Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

by Suraiya Faroqhi

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860647006
• ISBN13: 9781860647000
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.8"