Arab dress : : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / / Yedida Kalfon Stillman ; and edited by Norman A. Stillman.
This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab-Islamic material culture - clothing. Surveying the evolution, transformations, and semiotics of modes of dress over 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and medieval Islamic Spain.
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| Superior document: | Themes in Islamic studies, v. 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | Revised second edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Themes in Islamic studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Pre-Islamic Arabia and the Early Umma; 2. The Evolution of the Islamic Vestimentary System under the Great Caliphates; 3. The Arab East under the Turkish Dynasties of the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: Saljuqs, Ayyubids, Mamluks, and Ottomans; 4. The Muslim West: North Africa and Medieval Spain; 5. The Laws of Differentiation and the Clothing of Non-Muslims; 6. The Opulent World of Tirāz and Precious Textiles; 7. Veiling in the Islamic Vestimentary System; 8. Modern Times; 9. The Study of Arab Clothing: A Bibliographical Epilogue
- Abbreviations of Journals and Encyclopedias; Archival and Manuscripts Sources; Bibliography; Index; Addenda & Corrigenda I; Addendum to Bibliography; Addenda & Corrigenda II; Plates; Figures