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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2016]
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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
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| 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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