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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of a World City (editie 2016)

door Philip Mansel

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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.… (meer)
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Titel:Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of a World City
Auteurs:Philip Mansel
Info:London : I.B.Tauris: (2016) Hardback,xvi+250+2
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A very interesting overview of the history of a fascinating city. Made even better by the 15 chapters of travelers' reports from different eras. ( )
  MikeBott | Jan 23, 2020 |
Having expected so much more from a book with such a promising and timely title, I can only feel disappointed. "Not as advertised" is my verdict. The dust jacket and review spoke of "one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world...[inhabited by humans] since at least the fifth millennium BC" ... yet the 58-page summary only began with the (and I quote in the author's words) "more recent history" of the Ottoman Empire, devoting the remainder and bulk (3/4) of the book to 17-20C travel writers' excerpts, many of which I had already read as anyone interested in this title would have.

If you're looking for a true history of Aleppo, this isn't it. A more honest title would have been 17th-20th Century Travelers' Tales of Aleppo, with a forward by Philip Mansel. ( )
  pbjwelch | Jul 25, 2017 |
Terrible and a ripoff. The author gives us about 80 pages of history, which is none too good, and then gives us a lot of material from various diarists and others who have described the town. I thought that I had purchased a history of Aleppo which would go up to the present time, but the book is garbage. ( )
  annbury | Aug 19, 2016 |
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In 2010, Philip Mansel published Levant, a wide-ranging history of three Mediterranean cities: Alexandria, Beirut and Izmir. In that book, he identified common factors that made these cities distinctly Levantine, in particular diverse ethnicities and cultures, wide trade links and loose Ottoman control. He might have added Aleppo to the trio.

If he had written about Aleppo six years ago, he might have mentioned a spirit of optimism. Great efforts had been made to restore some of the fabric of the old city: the German non-governmental organisation GTZ, the architect Adli Qudsi, the Friends of Aleppo Citadel and many others were seeing to that. Experts from the Royal Academy had been trawling the city for potential loans for a Syria exhibition due to open in London in 2013. Many old houses were being restored – the shoe designer Christian Louboutin had bought one and the musician Julien Weiss was already installed in another – and some old municipal buildings were being turned into large hotels.
 
The key to the success of this book is Mansel’s detailed knowledge of the city and the sources that bring a real flavour of the centuries, going back to the early Ottoman period when a wide variety of nations maintained consulates in the city, and international merchant houses traded goods in one of the Middle East’s largest bazaars with miles of covered streets.
 
That doyen of writers on the Levant and mixed cities of the Middle East, Philip Mansel, has therefore written a timely book charting Aleppo’s history from the Ottoman era through to the present day, backed up by a second half of the book that is a collection of historic travel writings across four centuries by 15 noted visitors to the city, such as Jean Louis Burckhardt, Gertrude Bell and Leonard Woolley.

Remarkably, there seems to be so much more written in the past about Aleppo than in the modern era. Mansel’s book is one of the few devoted to it in English.

Even in Syria, under Hafez Al Assad, Syria’s second city was somewhat relegated to the background and woefully ignored, but in this century underwent a degree of a rebirth before its present reduction to near ruin. Many of the old houses had opened as hotels, and with the support of the Agha Khan Foundation and the German government parts of the Old City had been carefully and beautifully restored, albeit for a short-lived revival.

The focus of the book is unhesitatingly about the people of Aleppo, their lives, their trade and beliefs, and in no small part the city's rich links to the outside world. It is not a paean to the city's great architectural and cultural monuments, and this makes it a more lively, even more relevant, work.
 
This is an eloquently written book that at times reads like an elegy to Aleppo’s bazaars, embracing worldview and cultural diversity. Written by a scholar who is not only profoundly knowledgeable but who also sincerely cares about his subject, it is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about what we have lost.

Mansel invites his readers to consider a striking question: if a place as rich and diverse as this can be so quickly destroyed by fanaticism, could the cities in which they live be more vulnerable than they think? History does not progress in linear fashion; sometimes it draws circles or slides backwards. Those seeking to understand how this can happen — and it can happen anywhere — will find in Mansel’s book a powerful combination of research, knowledge, conscience and heart.
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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.

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