Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East - Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

Informationen zum Autor 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, IREMAM-MMSH, Aix-en-Provence. She has published on a variety of topics, with a particular interest on the pious foundations in modern and contemporary Syria, the intellectual life and educational systems in late Ottoman Damascus and on the French Secular Mission in Mandate Syria. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Randi Deguilhem, Deguilhem Randi, Suraiya Faroqhi, Suraiya Deguilhem Faroqhi, Faroqhi Suraiya
• Assisted by: Randi Deguilhem (Editor), Suraiya Faroqhi (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2005
• EAN: 9781860647000
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-700-0
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Islamic Mediterranean; Islamic Mediterranean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Decorative arts, ART / Middle Eastern, DESIGN / Decorative Arts, Middle East, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies