The Arts and Crafts of Syria and Egypt from the Ayyubids to World War I: Collected Essays

Marcus Milwright

Published by Gorgias Press 2018

The Arts and Crafts of Syria and Egypt from the Ayyubids to World War I

Collected Essays

Marcus Milwright

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240073

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This book focuses on the production, sale, and consumption of portable arts in regions covered today by the modern polities of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestine Authority. The reprinted chapters in this volume have been revised and updated. They offer interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the region from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries, combining evidence from primary written sources, archaeology, and objects in museums and private collections. Topics include the production and distribution of pottery, importation of glazed wares into the Middle East, shadow puppetry, economic activity associated with the Syrian hajj, the manufacturing practices of the crafts operating in Damascus during the last decades of Ottoman rule, and the decoration of artillery shell cases during and after World War I. Also included are an introduction containing a critical evaluation of the main sources of information, a cumulative bibliography, and a previously unpublished study of leatherworking in the late Ottoman period.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
NOTES FOR THE READER Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
TEXT AND IMAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. POTTERY IN WRITTEN SOURCES OF THE AYYUBIDMAMLUK PERIOD (C. 567–923/1171–1517) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
CHAPTER 2. AN INSCRIBED POTTERY BOWL OF THE MAMLUK PERIOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 3. TURQUOISE AND BLACK: NOTES ON AN UNDERGLAZE-PAINTED STONEPASTE WARE OF THE MAMLUK PERIOD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
CHAPTER 4. WRITTEN SOURCES AND THE STUDY OF POTTERY IN OTTOMAN BILAD AL-SHAM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
CHAPTER 5. IMPORTED POTTERY IN OTTOMAN BILAD AL-SHAM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER 6. TRADE AND THE SYRIAN HAJJ BETWEEN THE TWELFTH AND THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES: HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 7. ON THE DATE OF PAUL KAHLE’S EGYPTIAN SHADOW PUPPETS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER 8. WOOD AND WOODWORKING IN LATE OTTOMAN DAMASCUS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE QĀMŪS AL- ṢINĀ'ĀT AL- SHĀMIYYA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
CHAPTER 9. GLASS AND GLASSWORKING IN DAMASCUS DURING THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
CHAPTER 10. METALWORKING IN DAMASCUS AT THE END OF THE OTTOMAN PERIOD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE QĀMŪS AL- ṢINĀ'ĀT AL- SHĀMIYYA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
CHAPTER 11. THE QĀMŪS AL- ṢINĀ'ĀT AL- SHĀMIYYA AS A RECORD OF THE LEATHER-WORKING CRAFTS OF LATE OTTOMAN DAMASCUS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
CHAPTER 12. AN ARABIC DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF ANTIQUES DEALERS IN LATE OTTOMAN DAMASCUS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
CHAPTER 13. DAMASCENE ‘TRENCH ART’: A NOTE ON THE MANUFACTURE OF MAMLUK REVIVAL METALWORK IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY SYRIA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

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Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 379
Keywords: Middle East; General

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Published: March 7, 2018
ISBN: 9781463240073