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The textile industry in Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt: continuity and change

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This thesis focuses on the Egyptian textile industry during the transition from Byzantine to Islamic rule (6th-11th centuries), in an effort to trace the changes that occurred. The innovative elements are, on one hand, the attempt to combine information from the primary written sources, both Greek and Arabic, and the material evidence, namely the textiles themselves, and, on the other hand the attempt to connect any changes with their social, political and economic background. The textiles...

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University of Oxford
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Wolfson College
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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2024-07-26

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