Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo
Doris Behrens-Abouseif
"In this book, Doris Behrens-Abouseif responds to the Mamluk chroniclers whose loquacity regarding clothing matters demands our attention. Using a multiplicity of sources including chronicles, European and Muslim travel narratives, popular storytelling, legal treatises, literature, and poetry, Behrens-Abouseif delves into the details of Mamluk dress. Whether as a vehicle for the sultanate's self-representation both internationally and domestically or as an expression of religious and social identities, status and wealth, female assertion, urban culture, and artistic creativity, clothing personified the broad Mamluk social spectrum. Replete with colorful anecdotes and copious illustrations, Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo offers a lively and comprehensive study of this fascinating topic"
Contents
Introduction : subject, sources, and terminology
Religion, traditions, and customs
The Sultanate and its historians
The designer sultans (1250-1380s)
The Circassian revision (1380s-1517) and the Ottoman termination of the Mamluk dress code
The Khilʻa : institution and ritual
The Dār al-Ṭirāz and Mamluk art
Dress and dress code of the Mamluk aristocracy
The dress code of the civilian elite and the commoners
Women's clothing
Mamluk dress between text and image
Social order and mobility
Industry, trade, and assets
Epilogue
Kategorie:
Tom:
176
Rok:
2023
Wydawnictwo:
BRILL
Język:
english
Strony:
258
ISBN 10:
9004684972
ISBN 13:
9789004684973
Serie:
Handbook of Oriental Studies
Plik:
PDF, 16.13 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2023