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2 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.632
- isbn: 9782869062030
- eisbn: 9782869063280
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Abdul-Karim Rafeq, « Diversion and Pleasure in Damascus During the Ottoman Period », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.632
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Amid political and social turmoil, oppression, profiteering, recurrent natural calamities and abuse of Islamic and Ottoman laws by rulers and laymen alike, what sort of diversions and pleasures, one might ask, did the Syrian people engage in? Local chroniclers and foreign travelers who described the misery of the people also described the types of pleasures they engaged in. The cumulative effect of oppression is that it widened the gap between the rulers and the ruled and perverted the people...