Rethinking the ?Islamic City? from the Perspective of Jewish Space

Gottreich, Emily Benichou

doi:10.2979/jss.2004.11.1.118

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The Islamic City Critique: Revising the Narrative

Aldous¹

2013

J Econ Soc Hist Orient

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In recent years scholars have challenged the concept of an Islamic city by constructing a historical narrative in which it derives from the orientalist tradition. They claim that French orientalists in the early twentieth century created an ideal type of the Islamic city as contrasted with its Western counterpart in order to support the assumptions of orientalist discourse. The first part of the anicle challenges this assumption by showing that the French orientalists did not in fact posit an Islamic city type. The second part offers an alternative explanation for the genesis of the concept by tracing it to the work of American anthropologists in the 1950s.

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