The bazaar in the Islamic city : design, culture, and history / edited by Mohammad Gharipour.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ideal-type and Urban History -- The Making of the Old City -- Commerce in the Emerging Empire -- The Continuity of Social Space -- The Suqs of Sanaa -- Crafts and Trade -- From Pre-industrial to Industrial Kabul -- Politics and Patronage -- A Caravanserai on the Route to Modernity -- Form and Function -- New Trinkets in Old Spaces

The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of the bazaar with a number of case studies from Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Nablus, Bursa, Istanbul, Sana'a, Kabul, Tehran, and Yazd.

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