Crafts and craftsmen of the Middle East : fashioning the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean /

Main Author: Faroqhi, Suraiya N., 1941-
Other Authors: Deguilhem, Randi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York : I.B. Tauris, 2005
Series:The Islamic Mediterranean ; 4
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Principles of Guilds 1) Understanding Ottoman Guilds
  • Suraiya Faroqhi 2) Guild Parades in Ottoman Literature: The Su?rna?me of 1572
  • Gisela Prochazka-Eisl 3) Guild Membership in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Fluidity in Organisation
  • Eunjeong Yi 4) Ottoman Craftsmen: Problematic and Sources with Special Emphasis on the Eighteenth-Century
  • Suraiya Faroqhi * Part Two: Social Life, Politics and Guilds 5) C?uha for the Janissaries - Velenc?e for the Poor. Competition for Raw Material and Workforce between Salonica and Veria, 1600-1650
  • Eleni Gara 6) The Millers and Bakers of Istanbul (1750-1840)
  • Salih Aynural 7) A Pound of Flesh: The Meat Trade and Social Struggle in Jewish Istanbul, 1700-1923
  • Minna Rozen 8) Organising Labour: Professional Classifications in Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth-Century Cairo
  • Pascale Ghazaleh 9) Shared Space or Contested Space: Religious Mixity, Infrastructural Hierarchy and the Builderʹs Guild in Mid-Nineteenth Century Damascus
  • Randi Deguilhem * Part Three: The End of Guilds 10) Relations of Production and Social Conditions among the Coppersmiths in Contemporary Cairo
  • Claudia Kickinger 11) Histories and Economies of a Small Anatolian Town: Safranbolu and Its Leather Handicrafts
  • Heidemarie Doganalp-Votzi 12) The End of Guilds in Egypt: Restructuring Textiles in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • John Chalcraft.