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"The musical tradition of ma'lūf is believed to have reached North Africa with Muslim and Jewish refugees escaping the Christian reconquista of Spain between the tenth and seventeenth centuries. Although this Arab Andalusian music has been studied in other parts of the region, until now the Libyan version has not received Western scholarly attention. This book explores the place of this orally transmitted tradition in Libyan life and culture. It investigates the people that make ma'lūf and the institutions that nuture it as much as the traditional itself. Patronage, music making, discourse about life and music, history, and ideology all unite in a musical tradition which is richly intriguing and intricate beneath its seemingly simple surface"--Page 4 of cover.

78.32.1 --- Muziekgeschiedenis --- Etnomusicologie --- Ma'lūf --- Music --- Songs, Arabic --- Arabs --- History and criticism

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Arabs --- Clothing and dress --- Embroidery --- Islamic decoration and ornament --- Needlework --- Textile crafts --- Textile industry --- Clothing --- History --- History --- History

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Bedouin --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Jordan --- Bedouins --- Bédouins --- Material culture --- Culture matérielle --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Bédouins --- Culture matérielle --- Material culture.

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This richly illustrated volume is a historical and ethnographic study of one important aspect of Arab and Islamic material culture - clothing. While in part descriptive, its principal focus is on the evolution and transformations of modes of dress over the past 1400 years throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and for the Middle Ages, Islamic Spain. Arab clothing is treated as part of an Islamic vestimentary system and is discussed within the context of the social, religious, esthetic, and political trends of each age. In addition to the five historical chapters, three chapters are devoted to major themes of Arab costume history - the dress code for non-Muslims, the important socio-economic and political institution of luxury fabrics and garments of honor, and the most well-known and frequently misunderstood institution of veiling.

Arabs --- Clothing and dress --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Clothing. --- History. --- History