The Bazaar in the Islamic City

Description

A comprehensive study of the fascinating Middle Eastern and Arab bazaar (including Egypt, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Palestine, Turkey, and Iran)
The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics of the bazaar with a number of case studies from Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, Nablus, Bursa, Istanbul, Sana'a, Kabul, Tehran, and Yazd. Although they share some contextual and functional characteristics, each bazaar has its own unique and fascinating history, traditions, cultural practices, and structure. One of the most intriguing aspects revealed in this volume is the thread of continuity from past to present exhibited by the bazaar as a forum where a society meets and intermingles in the practice of goods exchange-a social and cultural ritual that is as old as human history.
Foreword and acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Culture and Politics of Commerce: Bazaars in the Islamic World
Mohammad Gharipour
Chapter 2
Ideal-Type and Urban History: The Development of the Suq in Damascus
Nasser Rabbat
Chapter 3
Making of the Old City: Suq al-Hamidiyeh in Damascus
Faedah Totah
Chapter 4
Commerce in the Emerging Empire: Formation of the Ottoman Trade Center in Bursa
Özlem Bagbanci
Chapter 5
Continuity of the Social Space: The Khan al-Jumruk within the Bazaars of Aleppo
Janet Starkey
Chapter 6
Changing Functions and Symbolic Centrality: The Suqs of Sana'a
Franck Mermier
Chapter 7
Crafts and Trade: Public Markets in Nablus
Naseer Arafat
Chapter 8
From Pre-Industrial to Industrial: Bazaars versus Workshops in Kabul
Marcus Schadl
Chapter 9
Politics and Patronage: The Evolution of the Sara-ye Amir in the Bazaar of Tehran
Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
Chapter 10
On the Route to Modernity: The Case of the Valide Khan of Istanbul
Andrea Duranti
Chapter 11
Form and Function: Politics and the Morphology of the Bazaar in Yazd
Ali Modarres
Chapter 12
New Trinkets in Old Spaces: Cairo's Khan al-Khalili and the Question of Authenticity
Anna Madeuf and Marika Snider
Bibliography

Sujets

• Middle Est
• Histoire
• History

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• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781617973468
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Chapter 4 was developed from “Formation of the Historical Commercial Centre in Bursa, the First Capital City of Ottoman Empire,” World Applied Sciences Journal 4, no. 3 (2008): 343–48, and “investigation of the Change and Transformation Period of Bursa Khans region Due to the Physical and socio-Economic Properties,” (RE/DE) Constructions in Architecture , Proceedings of the 4th international Conference of livable Environments and Architecture, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Trabzon, July 9–11, 2009. Reproduced by permission.

Chapter 11 was derived from Modernizing Yazd: Selective Historical Memory and the Fate of Vernacular Architecture (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2006). Reproduced by permission.

Dar el Kutub No. 11214/11
IS BN 978 977 416 529 0

Dar el Kutub Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gharipour, Mohammad
      The Bazaar in the islamic City: Design, Culture, and History/ Mohammad Gharipour.—Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2012
      p.   cm.
      ISBN 978 977 416 529 0
            1. Bazaars (Markets) I. Islamic Countries
      725.21091767

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Designed by Adam el-Sehemy
Contents

List of Tables 

List of Illustrations 

Contributors 

Acknowledgments  1. Introduction The Culture and Politics of Commerce: Bazaars in the Islamic World  Mohammad Gharipour 2. Ideal-type and Urban History: The Development of the Suq in Damascus  Nasser Rabbat 3. The Making of the Old City: Suq al-Hamidiya in Damascus  Faedah M. Totah 4. Commerce in the Emerging Empire: Formation of the Ottoman Trade Center in Bursa  Özlem Köprülü Bağ bancı 5. The Continuity of Social Space: Khan al-Jumruk within the Bazaars of Aleppo  Janet Starkey 6. The Suqs of Sanaa: Changing Functions and Symbolic Centrality  Franck Mermier 7. Crafts and Trade: Public Markets in Nablus  Naseer Arafat 8. From Pre-industrial to Industrial Kabul: The Bazaars and the Manufactories  Marcus Schadl 9. Politics and Patronage: The Evolution of the Sara-ye Amir in the Bazaar of Tehran  Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian 10. A Caravanserai on the Route to Modernity: The Case of the Valide Han of Istanbul  Andrea Duranti 11. Form and Function: On Politics and the Morphology of the Bazaar in Yazd  Ali Modarres 12. New Trinkets in Old Spaces: Cairo’s Khan al-Khalili and the Question of Authenticity  Anna Madoeuf and Marika Snider
Tables
Table
4.1:
The historical evolution of commercial buildings in the Khans Region at the end of the sixteenth century. 
4.2:
The commercial bazaars in the Khans Region, Bursa. 
4.3:
Building materials and construction techniques of masonry walls of the khans and bazaars of the Khans Region, Bursa. 
Illustrations
Figure
1.1:
The grand bazaar in Tabriz, Iran. 
1.2:
Bazaar in Bushehr, Iran. 
1.3:
Street market street in Agra, India. 
1.4:
Vendor in the market in Kashgar, China. 
1.5:
Flags of Turkey in the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey. 
1.6:
The bazaar in Bandar Lengeh, Iran. 
1.7:
Kadiköy fish market, Istanbul, Turkey. 
1.8:
Street market in Sukadana, Indonesia. 
1.9:
The market street leading to the city mosque in Laar, Iran. 
1.10:
The brick dome in the bazaar in Kerman, Iran. 
1.11:
Fabric-made roof in the market in Seville, Spain. 
1.12:
Mahane Yehuda Shuk (suq) in Jerusalem. 
1.13:
The wooden roof in a local market in Bushehr, Iran. 
1.14:
The intersection of two streets in the Bazaar in Isfahan, Iran. 
1.15:
The market street in Istanbul, Turkey. 
1.16:
Qaysariya (Alcaiceria) in Granada, Spain. 
1.17:
Hadem Ali Pasha Bedestan in Yambol, Bulgaria. 
1.18:
Samsara Nahhas in Sanaa, Yemen. 
1.19:
Funduq Al-Mizrane in Fez, Morocco. 
1.20:
Souvenir market in Dezful, Iran. 
1.21:
Contemporary covered market in Bekasi, Java, Indonesia. 
1.22:
Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. 
2.1:
Reconstruction of the Roman city plan. 
2.2:
Plan of the Suwayqa of Darb Bab Jayrun, east of the Umayyad Mosque. 
2.3:
Location of main commercial activities in Damascus in the twelfth century. 
2.4:
Plan of Damascus and its suburbs in the thirteenth century. 
2.5:
Plan of Suq Taht al-Qal‘a. 
2.6:
Plan of Damascus and its suburbs in the fifteenth century. 
2.7:
Plan of Damascus and its suburbs in the eighteenth century. 
2.8:
Concentration of khans in the Center of Damascus. 
3.1:
Entrance to Suq al-Hamidiya. 
3.2:
Itinerant peddlers in Suq al-Hamidiya. 
4.1:
Bedesten. 
4.2:
Geyve Khan. 
4.3:
Yorgancilar Bazaar. 
4.4:
Tuz Khan. 
4.5:
Koza Khan. 
4.6:
Bedesten centered trade center. 
4.7:
The roads in the Khans Region at the turn of the twentieth century. 
5.1:
Plan of the Hellenistic and later Roman city and bazaars of Beroea. 
5.2:
Layout of the Khan-al-Jumruk and associated bazaars. 
5.3:
Plan of the Khan al-Jumruk and associated suq at the core of the Aleppine bazaar. 
5.4:
Khan al-Jumruk complex ground plan. 
5.5:
Khan al-Jumruk interior. 
5.6:
Khan al-Jumruk interior courtyard with Ottoman mosque and boutiques. 
6.1:
Bab al-Yaman, the old city main gate. 
6.2:
Warehouse (samsara) of al-Majjah. 
6.3:
Warehouse (samsara) of Customs (al-Jumruk) interior. 
7.1.
Central area of the Old City where the two khans are located. 
7.2.
Section of the khan and the façade of the Old City behind it. 
7.3.
The New Khan Market. 
7.4.
Plan of the al-Khan Market.
7.5:
al-Yusur Arafat caravanserai in the western market.

7.6:
The old cloth market. 
7.7:
Metal works for home furniture. 
7.8:
Bookshop in the Old City. 
8.1:
Plan of Kabul, ca. 1890. 
8.2:
The remains of the Chahār Chatta Bazaar in the 1920s. 
8.3:
Blacksmiths at work in the bazaar in 1915/16. 
8.4:
The Kabul workshops from southwest in the late 1920s. 
8.5:
The interior of the large production shed in 2004. 
9.1:
Plan of Sara-ye Amir. 
9.2:
Engraving of the main ayvan of the original Sara-ye Amir. 
9.3:
Full view of the second surviving ayvan arch. 
9.4:
Surviving orosi window. 
9.5:
A third partly surviving smaller arch. 
9.6:
Massive wooden door opening onto one of the bazaar’s wider alleys. 
10.1:
Bazaar street leading to Valide Han. 
10.2:
Plan of the Valide Han. 
10.3:
The open courtyard and the Iranians’ mosque. 
10.4:
The corridor connecting the main street of the bazaar in Istanbul to the Valide Han. 
10.5:
Stores within the Valide Han. 
10.7.
Corridor at the second tier of the Valide Khan. 
11.1:
Layout of the bazaar in Yazd. 
11.2:
Urban Growth Pattern in the city of Yazd. 
11.3:
The old bazaar in Yazd. 
11.4:
Entrance to the Sadri bazaar from Hosseinieh Shah-zadeh Fazel. 
12.1:
General Plan of Khan al-Khalili. 
12.2:
Bab al-Badistan, Khan al-Khalili. 
12.3:
Street showing variety of merchandise and differing levels of building preservation. 
Between pages XX and XX. Plate
1.1:
Fish market in Rasht, Iran.
1.2:
Street Market in Cordoba, Spain.
1.3:
Temporary market in Samarqand, Uzbekistan.
1.4:
Ahmadabad vegetable market, India.
1.5:
San Stefano Mall in Alexandria, Egypt.
2.1:
View of Khan As‘ad Pasha.
2.2:
al-Khazna at the Umayyad Mosque.
3.1:
Columns enframing stores, Suq al-Hamidiya.
4.1:
The historical evolution of commercial buildings, Khans Region, sixteenth century.
4.2:
The historical evolution of monumental buildings, Khans Region, nineteenth century.
5.1:
View from the upper terrace looking toward the eastern side of the Khan.
5.2:
Wholesale textile shops and warehouses in courtyard of Khan al-Jumruk.
6.1:
General view of main artery of the suq in Sanaa.
6.2:
Warehouse (samsara) of Muhammad ibn Hasan.
9.1:
Much-adulterated exterior façade of the Emamzade Zeid.
10.1
Entrance of the Valide Han.
11.1:
Much-adulterated exterior façade of the Emamzade Zeid.
12.1:
Shops selling ‘traditional’ souvenirs, Khan al-Khalili.
12.2:
Shops along small alley in Khan al-Khalili.
12.3:
Restored gate within the Khan al-Khalili.
12.4:
Map of inventory of shops in Khan al-Khalili.
Contributors
Naseer Arafat is an architect and development and planning specialist in Nablus. He has studie