Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Table of contents

• Front matter
  • Contributors
  • Encyclopedia Preface
  • Preface to Central and Southwest Asia
• Part 1: Overview of Dress and Fashion in Central and Southwest Asia
  • Introduction to Dress and Fashion in Central and Southwest Asia
  • Climate, Geography, and Dress
  • History of Dress and Fashion
  • Pre-Islamic Dress Codes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia
  • The Coming of Islam and Its Influence on Dress
  • Jewish Dress in Central and Southwest Asia and the Diaspora
  • Dress Reforms of the Early Twentieth Century in Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan
  • Turkish Fashion Designers
  • ANAT, Syria
  • An Omani Fashion Designer
  • An Afghan Fashion Show
  • Hussein Chalayan: Controversial Fashion Designer or Bridge between East and West?
  • Sources of Information about Dress in Southwest Asia
  • Central and Southwest Asian Dress Studies
• Part 2: Textiles of Central and Southwest Asia
  • Trade, Textiles, and Dress in Central and Southwest Asia
  • Textiles of Central Asia
  • Trade, Textiles, Dress, and the Hajj
  • Tiraz: Textiles and Dress with Inscriptions in Central and Southwest Asia
• Part 3: Anatolia and the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Historical Survey of Textiles and Dress in Turkey
  • Turkish Embroidery
  • Ottoman Dress
  • The Kaftan and Its Origins
  • Royal Dress Preserved at the Topkapi Museum
  • Turkish Costume Albums
  • Regional Dress in Anatolia
  • Dress in Modern Israel
  • Christian Secular, Monastic, and Liturgical Dress in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Arab Men’s Dress in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Palestinian Women’s Dress
  • Palestinian Scarves and Flag Dresses
  • Palestinian Embroidery
  • Embroidery Workshops in Palestine
  • Jordanian Women’s Dress
  • Syria
  • Lebanese Women’s Dress
  • Druze Dress
• Part 4: Arabian Desert and Peninsula
  • Introduction to the History of Dress in the Arabian Desert and Peninsula
  • Bedouin Jewelry
  • Saudi Arabian Dress
  • Yemeni Dress
  • Omani Dress
  • Dress from the Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
  • The Abayeh in Qatar
• Part 5: Iranian Plateau
  • Introduction to the History of Dress on the Iranian Plateau
  • Iraqi Dress
  • Kurdish Dress
  • Early Iranian Textiles and Their Influence on Pre-Islamic Dress
  • Iranian Regional Dress
  • Iranian Urban Dress
  • Reza Shah’s Dress Reforms in Iran
  • Regional Dress of Afghanistan
  • Afghan Dress and the Diaspora
  • Afghan Jewelry
  • Afghan Embroidery
  • The Chadari/Burqa of Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Part 6: Central Asia
  • History of West Turkistan and Its Influence on the Dress of South Central Asia
  • Trouser Wearing by Horse-Riding Nomads in Central Asia
  • Turkmen Dress and Embroidery
  • Dress from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
  • Uzbek Textiles
  • Dress from Kazakhstan
  • Dress from Kyrgyzstan
• Part 7: People and Dress in Central and Southwest Asia
  • Fitrah: Temporary and Permanent Body Modifications for Muslims
  • Henna
  • Indigo
  • Perfume and Incense
  • Weapons and Accessories
  • Birth, Marriage, and Death
  • The Tradition of the Bridal Trousseau
  • Dress and Hadiths (“Traditions” or Sayings Attributed to the Prophet Mohammed)
  • Dress of Shiites and Mystics
  • Islamic Pilgrimage Dress (Ihram)
  • Muharram and Dress
  • Islam and Islamically Correct Dress (Hijab)
  • Laws of Differentiation
  • Sumptuary Laws
  • Khil’a: Clothing to Honor a Person or Situation
  • Face Veils
  • The Turban and Male Headgear
  • Al-Washsha, a Medieval Fashion Guru
  • Orientalism in Western Dress and Stage Costume
  • Dress and Tourism
• Online Exclusives
  • Twenty-First-Century Qatari Abayeh Fashions
  • Silk Clothing as an Economic Factor, Safavid Persia
  • Iranian Headwear in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
  • Iranian Fashion in the Twenty-First Century