Costumes of Egypt

The Lost Legacies, I

By (author) Shahira Mehrez

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Extent: 406, 406 pages

Publisher: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Series: Bibliotheque generale

Series volume number: 68

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2000)

ISBN: 9782724709216

Price: $94.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2000)

ISBN: 9782724710212

Price: $76.00

Costumes of Egypt: The Lost Legacies sums up decades of Shahira Mehrez’s research: it is a four-volume work recording and tracing the origin of hitherto undocumented ways of dressing and jewelry of Egyptian women, most of which have today become obsolete. The costumes surveyed in this first volume establish the fact that irrespective of distant geographic locations, beyond religious and ethnic diversity, and throughout thousands of years of history and successive civilizations, Nubians, Nile Valley peasants, Bedouins and oasis dwellers, both Christian and Muslim, were heirs to the same legacy. Old and new emblems were melted into one tradition, defining a multifaceted but harmonious Egyptian identity. This tradition provides undeniable and tangible proof of the unity of the country and bears witness to the fact that throughout history these various communities were the different parts of a multicultural and pluralistic nation.

  • By (author) Shahira Mehrez