Author
Ibrahim, Nasir Ahmed
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 0570-1716, EISSN: 2429-2850, DOI: 10.4000/anisl.2019
Record ID
cdi_cleo_primary_oai_revues_org_anisl_2019
Library Location
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Notes
The study of coffee is among the main topics included in what has become known as the “history of stimuli,” which addresses one of the forgotten or neglected aspects of modern social history. This historical field does not deal with stimulants as a material commodity, a mood or a luxury, but rather views them as a cultural practice that carries a symbolic and moral value that expresses some factors of prestige and class distinction. Within the framework of this methodology, the focus of this study is to analyze the etiquette and rituals that were woven around the coffee drink in Egypt during the Ottoman era, and to understand the reason for its conditional connection with the urban elite group, which was used as a means of expressing one of the aspects of prestige and its distinctive social status: Coffee did not operate in a social or historical vacuum, but it fulfilled, to varying degrees, basic needs that expressed an aspect of the culture of consumption and how to push it towards the center of social life: What are the special etiquettes and rituals that were associated with this social drink, and what What is the significance of its association with the culture of palaces and the homes of wealthy notables? In a different form: Was the “idea of rituals and the creation of traditions” around a (new) consumer item such as coffee - at that time - limited to the elite group, or was it an open field shared by all social groups to different degrees, each according to his social position, material circumstances, and cultural composition?
Görüntüle
Annales islamologiques, 2015, p.217-247
