Truth, Vision, and the Market: Selling Religion in the Suqs of Damascus

This article examines merchants' shop displays in the marketplaces of Damascus, Syria, with a focus on Islamic texts and images. In Damascus, most merchants' businesses, from the air-conditioned to the mobile vending cart, are decorated with a wide range of religious props, photographs, po...

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Main Author: McClellan, Kate (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2016]
In: Material religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 12, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-456
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Damascus / Market place / Decoration / Islam / Text / Picture / Votive figure
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Islam
B Visual Culture
B MARKETPLACES
B Syria
B Decoration
B Display
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