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Arab dress : a short history : from the dawn of Islam to modern times

This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab-Islamic material culture - clothing. Surveying the evolution, transformations, and semiotics of modes of dress over 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and medieval Islamic Spain

eBook, English, 2003
Rev. 2nd ed
Brill, Leiden, 2003