Daily Life Spatialities and Temporalities of Religion in Ottoman Tunis : Reflections on the Complexity of Urban Religious Landscapes

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Lafi, Nora:
Daily Life Spatialities and Temporalities of Religion in Ottoman Tunis : Reflections on the Complexity of Urban Religious Landscapes.
In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte. Bd. 25 (2023) Heft 1 . - S. 309-333.
ISSN 1868-8888
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/arege-2023-0015

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Abstract

The methodological approach chosen for this study, that examines situations of the nineteenth century in the mirror of longue durée considerations, pertains to a vision of urban history inspired by the historical anthropology of space (Schmitt 2008), by the historical anthropology of urban time (Grossin 1974; Dubar 2014) and by the micro-study of daily life practices (Carlotti 1989; Lepetit 1993; P ispisa 2004;Revel 2011; Salvati 2008). The period under consideration belongs to the Ottoman era in Tunisia, that began in the sixteenth century and ended with French colonization in 1881.
The posture of this research is also inspired by the method and tradition of Alltagsgeschichte (Ludtke 1995). Studying daily life (Freitag and Lafi 2011) is intended, in contrast to mechanist interpretations, as a way to unearth traces of spatialized practices of religion or of elements pertaining to religiosity under diverse temporalities. The intent is also to avoid interpreting history as the interaction of undiscussed blocks (space, time, identity, religion). Focusing on all the interstices inside and between such notions (spatial, temporal, identity-related, confessional) is seen as a way to complexify the theorization of the interaction between time, space and religion.