The Settlement Patterns In The Jordan Valley In The Mid To Late Islamic Period

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The Settlement Patterns in the Jordan Valley in the Mid- to Late Islamic Period

Author : Jumʼa Mahmoud H. Kareem
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book The Settlement Patterns in the Jordan Valley in the Mid- to Late Islamic Period written by Jumʼa Mahmoud H. Kareem and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of historical research and fieldwork are used in this study of changing patterns of social and economic development in the Jordan Valley from AD1250 to AD1914. A historical framework and background information on the geology, geography and ecology of the region are supplemented by excavations at the site of Dhra' el-Khan and the results of archaeological survey by the eastern Jordan Valley Survey Project. Evidence of settlement patterns and occupation density, material culture and especially pottery and small find assemblages, are finally brought together in a historical overview of the period.

History and Society During the Mamluk Period (1250-1517)

Author : Stephan Conermann
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3847102281
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book History and Society During the Mamluk Period (1250-1517) written by Stephan Conermann and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a person starts to study the 250-some years of the Mamluk Era in Egypt and Syria (12501517), one characteristic of that period stands out immediately the very unusual polarization of its society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manu-mitted military slaves who sought to regenerate themselves continuously through a self-imposed fiat. The only person who could become a Mamluk was a Turk who had been born free outside the Islamic territories as a non-Muslim, then enslaved, brought to Egypt as a slave, converted to Islam, freed, and finally, trained as a warrior. Only those who met these prerequisites were members of the ruling stratum with all the concomitant political, military, and economic advantages. On this historically unique model of a society, Stephan Conermann has published a series of seminal articles. In this edited volume the reader gets an excellent introduction to some of the central issues of the ongoing research on the Mamluk history and society.

History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517)

Author : Bethany J. Walker
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847011502
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) written by Bethany J. Walker and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of research essays submitted by fellows of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, an Advanced Center of Research in Mamluk Studies. It covers three themes, which correspond to the research agenda of the final three academic years of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg. These were: environmental history, material culture studies, and im/mobility. The aim of the contributions is to overcome the disciplinary boundaries of the field and to engage in scholarly debates in Ottoman Studies, European history, archae-ology and art history, and even the natural sciences.

Introduction to Islamic Archaeology

Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748696520
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Islamic Archaeology written by Marcus Milwright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present, evaluating the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture.

Connectivity in Antiquity

Author : Oystein S. LaBianca
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134946287
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Connectivity in Antiquity written by Oystein S. LaBianca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are the less danger they pose to global stability. But is this a 'new' idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back as prehistory were responsible for the exchange of ideas as well as goods, leading to the rapid expansion of states and empires. 'Connectivity in Antiquity' brings together a team of influential scholars to examine the process of globalization in antiquity. The essays examine metallurgy, social evolution, economic growth and the impact of religious pilgrimage, and range across the eastern Mediterranean, Syria, the Transjordan, south Yemen, and Egypt. 'Connectivity in Antiquity' will be of value to all those interested in the relationship between antiquity and modern globalisation.

International Handbook of Historical Archaeology

Author : Teresita Majewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387720715
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis International Handbook of Historical Archaeology by : Teresita Majewski

Download or read book International Handbook of Historical Archaeology written by Teresita Majewski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.

Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East

Author : Henry Innes MacAdam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351728180
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East by : Henry Innes MacAdam

Download or read book Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East written by Henry Innes MacAdam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The first articles look at questions of geography, cartography and toponymy, particularly in Strabo, Pliny and Ptolemy. The following sections are concerned with settlement patterns and urban development in the region. In the Roman and early Byzantine periods, the inland areas underwent a gradual transformation, from a semi-sedentary, lightly populated and predominantly rural region, to one of large cities and a network of prosperous, socially sophisticated villages, linked by a network of roads. That change is documented by a wealth of epigraphy from both the urban communities and their outlying settlements (the subject of several articles). By the 4th century, too, Christianity had become the dominant religion and remained such until the arrival of Islam.

Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries)

Author : Balázs Major
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784912050
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries) by : Balázs Major

Download or read book Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries) written by Balázs Major and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries.

The Fortress of the Raven

Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004165193
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress of the Raven written by Marcus Milwright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In c.1142 work started on the construction of a major castle in the southern Jordanian town of Karak. The largest of a network of fortifications, Karak castle became the administrative centre of an important Crusader lordship. After 1188 Karak and its territories were incorporated into the Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates. This book traces the history of Karak and the surrounding lands during the Middle Islamic period (c.1100-1650 CE). The book offers an innovative methodology, combining primary textual sources (in Latin and Arabic) with archaeological data (principally the ceramic record) as a means to reconstruct the fluctuating economic relations between Karak and other regions of the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean.

The Madaba Plains Project

Author : Douglas R. Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134939213
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Madaba Plains Project written by Douglas R. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of Mabada Plains Project archaeological research in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Madaba Plains Project is one of the longest-lived, continuously running archaeological excavation projects in the Middle East. Spanning four decades, the project, with its beginnings at Tall Hisban in the late sixties, has engaged 1,500 participants, produced scores of publications and spawned a dozen other projects. Its legacy includes being one of the first major Near Eastern archaeology projects to adopt a multi-millennial, regional approach; to incorporate ethnoarchaeology and environmental studies; to construct data around a food-systems' approach; and to computerize procedures for archaeological data acquisition and analysis, thus helping advance both the theoretical underpinnings and the field methods of archaeology in the southern Levant and beyond. Madaba Plains Project directors, wishing to celebrate this major scientific and historical milestone, have produced this anniversary volume which: highlights the value of ongoing collaborative research across the region of central Jordan, attempting to explain life and survival from the Bronze ages through the Islamic and early modern periods and features the latest results from ongoing research; enlivens the discussion by hearing from major scholars in the field who, in the process of assessing the contributions of the project to the archaeology of the southern Levant, broaden the discussion in the context of ancient Near Eastern archaeological research; and, expands the horizons of the project's research by presenting the ever enlarging number and extent of projects conducted by dig directors once on staff with the Madaba Plains Project, thereby taking readers all over Jordan and beyond.

Landscapes of the Islamic World

Author : Stephen McPhillips
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247647
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes of the Islamic World written by Stephen McPhillips and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes of the Islamic World presents new work by twelve authors on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian peninsula, and central Asia. The focus looks beyond the city to engage with the predominantly rural and pastoral character of premodern Islamic society.

Everything is on the Move

Author : Stephan Conermann
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847002740
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Everything is on the Move written by Stephan Conermann and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, we try to understand the "Mamluk Empire" not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time. In our opinion, these networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following, in part, concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the phenomenon of the "Empire – State", trajectories in today's Global History, and the spatial turn in modern historiography, we intend to identify a number of physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.

Material Evidence and Narrative Sources

Author : Daniella J. Talmon-Heller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279660
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Material Evidence and Narrative Sources written by Daniella J. Talmon-Heller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.

Reapproaching Borders

Author : Sandra Marlene Sufian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742546394
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Reapproaching Borders written by Sandra Marlene Sufian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Territorial borders, identity borders, and many other kinds of social and cultural borders are constantly questioned in Israel-Palestine. Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel-Palestine explores the concept of borders, how they are imagined and actualized in this deeply contested land. The book focuses on the 'implicate relations' between Palestinian Arabs and Jews, providing new insights into the origins and dynamics of the conflicts between them. Emphasizing the history of the non-elite members of both communities, the book sees the relations between Jews and Palestinian Arabs as embedded and reflected in areas of daily living, such as in the spheres of architecture, commerce, health sexuality, and the courts. Using the voices of the new generation of scholars, Reapproaching Borders demonstrates the continued saliency of older themes such as ownership and rights to the land, but as they intersect with the newer areas of inquiry, such as sexual identity politics and spatial relations.

Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem

Author : Kay Prag
Publisher : Council for British Research in the Levant
ISBN 13 : 9781842173046
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem written by Kay Prag and published by Council for British Research in the Levant. This book was released on 2008 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in the series of final reports on the work of the Joint Expedition to Jerusalem in the 1960s describes the discoveries made in six sites in the ancient city and places them in the archaeological and historical context of Jerusalem and the surrounding lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the location of the southern defence line in Herodian and Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an Umayyad palatial structure. There is fresh information on the civic amenities of the southern half of the Byzantine city, and on the structure of the Ottoman city defences built under Sulaiman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century. Fine glazed pottery, both locally made and imported, and the wide range of materials reaching Jerusalem through trade and pilgrimage, reflect elite patronage and the high status of the holy city under Islamic rule.

The Call of Bilal

Author : Edward E. Curtis IV
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618125
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Call of Bilal written by Edward E. Curtis IV and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people in the African diaspora practice Islam? While the term "Black Muslim" may conjure images of Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, millions of African-descended Muslims around the globe have no connection to the American-based Nation of Islam. The Call of Bilal is a penetrating account of the rich diversity of Islamic religious practice among Africana Muslims worldwide. Covering North Africa and the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Europe, and the Americas, Edward E. Curtis IV reveals a fascinating range of religious activities--from the observance of the five pillars of Islam and the creation of transnational Sufi networks to the veneration of African saints and political struggles for racial justice. Weaving together ethnographic fieldwork and historical perspectives, Curtis shows how Africana Muslims interpret not only their religious identities but also their attachments to the African diaspora. For some, the dispersal of African people across time and space has been understood as a mere physical scattering or perhaps an economic opportunity. For others, it has been a metaphysical and spiritual exile of the soul from its sacred land and eternal home.

The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology

Author : Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351786245
Total Pages : 1077 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology written by Charles E. Orser, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 1077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today’s historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field. The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity within individual chapters, while building to a cumulative overview of the field of historical archaeology as it stands, and where it could go next. Archaeological research is discussed in the context of current sociological concerns, different approaches and techniques are assessed, and potential advances are posited. This is a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline, engaging key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially-commissioned geographical overviews to complement the more theoretical explorations. This book is designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have an interest in historical archaeology. Archaeologists, historians, preservationists, and all scholars interested in the role historical archaeology plays in illuminating daily life during the past five centuries will find this volume engaging and enlightening.