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Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean (Islamic Mediterranean)
Suraiya Faroqhi
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Description for Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean (Islamic Mediterranean)
Hardcover. This volume presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure of the Muslim Mediterranean world. Individual chapters range from the Ottoman Empire to traditional style crafts in 20th century Turkey and Egypt such as tanning or the manual production of copper vessels. Series: Islamic Mediterranean. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 b/w pictures. BIC Classification: 1FB; AFT; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 37. Weight in Grams: 620.
Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world. From the late sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire to traditional style crafts in twentieth-century Turkey and Egypt, the book surveys a multitude of traditions. It begins in 1582 when Istanbul artisans paraded in front of Sultan Murad III; moves through to the eighteenth-century struggles between artisans and tax farmers in Tokat, the artisans of Cairo and the craftsmen of Adana; and into nineteenth-century accounts of Istanbul's women workers and Jewish butchers. This book is essential to all ... Read more
Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world. From the late sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire to traditional style crafts in twentieth-century Turkey and Egypt, the book surveys a multitude of traditions. It begins in 1582 when Istanbul artisans paraded in front of Sultan Murad III; moves through to the eighteenth-century struggles between artisans and tax farmers in Tokat, the artisans of Cairo and the craftsmen of Adana; and into nineteenth-century accounts of Istanbul's women workers and Jewish butchers. This book is essential to all ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
Islamic Mediterranean
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860647000
SKU
V9781860647000
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Ref
99-5
About Suraiya Faroqhi
Suraiya Faroqhi has been a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat in Munich, Germany since 1988. She is the author of 'Pilgrims and Sultans, The Haj under the Ottomans' (IB Tauris, 1994) and 'Subjects of the Sultans, Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire' (IB Tauris, 2000) Randi Deguilhem is a Permanent Senior Researcher (CR1 habilitee) with the CNRS, ... Read more
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