Instrumental Jawārī
Female domestic slaves designated as jawārī (sing. jāriya) featured in a range of medieval Arabic sources, including treatises on the mechanical arts. They appeared, for example, as liquid-serving devices and timekeepers. Scholarship on automated jawārī, however, has been scant; little, in fact, ha...
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Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2023-09-01
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Series: | Al-'Usur al-Wusta |
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Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/10486 |