Technology, tradition and survival [electronic resource] : aspects of material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia / editors--Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; Portland, OR :
Frank Cass,
2003.
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| Series: | Cass series--history and society in the Islamic world.
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Table of 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.