Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times / by Yedida Kalfon Stillman ; and edited by Norman A. Stillman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stillman, Yedida Kalfon, 1946-1998.

Contributor:

Stillman, Norman A., 1945-

Series:

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 2.

Themes in Islamic studies, 1389-823X ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabs--Clothing.

Arabs.

Clothing and dress--Arab countries--History.

Clothing and dress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Rev. 2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46405-4

9786610464050

1-4175-5188-7

90-474-0280-4

OCLC:

437160854