• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo: A Mamluk Obsession

Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo: A Mamluk Obsession

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004684972
ISBN13: 9789004684973
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 11 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this book, Doris Behrens-Abouseif responds to the Mamluk chroniclers whose loquacity regarding clothing matters demands our attention. Using a multiplicity of sources including chronicles, European and Muslim travel narratives, popular storytelling, legal treatises, literature, and poetry, Behrens-Abouseif delves into the details of Mamluk dress. Whether as a vehicle for the sultanate's self-representation both internationally and domestically or as an expression of religious and social identities, status and wealth, female assertion, urban culture, and artistic creativity, clothing personified the broad Mamluk social spectrum. Replete with colorful anecdotes and copious illustrations, Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo offers a lively and comprehensive study of this fascinating topic.

Also in

General Asian History