Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Mansel, Philip

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784534615)

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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Mansel, Philip

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

$55.00
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City by Mansel, Philip

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

$55.00
Format: Hardcover
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'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them, Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world - successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time.
In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel vividly describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria's civil war.

Author: Philip Mansel
ISBN-10: 1784534617
ISBN-13: 9781784534615
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.00d

By Philip Mansel
By Philip Mansel
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Philip Mansel is a historian of France and the Middle East. He has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and often visited Aleppo. In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent publication is The Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon (2015). Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City is his third book on cosmopolitan cities of the Middle East, after Constantinople: City of the World's Desire (1995), on Istanbul, and Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), on Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut.

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