{"id":355,"date":"2020-05-05T14:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/?p=355"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T13:42:37","slug":"nora-lafi-presents-a-working-paper-on-%ef%bb%bfdaily-life-spatialities-of-religiosity-in-ottoman-tunis-reflections-on-the-complexity-of-urban-religious-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/2020\/05\/05\/nora-lafi-presents-a-working-paper-on-%ef%bb%bfdaily-life-spatialities-of-religiosity-in-ottoman-tunis-reflections-on-the-complexity-of-urban-religious-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nora Lafi presents a working paper on ‚\ufeffDaily Life Spatialities of Religiosity in Ottoman Tunis: Reflections on the Complexity of Urban Religious Landscapes‘"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 26, 1861, chronicler\nAhmed Ibn Ab\u00ee Dhiy\u00e2f reported, an angry crowd of protesters gathered inside the\nEzzituna Mosque of Tunis. They were upset against the consequences of the\nmodernizing reforms of the local government in this Ottoman province and of\npressures by foreign consuls. The gathering then evolved into a street\ndemonstration that took the direction of the Palace of the Bardo, the residence\nof the Bey outside of the city walls. What could be interpreted as the mere\nprotest of a group of conservative religious notables against modernity and its\nambiguities, in fact hides numerous layers of complexity that involve the\nrelationship between space and religiosity. The demonstrators, indeed, did not\ndirectly walk to the Bardo. Before exiting the city walls, they stopped at a\nmausoleum dedicated to a local saint, Sidi Mahres (951-1022), patron of the\ncity since the middle-ages. Passing through this place meant for the protesters\nthat their demonstration had acquired a religious, but also civic, legitimacy\nand force. Demonstrators grabbed symbols of the saint, among which his banners,\nthat they carried in the demonstration. After the failure of a negotiation in\nfront of the palace, they broke the banners of the saint. It meant that a riot\ncould start. It is the object of this presentation in the colloquium to\ninvestigate these dimensions of complexity in the relationship between space,\nsociety and religiosity. Using the concept of religious landscape and\nreflecting on methodology in urban history as well as on the notion of longue\ndur\u00e9e<\/em>, Nora Lafi analyses how the spatiality and nature of everyday life popular\nreligiosity in Tunis, that also included forms of devotion common to Jews and\nMuslims and had some specific feminine declensions, invites to nuance ideas of\nidentity and religion as blocks. What this presentation suggests, with an\nattention to the inertia of deep forms of religiosity and to notions like negotiation,\nmediation and accommodation, is to revise the very definition of urbanity and\nto see logics of spatialization of the self as more complex than the mere\nprojection onto the urban space of pre-defined identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On September 26, 1861, chronicler Ahmed Ibn Ab\u00ee Dhiy\u00e2f reported, an angry crowd of protesters gathered inside the Ezzituna Mosque of Tunis. They were upset against the consequences of the modernizing reforms of the local government in this Ottoman province and of pressures by foreign consuls. The gathering then evolved into a street demonstration that … „Nora Lafi presents a working paper on ‚\ufeffDaily Life Spatialities of Religiosity in Ottoman Tunis: Reflections on the Complexity of Urban Religious Landscapes‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[413,408,412,407,410],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}