Author : Suraiya Faroqhi
Release : 2005-03-24
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 687/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East by : Suraiya Faroqhi
Download or read book Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East written by Suraiya Faroqhi. This book was released on 2005-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
