the potentiality of new objects for subverting the existing social order. Based on a marital-conflict case brought to the Hanafi court, the article explores how one such object, a phonograph, opened interpretive possibilities in the gendered rigidity of court procedures.

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume 3 analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context.