The Bazaar Markets And Merchants Of The Islamic World
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Author | : Walter M. Weiss |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780500018392 |
Covers the history of Islamic markets, social and physical structures, water, vendors and crafts, and bazaars from Morocco to Central Asia
Author | : Clifford Edmund Bosworth |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004153888 |
This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
Author | : Mohammad Gharipour |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9774165292 |
The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. 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. Although they share some contextual and functional characteristics, each bazaar has its own unique and fascinating history, traditions, cultural practices, and structure. One of the most intriguing aspects revealed in this volume is the thread of continuity from past to present exhibited by the bazaar as a forum where a society meets and intermingles in the practice of goods exchange-a social and cultural ritual that is as old as human history.
Author | : Walter M. Weiss |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Bazaars (Markets) |
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Author | : John McMillan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003-11-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0393075729 |
Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?" Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are neither magical nor immoral. Rather, they are powerful if imperfect tools, the best we've found for improving our living standards. A New York Times Notable Book.
Author | : Mohammad Gharipour |
Publisher | : American University in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1617973467 |
The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. 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. Although they share some contextual and functional characteristics, each bazaar has its own unique and fascinating history, traditions, cultural practices, and structure. One of the most intriguing aspects revealed in this volume is the thread of continuity from past to present exhibited by the bazaar as a forum where a society meets and intermingles in the practice of goods exchange-a social and cultural ritual that is as old as human history.
Author | : Helen Tangires |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2008-04-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780393731675 |
"The accompanying CD-ROM contains high-quality downloadable TIFF files of all the illustrations."--Jaquette.
Author | : Jack Goody |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107683556 |
Goody raises questions about theorists, historians and methodology and proposes a new comparative approach to cross-cultural analysis.
Author | : Neveen Hamza |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2022-09-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000645460 |
This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa. It addresses how these trading environments influence perceptions of place and play an extended social, political, and religious role while adapting to their local climates. Through Archival research and social science methodologies, this book records and maps markets in urban fabrics, expanding on practices underlying the push towards historical listings and the development of markets as landmarks in the urban fabric. The role of markets in delivering sustainable place-making strategies and influencing the development of cities’ socio-economic and historical strength is addressed as key to their survival in the urban fabric and as place-making landmarks for preserving tangible and intangible heritage. Going beyond heritage and conservation studies, this book discusses how positioning and restoring markets challenges urban renewal policies, access to public space planning, environmental sustainability, security of food supply, cultural heritage, and tourism. This is an ideal read for those interested in the history of urban development, architecture and urban planning, and architectural heritage.
Author | : Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300124309 |
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visual arts in Venice were dramatically influenced by Islamic art. Because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean, Venice had long imported objects from the Near East through channels of trade, and it flourished during this particular period as a commercial, political, and diplomatic hub. This monumental book examines Venice's rise as the "bazaar of Europe" and how and why the city absorbed artistic and cultural ideas that originated in the Islamic world. Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797 features a wide range of fascinating images and objects, including paintings and drawings by familiar Venetian artists such as Bellini, Carpaccio, and Tiepolo; beautiful Persian and Ottoman miniatures; and inlaid metalwork, ceramics, lacquer ware, gilded and enameled glass, textiles, and carpets made in the Serene Republic and the Mamluk, Ottoman, and Safavid Empires. Together these exquisite objects illuminate the ways Islamic art inspired Venetian artists, while also highlighting Venice's own views toward its neighboring region. Fascinating essays by distinguished scholars and conservators offer new historical and technical insights into this unique artistic relationship between East and West.