Author
Aymes, Marc(Author)
Publication Date
2025
Publication Place
Leiden ; Boston -
Brill
Subject
History. | Literature and Cultural Studies.
Type
Book
Language
English
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
600
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (600 pages) : illustrations.
Library
American Research Center in Egypt - ARCE
Library Asset ID
D410
Record ID
60744
Library Location
ARCE Library
Date
2025
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index. | Coins, notes, fats, oils, soda waters, teas and wines, dyes and medicines, diplomas, certificates, patents and titles... Fakes were everywhere in the late Ottoman world. Did anyone care? As this book shows, calls to "discriminate the true from the fake", a founding motto of philological practice from the 16th century onwards, prompted many encounters between forgers and bureaucrats in the late Ottoman world. Each tells a different story about how fakes occurred. Quoted and translated in full, reports of these forgery affairs shed new light on Ottoman state-society relations. They show that the taming of the fake has been crucial to the reforming of the state.
Sample Text
Coins, notes, fats, oils, soda waters, teas and wines, dyes and medicines, diplomas, certificates, patents and titles... Fakes were everywhere in the late Ottoman world. Did anyone care? As this book shows, calls to "discriminate the true from the fake", a founding motto of philological practice from the 16th century onwards, prompted many encounters between forgers and bureaucrats in the late Ottoman world. Each tells a different story about how fakes occurred. Quoted and translated in full, reports of these forgery affairs shed new light on Ottoman state-society relations. They show that the taming of the fake has been crucial to the reforming of the state.
Seri
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2024.Philological Encounters Monographs ;5.
