Brill 2020 Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World volume 16

All Things Arabia
Arabian Identity and Material Culture

Part 1
Arabia of the Old: The Things of the Trade
Frankincense and Its Arabian Burner 23
William Gerard Zimmerle

The Tyranny of the Pearl: Desire, Oppression, and Nostalgia in the Lower Gulf 43
Victoria Penziner Hightower

Palm Dates, Power, and Politics in Pre-Oil Kuwait 54
Eran Segal

Part 2
Imagining Arabia: Exotic, Fabulous, and Misplaced Things
Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination 69
Ileana Baird

“Who Will Change New Lamps for Old Ones?”: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in British and American Children’s Entertainment 88
Jennie MacDonald

Creative Cartography: From the Arabian Desert to the Garden of Allah 105
Holly Edwards

Part 3
Emblems of Arabia: Things as Identity Markers Kinetic Symbol: Falconry as Image Vehicle in the United Arab Emirates 127
Yannis Hadjinicolaou

Al-Sadu Weaving: Significance and Circulation in the Arabian Gulf 143
Rana Al-Ogayyel and Ceyda Oskay

Head Coverings, Arab Identity, and New Materialism 163
Joseph Donica

Arabia: Things, Memory, and Local Identity Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman 179
James Redman

From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry 193
Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown

Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem’s Cinemascape 213
Chrysavgi Papagianni

Afterword: All Things Collected 225
Hülya Yağcıoğlu

Bibliography 231 Index 258

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