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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
Brill, Leiden, 2003