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Prof. Dr. Nora Lafi
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft
PD. Dr. Nora Lafi is a historian (PhD, 1999; Habilitation, 2011).
She specializes in the study of the Ottoman Empire and of the societies of the Middle East and North Africa.
She is involved with the Ghadames Heritage Project of the Leibnitz Center for the Orient. The project focusses on Gadhames as a centre for developing community based strategies for digitalization and heritage.
She is also a Privat Dozentin at Freie Universität Berlin. She co-chairs the Cities Compared project, part of EUME (Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin).
In November 2025 she was invited to Turin for the Palazzo Nuovo conference.
In June 2025 she participated in Making Boundaries: Performing Religion and Urbanity at University of Erfurt with a talk titled: The nature of urban boundaries revisited: longue-durée reflections on Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Aleppo. Find more about the conference here.
She was a Senior Fellow at the Max Weber Centre, Erfurt.
She has been chairing between 2020 and 2024 the international research project HISDEMAB of the Leibniz-Association on the historicity of democracy and deliberation in the Arab world.
She has published extensively on urban governance (Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l’empire ottoman, Brill, 2019) as well as on the historical anthropology of religion ("Daily Life Spatialities and Temporalities of Religion in Ottoman Tunis: Reflections on the Complexity of Urban Religious Landscapes"), Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2023, 25, 1, p.309-333, and gender studies (“Finding women and gender in the sources”, 2018).
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft
- Archives and manuscripts of the Islamic world
- cultural heritage
- History of the Osman Empire
- Governance
- Urban history
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft
Publications
2025
Lafi, Nora
Il cibo come urbanità : analisi di un manoscritto inedito
In Viaggio : Scritti di amici per Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi
Roma : Società Dalmata di Storia Patria, 2025. - page 229-237 . - (Studi e testi / Società Dalmata di Storia Patria; 28)
2025
Lafi, Nora; Al Ghafal, Suaad
ليبيا عبر التاريخ: تأملات حول تاريخية الديمقراطية = Lībīya ʿabra 't-tārīḫ : taʾmmulāt fī tārīḫī ...
Tunis : Manšūrāt Nīrfānā, 2025
Lafi, Nora
Oralità ed erudizione : riflessioni attorno al dizionario italiano/arabo di fra' Bonaventura di ...
Oralità, scrittura, lingua e letteratura nello Stato da Mar e altri contributi : Atti dell'XII convegno internazionale Venezia e il suo Stato da mar
Roma : Società Dalmata di Storia Patria, 2025. - page 151-162
https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/files/2025/03/1000 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Slyomovics, Susan: Monuments decolonized : Algeria's French colonial heritage. Stanford, 2024
in Planning Perspectives volume 40 (2025) issue 2. - page 447-449
doi:10.1080/02665433.2025.2466992 ...
Lafi, Nora
Women resisting colonization : Female rebels in Tunisia, Tripolitania and Fezzan: Networks, sol ...
in Africa : Rivista Semestrale di Studi e Ricerche. N.S. volume 7 (2025) issue 1. - page 47-65
doi:10.52056/9791257010911/03 ...
2024
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Faroqhi, Suraiya: Women in the Ottoman Empire : A Social and Political History. London, 2023
in CEU Review of Books (2024)
https://ceureviewofbooks.com/review/women-of-the-o ...
Lafi, Nora
Africa and the Nature of the Ottoman Empire : Challenging the Inertia of Eurocentrism
in Eurasian Studies volume 21 (2024) issue 2. - page 276-302
doi:10.1163/24685623-20230156 ...
Lafi, Nora; Al-Ghafal, Suaad
Digitization and the Protection of Endangered Patrimonies: Ghadames as a
Laboratory of Communit ...
in ZMO Bulletin (2024) issue 44. - page 3-4
https://ghadames.hypotheses.org/files/2024/04/ZMO_ ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Dumasy, François: Tripoli coloniale : Histoire sociale et économique d’une ville sous dominatio ...
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (2024) issue 156
doi:10.4000/123l1 ...
Lafi, Nora
Réflexions sur l’historicité de la délibération dans le monde arabe : Tripoli à l’époque ottoma ...
Éclairages variés sur la Libye contemporaine
Tunis : IRMC, 2024. - page 35-70
doi:10.4000/books.irmc.3832 ...
2024
تأملات حول المشاركة السياسية في المنطقة العربية مطلع القرن العشرين = Taʻammulāt ḥawla al-mush ...
publ: al-Kayyālī, ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd; Lafi, Nora; Amīr, ʻAbd al-Qādir
Amman : Alaan, 2024
2023
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Breviglieri, Marc ; Gamal Said, Noha ; Goeury, David (Eds.): Résonnances oasiennes : Approches ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 38 (2023) issue 3. - page 726-728
doi:10.1080/02665433.2023.2202119 ...
Lafi, Nora
Daily Life Spatialities and Temporalities of Religion in Ottoman Tunis : Reflections on the Com ...
in Archiv für Religionsgeschichte volume 25 (2023) issue 1. - page 309-333
doi:10.1515/arege-2023-0015 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Erdim, Burak: Landed internationals : Planning cultures, the academy and the making of the mode ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 38 (2023) issue 2. - page 456-457
doi:10.1080/02665433.2023.2179261 ...
2022
Lafi, Nora
Conceptualising Urbanity, Reinterpreting Coexistence : A ḥisba Manuscript of the Late Ottoman E ...
Religion and Urbanity Online
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022
doi:10.1515/urbrel.11276311 ...
Lafi, Nora
Longue-Durée Reflections on Anti-Colonial Movements in the Middle-East (1798–today)
Routledge Handbook of EU–Middle East Relations
London ; New York : Routledge, 2022. - page 36-46
doi:10.4324/9780429317873-5 ...
Lafi, Nora
Réflexions sur l'analyse historique des processus de négociation : Tunis ottomane et la pressio ...
La négociation entre le Maghreb et l'Europe méditerranéenne du Moyen-Âge au XXᵉ siècle
Tunis : GLD, 2022. - page 134-157
https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/files/2022/10/Lafi ...
2022
Transforming Cities, Negotiating Centrality
publ: Arnaud, Colin; Lafi, Nora; Ferrighi, Alessandra
Historical Social Research
2022
https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/files/2022/10/HSR- ...
Lafi, Nora
Urban Infrastructure between Local Networks and the Wider World : The Tramway in Late-Ottoman A ...
From the Household to the Wider World : Local Perspectives on Urban Institutions in Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham
Tübingen : University Press, 2022. - page 207-221
https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/files/2022/10/Lafi ...
2020
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Dennerlein, Bettina: Religion als Reform : Iṣlāḥ und Gesellschaft in Marokko, 1830–1912. Berlin ...
in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung volume 115 (2020) issue 6. - page 468-470
doi:10.1515/olzg-2020-0155 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Karateke, Hakan T. ; Çıpa, H. Erdem ; Anetshofer, Helga (Eds.): Disliking Others : Loathing, Ho ...
in Turkish Historical Review volume 10 (2020) issue 2-3. - page 281-285
doi:10.1163/18775462-01002002 ...
Lafi, Nora
The Municipality of Salonica between Old Regime, Ottoman Reforms and the Transition from Empire ...
Thessaloniki : A City in Transition, 1912–2012
London : Routledge, 2020
Lafi, Nora
Protecting the Medina of Tunis: Reflections on Current Challenges and Initiatives
World Heritage Watch Report 2020
Berlin : World Heritage Watch e.V., 2020. - page 148-152
https://world-heritage-watch.org/wp-content/upload ...
Lafi, Nora
Urbanity as an ethic : Reflections on the cities of the Arab world
Urban Ethics : Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
London : Routledge, 2020
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432 ...
2019
Lafi, Nora
Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'Empire ottoman (XVᵉ-XXᵉ siècles)
Leiden : Brill, 2019
doi:10.1163/9789004364516 ...
Lafi, Nora
I Mercanti Veneziani ad Aleppo nel Cinquecento: degli Ottomani come gli altri?
Venezia e il suo Stato da mar
Roma : Società Dalmata di Storia Patria, 2019. - page 107-120
https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/files/2023/01/I_Me ...
Lafi, Nora
Reinterpreting Municipal History : Izmir in the Late-Ottoman Period through the Mirror of Recen ...
Anniversary for the 150 Years since the Institution of the Izmir Municipality International Symposium: Local Government Democracy and Izmir
Izmir , 2019. - page 32-39
2018
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Naar, Devin: Jewish Salonica : Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece. Stanford, 2016
in Connections (2018)
https://www.connections.clio-online.net/publicatio ...
Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Administrative Boundaries, Communal Segregation and Factional Territorialisation : The Complex ...
in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient volume 61 (2018) issue 4. - page 593-605
doi:10.1163/15685209-12341463 ...
2018
The Complex Nature of Urban Boundaries in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Cities
publ: Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
2018
https://www.jstor.org/stable/e26572312
Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Einleitung: Die osmanische Stadt im Wandel (1850-1920)
in Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2018) issue 1. - page 5-15
https://difu.de/sites/default/files/media_files/20 ...
Lafi, Nora
Finding women and gender in the sources : toward a historical anthropology of Ottoman Tripoli
in The Journal of North African Studies volume 23 (2018) issue 5. - page 768-790
doi:10.1080/13629387.2018.1436621 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Mermier, Franck: Récits de villes : d'Aden à Beyrouth. Arles, 2015
in Planning Perspectives volume 33 (2018) issue 2. - page 303-304
doi:10.1080/02665433.2018.1420388 ...
Lafi, Nora
Organizing Coexistence in Early Ottoman Aleppo : an Interpretation of the 1518, 1526, and 1536 ...
Human Mobility and Multiethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies. 2
Tokyo : ILCAA, 2018. - page 103-120
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326113130 ...
2018
Die Osmanische Stadt
publ: Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Moderne Stadtgeschichte
2018
https://difu.de/sites/default/files/media_files/20 ...
Lafi, Nora
Tunis als Laboratorium osmanischer Modernität: das Beispiel der Vorstadtbahn (1863-1881)
in Moderne Stadtgeschichte (2018) issue 1. - page 16-25
https://difu.de/sites/default/files/media_files/20 ...
2017
Lafi, Nora
Anthropologie historique de la violence urbaine : Le Caire, Alep, Tunis (1798-1857)
Echanger en Méditerranée : Recueil d'études en hommage à Sadok Boubaker
Tunis : Latrach Editions, 2017. - page 345-366
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01461556/document
Lafi, Nora
The "Arab Spring" in Global Perspective : Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Tra ...
The History of Social Movements in Global Perspective : A Survey
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. - page 677-702
doi:10.1057/978-1-137-30427-8_23 ...
Lafi, Nora
Building and Deconstructing Authenticity in Aleppo : Heritage between Conservation, Transformat ...
Gebaute Geschichte : Historische Authentizität im Stadtraum
Göttingen : Wallstein, 2017. - page 206-228
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-0156032 ...
Lafi, Nora
Kosmopolitismus als Governance : Das Beispiel des Osmanischen Reiches
Bessere Welten : Kosmopolitismus in den Geschichtswissenschaften
Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, 2017. - page 317-342
Lafi, Nora
Policing the Medina: Public Order in Tunis at the Time of the Tanzimat (1857–1864)
in Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association volume 4 (2017) issue 1. - page 55-71
doi:10.2979/jottturstuass.4.1.04 ...
Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Post-osmanische Phantome im städtischen Raum Südosteuropas, Anatoliens, des Mittleren Ostens un ...
Wahrnehmen, Erfahren, Gestalten : Phantomgrenzen und soziale Raumproduktion
Göttingen : Wallstein, 2017. - page 187-213 . - (Phantomgrenzen im östlichen Europa; 3)
Lafi, Nora
Die Ränder Europas denken : Osmanisches Erbe, unsichtbare Grenzen und neue Festungen
Fluchtpunkt : Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise
Berlin : Kadmos, 2017. - page 70-82
Lafi, Nora
Resilient Forms of Urbanity on the Margins? The Kherba: a Vivid Market in a Damaged Section of ...
Understanding the City through its Margins : Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
London : Routledge, 2017. - page 45-62
2017
Understanding the City through its Margins : Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies i ...
publ: Chappatte, André; Freitag, Ulrike; Lafi, Nora
London : Routledge, 2017
Lafi, Nora
Workers vs Machines: Ottoman Tunis between Industrialisation and Colonisation
Development as a Battlefield
Leiden : Brill, 2017. - page 37-60 . - (International Development Policy; 8)
doi:10.1163/9789004349551_004 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Zandi-Sayek, Sibel: Ottoman Izmir : The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port (1840-1880). Minneapolis, 2 ...
in Die Welt des Islams volume 57 (2017) issue 1. - page 130-133
doi:10.1163/15700607-00571p16 ...
2016
Lafi, Nora
Alger au temps du consul Hammeken – une ville ottomane en reconstruction
Les correspondances de Ludolf Hammeken, le premier consul dano-norvégien à Alger (1746 - 1751)
Alger : ENAG, 2016. - page 79-87
Lafi, Nora
Challenging the Ottoman pax urbana : intercommunal clashes in 1857 Tunis
Violence and the city in the modern Middle East
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2016. - page 95-108
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Hakimi, Zohra: Alger : Politiques urbaines (1846-1958). Saint-Denis, 2011
in Planning Perspectives volume 31 (2016) issue 1. - page 140-142
doi:10.1080/02665433.2015.1100003 ...
Lafi, Nora
Historische Perspektiven auf den Maghreb
in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte volume 66 (2016) issue 33-34. - page 4-10
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Lévy-Aksu, Noémi: Ordre et désordres dans l'Istanbul ottomane (1879-1909). Paris, 2013
Photographier la ville
in volume 46 (2016)
doi:10.3917/rhu.046.0184 ...
Lafi, Nora
Old Regime Urban Planning Practices in Ottoman North Africa and their Reform during the Tanzima ...
Urban planning in North Africa
London : Routledge, 2016. - page 23-30
Lafi, Nora
Retour à Alexandrie : une communauté citadine avant Ilbert?
Étudier en liberté les mondes méditerranéens : mélanges offerts à Robert Ilbert
Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2016. - page 201-207
Lafi, Nora
Urban open spaces and the revolutionary events of 2010–2011 in Tunis : a Tentative Typology
Städtische öffentliche Räume / Urban public spaces : Planungen, Aneignungen, Aufstände 1945–2015
Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. - page 279-291
2015
Lafi, Nora
Ο Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης μεταξύ του παλαιού καθεστώτος, των οθωμανικών μεταρρυθμίσεων και της μετάβ ...
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ ΜΙΑ ΠΟΛΗ ΣΕ ΜΕΤΑΒΑΣΗ, 1912-2012
Thessaloniki : Epikentro, 2015
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: David, Jean-Claude ; Boissière, Thierry (Eds.): Alep et ses territoires : Fabrique et politique ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 30 (2015) issue 2. - page 298-300
doi:10.1080/02665433.2014.1002210 ...
Lafi, Nora
Diversity and the Nature of the Ottoman Empire : From the construction of the imperial old regi ...
Routledge international handbook of diversity studies
London : Routledge, 2015. - page 125-131
Lafi, Nora
L'Empire ottoman en Afrique : perspectives d'histoire critique
in Cahiers d’Histoire (2015) issue 128. - page 59-70
doi:10.4000/chrhc.4505 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Lewis, Mary Dewhurst: Divided Rule : Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938. Berke ...
in Law and History Review volume 33 (2015) issue 4. - page 1013-1015
doi:10.1017/S0738248015000541 ...
Lafi, Nora
Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence : The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo
Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation state
New York : Berghahn Books, 2015. - page 29-51
Lafi, Nora
The Nature of Jewish Spaces in Ottoman Algiers
Jewish and non-Jewish spaces in the urban context
Berlin : Neofelis Verlag, 2015. - page 83-98
Lafi, Nora
Piri Reis, un cartographe ottoman en Algérie
in La Géographie (2015) issue 1559. - page 14-17
doi:10.3917/geo.1559.0014 ...
2015
Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transition from empire to nation ...
publ: Freitag, Ulrike; Fuccaro, Nelida; Ghrawi, Claudia; Lafi, Nora
New York : Berghahn Books, 2015
2014
Lafi, Nora
Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the notion of ...
Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history
New York : Berghahn Books, 2014. - page 139-148
Lafi, Nora
The Eighteenth Century in the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire : Perspectives for a Global ...
Cultural Transfers, Encounters and Connections in the Global 18th Century
Leipzig : Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014. - page 231-260
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01111229/document
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Florin, Bénédicte ; Legros, Olivier ; Semmoud, Nora ; Troin, Florence (Eds.): Marges urbaines e ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 29 (2014) issue 4. - page 586-588
doi:10.1080/02665433.2014.936131 ...
Lafi, Nora
From a challenge to the Empire to a challenge to urban cosmopolitanism?
The 1819 Aleppo riots a ...
Urban Governance Under the Ottomans : Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict
London : Routledge, 2014. - page 58-75
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Ourfelli, Mohamed ; Voguet, Elise (Eds.): Le monde rural dans l'Occident musulman médiéval. Aix ...
in Die Welt des Islams volume 54 (2014) issue 2. - page 278-280
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24268928
2014
Silvestre de Sacy : le projet européen d'une science orientaliste
publ: Espagne, Michel; Lafi, Nora; Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale
Paris : Éd. du Cerf, 2014
Lafi, Nora
Silvestre de Sacy et les orientalistes italiens : un autre regard sur le monde arabe
Silvestre de Sacy : le projet européen d'une science orientaliste
Paris : Éd. du Cerf, 2014
2014
Freitag, Ulrike; Lafi, Nora
Urban Governance Under the Ottomans : Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict
London : Routledge, 2014
2013
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Anastasopoulos, Antonis (Ed.): The Eastern Mediterranean under Ottoman Rule : Crete, 1645-1840. ...
in Die Welt des Islams volume 53 (2013) issue 1. - page 108-111
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24268875
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Annaloro, Milena ; Lange, Guirémi (Eds.): Alexandrie une architecture ottomane. Marseille, 2011 ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 28 (2013) issue 3. - page 499-501
doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.800706 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Bodenstein, Ralph: Villen in Beirut : Wohnkultur und sozialer Wandel 1860–1930. Petersberg, 201 ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 28 (2013) issue 3. - page 501-502
doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.800707 ...
Lafi, Nora
Mediterranean cosmopolitanism and its contemporary revivals : a critical approach
The Mediterranean
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - page 325-335 . - (New Geographies; 5)
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00825628v1
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Sadria, Modjtaba (Ed.): Homogenisation of representations. Geneva, 2012
in Planning Perspectives volume 28 (2013) issue 4. - page 665-667
doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.828471 ...
Lafi, Nora
Violence factieuse, enjeux internationaux et régulation ottomane de la conflictualité urbaine à ...
in Hypothéses (2013) issue 116. - page 395-403
doi:10.3917/hyp.121.0395 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Wilkins, Charles L.: Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700. Leiden, 2010
in Comparativ : Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung volume 23 (2013) issue 2. - page 129-133
https://comparativ.net/v2/article/view/821
2012
Lafi, Nora
A. I. Silvestre de Sacy
Orientalist writers
Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, 2012. - page 254-260 . - (Dictionary of Literary Biography; 366)
Lafi, Nora
Al-hadâtha wal-idâra al-hadâriyya fî Misr al-'uthmâniyya : As'ila wa tafsîrât
Jadal al-mawḍū'īyah wa-al-dhātīyah fī kitābat tārīkh Miṣr : dirāsāt muhdāh ilá al-mu'arrikhah al-kabīrah Nillī Ḥannā
Cairo : al-Hay'ah al-Miṣrīyah al-'Āmmah lil-Kitāb, 2012. - page 263-273
Lafi, Nora
Ettore Rossi
Orientalist writers
Detroit : Gale Cengage Learning, 2012. - page 250-253 . - (Dictionary of Literary Biography; 366)
Lafi, Nora
La gouvernance ottomane des équilibres locaux : le rôle du bureau central des pétitions à Istan ...
Les Archives, la Société et les Sciences Humaines : Actes du Colloque Tunis, 22-24 Février 2010
Tunis , 2012. - page 261-274 . - (Cahiers du C.E.R.E.S. : Série Histoire; 21)
https://www.academia.edu/2075359/La_gouvernance_ot ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Heinze-Greenberg, Ita: Europa in Palästina : Die Architekten des zionistischen Projekts (1902–1 ...
in Planning Perspectives volume 27 (2012) issue 3. - page 486-487
doi:10.1080/02665433.2012.680294 ...
Lafi, Nora
L'Algérie dans l'historiographie allemande depuis 1945
in Al-Mawaqif : Revue des études et des recherches sur la société et l'histoire (2012) issue 7. - page 35-57
https://www.academia.edu/3815933/LAlg%C3%A9rie_dan ...
Lafi, Nora
Être juif dans l'Algérie ottomane
Juifs d'Algérie
Paris : Skira Flammarion, 2012. - page 68-81
2011
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Barkey, Karen: Empire of Difference : The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge, 2008
in Comparativ : Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung volume 21 (2011) issue 2. - page 122-126
https://comparativ.net/v2/article/view/417
2011
The City in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity
publ: Freitag, Ulrike; Fuhrmann, Malte; Lafi, Nora; Riedler, Florian
Abingdon : Routledge, 2011
doi:10.4324/9780203846520 ...
Lafi, Nora
Cronache civiche e microcosmi cittadini : Tripoli nell'Ottocento
Il Mediterraneo delle città
Milano : FrancoAngeli, 2011. - page 233-240
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00337929/document
Freitag, Ulrike; Lafi, Nora
Daily life and family in an Ottoman urban context : Historiographical stakes and new research p ...
in The History of the Family volume 16 (2011) issue 2. - page 80-87
doi:10.1016/j.hisfam.2011.02.002 ...
2011
Daily life and family in an Ottoman urban context : Historiographical stakes and new research p ...
publ: Lafi, Nora; Freitag, Ulrike
The History of the Family
2011
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-history- ...
Lafi, Nora
Goldziher vu d'Al-Azhar : 'Abd Al-Jalil Shalabi et la critique de l'orientalisme européen
Ignác Goldziher : un autre orientalisme?
Paris : Geuthner, 2011. - page 249-259
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00617358/document
Lafi, Nora
The Ottoman urban governance of migrations and the stakes of modernity
The City in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity
London : Routledge, 2011. - page 8-25
Lafi, Nora
Un parcours scientifique : essai d'égo-histoire
Aix-en-Provence : Univ. de Provence,
2011
https://www.academia.edu/1146652/Un_parcours_scien ...
Lafi, Nora
Petitions and Accommodating Urban Change in the Ottoman Empire
Istanbul as seen from a distance : Centre and provinces in the Ottoman Empire
Istanbul : Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 2011. - page 73-82
https://shs.hal.science/file/index/docid/618770/fi ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Sawalha, Aseel: Reconstructing Beirut : Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City. Austin, 2010
in Planning Perspectives volume 26 (2011) issue 2. - page 338-340
doi:10.1080/02665433.2011.550490 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Weber, Stefan: Damascus : Ottoman Modernity and Urban Transformation (1808-1918). Aarhus, 2009
in Planning Perspectives volume 26 (2011) issue 1. - page 119-150
doi:10.1080/02665433.2011.527553 ...
2010
Lafi, Nora
Biographie : Laurent-Charles Féraud, une passion coloniale
Laurent-Charles Féraud : peintre et témoin de la conquête de l'Algérie
Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau : Hayot, 2010. - page 103-106
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Dogo, Marco ; Pitassio, Armando (Eds.): Città dei Balcani, città d'Europa : Studi sullo svilupp ...
in Sissco Recensioni Annali (2010)
https://www.sissco.it/recensione-annale/marco-dogo ...
Lafi, Nora
Entrée Bilad
L'aventure des mots de la ville : à travers le temps, les langues, les sociétés
Paris : Ed. Robert Laffont, 2010. - page 69-72
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Hanssen, Jens: Fin de Siècle Beirut : The Making of an Ottoman Provincial Capital. Oxford, 2005 ...
in Die Welt des Islams volume 50 (2010) issue 1. - page 163-168
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20788354
Lafi, Nora
Laurent-Charles Féraud: Artiste, Soldat, Historien et Diplomate
Laurent-Charles Féraud : peintre et témoin de la conquête de l'Algérie
Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau : Hayot, 2010. - page 9-10
2009
Lafi, Nora
Entre ottomanité, colonialisme et orientalisme : les racines ambiguës de la modernité urbaine d ...
Frankreich und Frankophonie : Kultur - Sprache - Medien
München : Meidenbauer, 2009. - page 143-162
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00438328/document
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Grehan, James: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus. Seattle, 2007 ...
in The American Historical Review volume 114 (2009) issue 5. - page 1574-1576
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23303621
Lafi, Nora
Microcosmes urbains et pluralité linguistique : pour une lecture dynamique de la relation entre ...
Sociolinguistique urbaine et développement durable urbain : enjeux et pratiques dans les sociétés francophones et non francophones
München : Meidenbauer, 2009. - page 143-158
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Raymond, André: Tunis sous les Mouradites : La ville et ses habitants au XVIIe siècle. Tunis, 2 ...
in Cahiers d’Histoire (2009) issue 107
doi:10.4000/chrhc.1369 ...
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Weintritt, Otfried: Arabische Geschichtsschreibung in den arabischen Provinzen des Osmanischen ...
in H-Soz-Kult (2009)
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-1 ...
2008
Lafi, Nora
Mediterranean connections : The circulation of municipal knowledge and practices during the Ott ...
Another global city : Historical explorations into the transnational municipal moment, 1850-2000
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - page 35-50
2007
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Roussillon, Alain: Identité et modernité : Les voyageurs égyptiens au Japon. Arles, 2005
in H-Soz-Kult (2007)
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-9 ...
2006
Lafi, Nora
La Libia dalla conquista araba alla colonizzazione italiana
2006
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00139301v1
Accademia Mediterranea, Ancona, Italy
Freitag, Ulrike; Lafi, Nora
Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions
Berlin
2006
https://shs.hal.science/file/index/docid/139290/fi ...
Lafi, Nora
Eski Düzen ve çağdaşlık arasındaki Osmanlı Belediye Reformları : Yeni bir yorumsal örneğe doğru ...
First International Symposium on Eminönü
Istanbul : Eminönü Belediyesi, 2006. - page 340-347
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00147639/document
Lafi, Nora
La fabrique des villes maghrébines entre héritages et réinterprétations : institutions, espaces ...
Villes réelles, villes projetées : Fabrication de la ville au Maghreb
Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose, 2006. - page 81-90
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00139895v1/document
Lafi, Nora
Ghadamès cité-oasis entre empire ottoman et colonisation
La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico
Milano : A. Giuffrè, 2006. - page 55-69
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00128855/document
Lafi, Nora
L'affaire 'Alî al-Qarqânî (Tripoli, 1872)
Être Notable Au Maghreb : Dynamique des Configurations Notabiliaires
Tunis : Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 2006. - page 204-217
https://books.openedition.org/irmc/339
Lafi, Nora
The Ottoman Municipal Reforms between Old Regime and Modernity : Towards a New
Interpretative P ...
First International Symposium on Eminönü
Istanbul : Eminönü Belediyesi, 2006. - page 348-355
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00146210/document
2005
Lafi, Nora
Espace de loisirs, espace politique : le café dans le monde arabe au xixᵉ siècle, l'exemple de ...
Divertissements et loisirs dans les sociétés urbaines à l’époque moderne et contemporaine
Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2005. - page 345-353
https://books.openedition.org/pufr/656
Lafi, Nora
Les pouvoirs urbains à Tunis à la fin de l'époque ottomane : la persistance de l'Ancien régime ...
Municipalités méditerranéennes : Les réformes urbaines ottomanes au miroir d'une histoire comparée (Moyen-Orient, Maghreb, Europe méridionale)
Berlin : Schwarz, 2005. - page 229-254
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Moalla, Asma: The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814 : Army and
government of a ...
in The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies volume 5 (2005) issue Spring. - page 262-265
https://dome.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.3/17797 ...
2005
Municipalités méditerranéennes : Les réformes urbaines ottomanes au miroir d'une histoire compa ...
publ: Lafi, Nora
Berlin : Schwarz, 2005
Lafi, Nora
Présentation
Féraud, Laurent-Charles: Annales Tripolitaines
Saint-Denis : Bouchene, 2005
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Salzmann, Ariel: Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire : Rival Paths to the Modern State. Leiden, 2 ...
in The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies volume 5 (2005) issue Fall. - page 90-94
https://dome.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.3/17797 ...
2004
Lafi, Nora
Aspects du gouvernement urbain dans la Sicile musulmane
in Cahiers de la Mediterranee (2004) issue 68. - page 1-16
doi:10.4000/cdlm.625 ...
Lafi, Nora
La langue des marchands de Tripoli au xixᵉ siècle : langue franque et langue arabe dans un port ...
Trames de langues : Usages et métissages linguistiques dans l’histoire du Maghreb
Tunis : Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 2004. - page 215-222
https://books.openedition.org/irmc/1469
Lafi, Nora
Les fonctions frumentaires des charges urbaines dans les villes arabes aux XVIIIᵉ et XIXᵉ siècl ...
Nourrir les cités de Méditerranée: antiquité - temps modernes
Paris : Maisonneuve & Larose, 2004. - page 479-490
2003
Lafi, Nora
From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul : Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the Ottoma ...
Urbanism: Imported or Exported?
Chichester : Wiley, 2003. - page 187-205
Lafi, Nora
Rattachement et autonomie locale : Réflexions sur la ville ottomane: Tripoli 1551-1911
Villes rattachées, villes reconfigurées
Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, 2003. - page 99-112
https://books.openedition.org/pufr/3049
2002
Lafi, Nora; Bocquet, Denis
Local Élites and Italian Town-Planning Procedures in Early Colonial Tripoli 1911-1912
in The Journal of Libyan Studies volume 3 (2002) issue 1. - page 59-68
https://www.academia.edu/795766/Local_Elites_and_I ...
2002
Lafi, Nora
Tripoli de Barbarie (1795-1911) : genèse et pérennité de l'institution municipale
Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
(dissertation, 1999,
)
2002
Lafi, Nora
Une ville du Maghreb entre ancien régime et réformes ottomanes : genèse des institutions munici ...
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2002
2001
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Bolasco, Ernesto: Damasco-Medina, ferrovia avveniristica (1901-1908) : Mille operai italiani ne ...
in Revue d'Histoire du XIXe Siècle (2001) issue 23. - page 237-239
doi:10.4000/rh19.324 ...
Lafi, Nora
Ville arabe et modernité administrative municipale : Tripoli (Libye actuelle), 1795-1911
in Histoire Urbaine (2001) issue 3. - page 149-167
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-histoire-urbaine-2001 ...
2000
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Arnaud, Jean-Luc: Le Caire : Mise en place d'une ville moderne 1867-1907. Arles, 1998
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée volume 91-94 (2000) . - page 401-404
doi:10.4000/remmm.2752 ...
Lafi, Nora
Bienfaisance citadine et gouvernement urbain à Tripoli au XIXᵉ siècle
in Annuaire de l'Afrique du Nord volume 39 (2000) . - page 209-216
doi:10.34847/nkl.bfb6z155 ...
Lafi, Nora
L’affaire al-Qarqani (Tripoli, 1872)
Villes et territoires au Maghreb : Itinéraire d'une recherche
Tunis : Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain, 2000
https://books.openedition.org/irmc/165
Lafi, Nora
Pouvoir dynastique et élites locales à Tripoli
Aux rivages des Syrtes : la Lybie, espace et développement, de l'antiquité à nos jours : colloque du 25-26 octobre 1999, Paris
Paris : Centre des études sur l'Afrique et l'Asie modernes, 2000
1999
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Cresti, Federico: Oasi di italianità : La Libia della colonizzazione agraria tra fascismo, guer ...
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (1999) issue 87-88. - page 319-322
doi:10.4000/remmm.2380 ...
Lafi, Nora
Réorganisation administrative, politique et urbaine de Tripoli de Barbarie dans le cadre des ré ...
in Rives Nord-Méditerranéennes (1999) issue 2
doi:10.4000/rives.150 ...
1997
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Baldinetti, Anna: Orientalismo e colonialismo : La ricerca di consenso in Egitto per l'impresa ...
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée volume 83-84 (1997) . - page 255-259
https://www.persee.fr/doc/remmm_0997-1327_1997_num ...
Lafi, Nora
Tripoli de Barbarie : port de mer, port du désert (1795-1835)
Méditerranée, mer ouverte : actes du colloque de Marseille (21 - 23 septembre 1995). Tome II. XIXᵉ et XXᵉ siècles
Malta : International Foundation, 1997. - page 657-666
https://archiv.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Lafi/tripolie-de ...
1994
Lafi, Nora
Les relations de Malte et de Tripoli de Barbarie au XIXᵉ siècle
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (1994) issue 71. - page 127-142
https://www.persee.fr/doc/remmm_0997-1327_1994_num ...
1993
Lafi, Nora
reviewed by: Bono, Salvatore: Corsari nel Mediterraneo : Christiani e musulmani fra guerra, schiavitù e comm ...
in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée volume 68-69 (1993) . - page 300-302
https://www.persee.fr/doc/remmm_0997-1327_1993_num ...
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Nora Lafi
Lehrstuhlvertretung
Gebäude: GW I, Raum 1.03
Sprechstunde nach Vereinbarung
Phone: +49 921 55 3553
E-mail: nora.lafi@uni-bayreuth.de
Postadresse
Universität Bayreuth
Islamwissenschaft
Prof. Dr. Nora Lafi
95440 Bayreuth