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Patterns of everyday life

Patterns of everyday life
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ISBN 0860787117 (hbk.)
Title Patterns of everyday life / edited by David Waines
Publisher Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002
Physical desc. xlviii, 370 p. ; ill. (b&w), plans ; 26 cm.
Series Formation of the classical Islamic world 10
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxix-xlviii) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Shelter. Pre-Islamic traditions of domestic architecture in Islamic Egypt / Alexandre Lézine -- A mansion in Fusṭāṭ: a twelfth-century description of a domestic compound in the ancient capital of Egypt / S.D. Goitein -- The houses of Siraf, Iran / David Whitehouse -- The Andalusī house in Siyasā: attempt at a typological classification / Julio Navarro Palazón -- The palm-frond house of the Bāṭinah / Paolo M. Costa -- Type and variation: Berber collective dwellings of the northwestern Sahara / William J.R. Curtis -- New caves for old: Beduin architecture in Petra / Piotr Bienkowski -- Architectural provision against heat in the Orient / Alexander Badawy -- Textiles and clothing. The Ṭirāz system / R.B. Serjeant -- Notes on costume from Arabic sources / Reuben Levy -- New data on Islamic textiles from the Geniza / Yedida K. Stillman -- Abbasid silks of the ninth century / Ernst Kühnel -- Covered with flowers: medieval floor coverings excavated at Fusṭāt / Louise W. Mackie -- A medieval face-veil from Egypt / Gillian Eastwood -- Food and drink. The most ancient recipes of all / Jean Bottéro -- The Arab agricultural revolution and its diffusion, 700-1100 / A. Watson -- Dietic aspects of food in al-Andalus / Expiración García Sánchez -- Pots and fire: the cooking processes in the cookbooks of al-Andalus and the Maghreb / Manuela Marín -- Muzawwar: counterfeit fare for fasts and fevers / David Waines and Manuela Marín -- Al-Rāzī on when and how to eat fruit / Rosa Kuhne Brabant -- Abū Zayd al-Balkhī on the nature of forbidden drink: a medieval Islamic controversy / David Waines.
Subject Civilization, Arab
Dwellings -- Arab countries -- History -- To 1500
Architecture, Domestic -- Islamic Empire
Islamic textile fabrics -- History
Islamic cooking -- History
Food habits -- Islamic Empire
Islamic Empire -- Civilization
Islamic Empire -- Social life and customs
Islamic Empire -- History -- 750-1258
Added name(s) Waines, David ed.
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