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Technology, tradition and survival : aspects of material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
- Title
- Technology, tradition and survival : aspects of material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia / editors--Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan.
- Publication
- London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 256 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- [History and society in the Islamic world series, 1466-9390]
- Uniform Title
- Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world.
- Subject
- Islamic civilization > Congresses
- Civilization, Western > Islamic influences > Congresses
- Islam and science > Congresses
- Civilization, Western > Islamic influences
- Islam and science
- Islamic civilization
- Manners and customs
- Gesellschaftsleben
- Islam
- Kultur
- Sitte
- Material culture > Islamic countries
- Material culture > Middle East
- Material culture > Asia, Central
- Islamic countries > Social life and customs > Congresses
- Islamic countries
- Mittelasien
- Naher Osten
- Islamic countries > Social life and customs
- London <1990>
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Konferenzschrift.
- Note
- Series statement on jacket.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Arab and Islamic contributions to European civilization / Rifaat Y. Ebied -- TB and its treatment in medieval Islam / J. Derek Latham -- Al-Tibb al-Nabawi : the prophet's medicine / Ghada Karmi -- Early Arabic cuisine : the evidence from medieval Arabic medical texts / Ghada Karmi -- Science and technology in Islamic building construction / Donald R. Hill -- Wind and watermills in Iran and Afghanistan / Michael Harverson -- Pigeon towers and ice-houses on the Iranian plateau / Elisabeth Beazley -- Sustainable buildings : Middle Eastern traditional systems for the future / Susan Roaf --From the Rashîdîya to the Ordos : in search of early Mongol tents / Peter Alford Andrews -- Material culture of pastoral nomads : reflections based on Arab and Afghan materials / Klaus Ferdinand -- Looms, carpets and talims / Jon Thompson -- The survival of the bazaar economy in Iran and the contemporary Middle East / Keith McLachlan -- The political significance of the bazaar in Iran / Mahmoud Abdullahzadeh -- The impact of oil wealth on traditional technologies in rural Oman / Roderic W. Dutton.
- ISBN
- 0714649279
- 9780714649276
- 0714644870
- 9780714644875
- LCCN
- 2003048999
- OCLC
- ocm52127314
- 52127314
- SCSB-14487065
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library