Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ;...
Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ;...
Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ; and edited by Norman A. Stillman.
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Leiden Boston : Brill, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N391.0089/3
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English
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xxix, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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...
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"This illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab and Islamic material culture - clothing. While in part descriptive, its principal focus is on the evolution and transformations of modes of dress over the past 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and for the Middle Ages, Islamic Spain. A...
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Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ; and edited by Norman A. Stillman.
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Themes in Islamic studies, 1389-823X ; v. 2.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-214) and index.
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N391.0089/3
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74VvkKGpPjm3
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9004113738 (cloth : alk. paper)
9789004113732 (cloth : alk. paper)
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391.0089927
391.089927
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991013828349702626
