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The bazaar: markets and merchants of the Islamic world

by  Walter M Weiss / Kurt-Michael Westermann

Table Of Contents

  • In the empire of the senses
  • Impressions from the heart of the medina
  • The endless caravan-a brief history of trade
  • The major routes: incense, amber, silk and gold
  • The camel: god’s greatest gift
  • Holy place and market place-how the bazaar works
  • Philosophy of life: rational feeling
  • Society: imams, kadis and market overseers
  • Buildings and layout: mosques, shops and caravanserais
  • The elixir of life: the importance and use of water
  • Craftsmen and shopkeepers-their work and goods
  • Carpets: from loom to living room
  • Clothing: chadors, veils ans kaftans
  • Chechias: the cap makers of tunis
  • Jewelry: wealth and protection
  • Perfume: fragrances from the thousand and one nights
  • Coffee, tobacco and sweetmeats: life’s little pleasures
  • Medicine and magic: healing throough faith
  • Calligraphy and painting: letters and pictures
  • Wood: turners and carvers
  • Glass: the last glass-blowers
  • Metal: smith and sword makers
  • Ceramics: potters and tile makers
  • Leather: the tanners and dyers of fez
  • The heart of the city-portraits of the finest bazaars
  • Map: the world of the bazaars
  • Cairo
  • Damascus
  • aleppo
  • Istanbul
  • Sanna
  • Dubai
  • Kairouan
  • Tunis
  • Marrakesh
  • Fez
  • Shiraz
  • Isfahan
  • Samarkand, Bukhara and khiva
  • Epilogue-the light of the bazaars

Subject

Commerce / Social life and customs / Pictorial works / Merchants / Bazaars (Markets) / Cities and towns / Islamic countries

Details

Published New York, NY. : Thames and Hudson, 2000
Language English
Material 255 p.
ISBN 0500018391 / 9780500018392
Location
HF 5475 .I74 W43 2000
TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack

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