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The bazaar in the Islamic city : design, culture, and history / edited by Mohammad Gharipour.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bazaars (Markets)--Islamic countries.
- Bazaars (Markets).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo, Egypt ; New York, New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of the bazaar with a number of case studies from Cairo, Damascus Aleppo, Nablus, Bursa, Istanbul, Sana'a, Kabul, Tehran, and Yazd.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Tables
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Ideal-type and Urban History
- The Making of the Old City
- Commerce in the Emerging Empire
- The Continuity of Social Space
- The Suqs of Sanaa
- Crafts and Trade
- From Pre-industrial to Industrial Kabul
- Politics and Patronage
- A Caravanserai on the Route to Modernity
- Form and Function
- New Trinkets in Old Spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781617973468
- 1617973467
- 9781617971334
- 1617971332
- 9781617974793
- 161797479X
- OCLC:
- 880826184
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