Manufacturing and Labour

ISBN-13: 9780860787075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 378 str.

Opis

Manufacturing involves the processing of raw materials, and animal and agricultural products into desired, usable forms. In the early Islamic world this included smelting and smithing metals, making pottery and glass, producing cheese and leather, grinding grain, pressing olives, winemaking, refining sugar, weaving animal plant fibres, and making paper. The literature focuses on identifying the products themselves, on the techniques of producing them and on the artisans who made them.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Manufacturing: The development of techniques in the medieval Muslim world, G. Wiet, V. Elisséeff and Ph. Wolff; The main industries of the Mediterranean area as reflected in the records of the Cairo Geniza, S. D. Goitein; An introduction to the study of Muslim ceramics, Jean Sauvaget; A new interpretation of the economic history of medieval Egypt: the role of the textile industry, 254-567/868-1171, Gladys Frantz-Murphy; Labour: The crafts among the Arabs, Ignaz Goldziher; Base trades in Islam, Robert Brunschvig; The economic conditions of the Mawali in early Islamic times, Jamal Judah; Craftsmen and groups of craftsmen in the first centuries of Islam, Barbara Finster; The working people of the Mediterranean area during the high Middle Ages, S. D. Goitein; Agricultural and irrigation labourers in social and economic life of Iraq during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, Muhammad Abdul Jabbar; The ’serfs’ of Islamic society under the Abbasid regime, Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Beg; Law and economy in Ifriqiya (Tunisia) in the 3rd Islamic century: agriculture and the role of slaves in the country’s economy, Mohamed Talbi; Labour partnerships in early Islamic law, Abraham L. Udovitch; Index.

O autorze

Michael G. Morony