Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East
Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East

Author: Suraiya Faroqhi

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-03-24

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0857711687

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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 those interested in the history of the culture and society of the Islamic Mediterranean.

The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16
The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16

Author: Jan Lucassen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780521737654

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Using recent approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.

Exploring Middle Eastern Cultures Through Crafts
Exploring Middle Eastern Cultures Through Crafts

Author: Mia Farrell

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 076606784X

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From evil eye good luck charms to prayer rugs to perfume bottles, these fun, easy crafts introduce you to the beautiful world of the Middle East.

Islamic Arts and Crafts
Islamic Arts and Crafts

Author: Marcus Milwright

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1474409172

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Islamic art is justly famed for its technological sophistication, varied approaches to ornament, and innovative employment of the written word. But what do we know about the skilled artisans who spent their lives designing and creating the paintings, objects and buildings that are so admired today? This anthology of written sources (dating from the seventh to the twentieth centuries) explores numerous aspects of the crafts of the Middle East from the processing of raw materials to the manufacture of finished artefacts. You will learn about: the legal and ethical dimensions of the arts and crafts, the organisation of labour in urban and rural contexts, the everyday lives of artisans, the gendered dimensions of making things, and the impact of industrialisation upon traditional methods of manufacture. Each chapter begins with an introduction providing a wider context for the primary sources. There are also suggestions for further reading.

The Global Bourgeoisie
The Global Bourgeoisie

Author: Christof Dejung

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0691195838

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This essay collection presents a global history of the middle class and its rise around the world during the age of empire. It compares middle-class formation in various regions, highlighting differences and similarities, and assesses the extent to which bourgeois growth was tied to the increasing exchange of ideas and goods and was a result of international connections and entanglements. Grouped by theme, the book shows how bourgeois values can shape the liberal world order.

Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds
Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds

Author: Evanthia Baboula

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-04-19

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9004457143

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Honouring Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds analyzes aspects of the constructed narratives and reconstructed realities of the visual-material record of diverse Mediterranean faith communities from medieval into contemporary times.

An Urban Profile of the Middle East
An Urban Profile of the Middle East

Author: Hugh Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-07

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1000156400

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Changes in economic and social conditions throughout the Middle East have been profound, and perhaps nowhere has this been more evident than in the field of urban development and town planning. This book, first published in 1979, provides a view of the Middle East as it undergoes transition by identifying and analysing the symptoms of change.