Living with Nature and Things

Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods

758 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This edited volume represents the research results of two international conferences organized and sponsored by the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg: "Environmental Approaches in Pre-Modern Middle Eastern Studies" and "Material Culture Methods in the Middle Islamic Periods". The following work consists of three parts, which correspond to the themes of the aforementioned conferences (Contributions to Environmental History and Material Culture Studies) and a third which bridges the gap between the two approaches (Practice and Knowledge Transfer). The present contributions cover a wide range of such topics as urban pollution, local perceptions of weather, rural estate economy, Sufi understandings of nature and the body and mind, houses and socialization, text and gardens, local know-how and interdependence in medieval Syrian agriculture, crop selection and the medieval agricultural economy.

• Reihe: Mamluk Studies
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9783847111030
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2020
• Größe: 23.5 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Bethany J. Walker
• Herausgegeben von: Nicolò Pini, Nikolaos Vryzidis, Aleksandar Shopov, Muhammad Shaaban, Miriam Kühn, Anthony Quickel, Raymond Ruhaak, Chirar Corbino, Julie Bonnéric, Stefan Peychev, Tobias Nünlist, Yossef Rapoport, Rachel Hoffman, Christopher Braun, Noha Abou-Khatwa, Hend Elsayed, Bilal Badat, Fien De Block, Raffaele Ranieri, Elisa Pruno, Chiara Marcotulli, Gül Şen, Warren C. Schultz, Iman R. Abdulfattah, Gül Kale, Yehoshua Frenkel, Abdelkader Al Ghouz