The book of travels : kitāb al-siyāḥah /
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"Ḥannā Diyāb's account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again"--
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Title and statement of responsibility appear on pages.
Text and parallel translation of manuscript class marked 254, Sbath collection, Vatican Apostolic Library. :
2 v. ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781479810949
9781479892303
9781479806300
Damascus life 1480-1500 : a report of a local notary /
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"In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary Boaz Shoshan offers a microhistory of the largest Syrian city at the end of the Mamluk period and on the eve of the Ottoman conquest. Mainly based on a partly preserved diary, the earliest available of its kind and written by Ibn Ṭawq, a local notary, it portrays the life of a lower middle class who originated from the countryside and who, through marriage, was able to become a legal clerk and associate with scholars and bureaucrats. His diary does not only provide us with unique information on his family, social circle and the general situation in Damascus, but it also sheds light on subjects of which little is known, such as the functioning of the legal system, marriage and divorce, bourgeois property and the mores of the common people".
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004413269
East and West in late antiquity : invasion, settlement, ethnogenesis and conflicts of religion /
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East and West in Late Antiquity combines published and unpublished articles by emeritus professor Wolf Liebeschuetz. The collection concerns aspects of what Gibbon called 'the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'. This interpretation is now much criticized, but the author agrees with Gibbon. Topics discussed are defensive strategies, the settlement inside the Empire of invaders and immigrants, and the modification of identities with the formation of new communities. Liebeschuetz is interested in both the eastern and the western halves of the Empire. In the East he is particularly concerned with Syria, the expansion of settlement up to the edge of the desert, and Christianisation. The book ends with an examination of the role of the Christian Arab Ghassanids in the defense of the Syrian provinces in the century leading up to the conquest of the provinces by the Islamic Arabs.
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1 online resource (xxix, 477 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004289529 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Umayyad legacies : medieval memories from Syria to Spain /
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The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus - Islamic Spain - from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies - what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements - are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.
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Includes selected papers from a conference organized by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) and the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute held in Damascus, Syria, June 29-July 2, 2006. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004190986 :
0929-2403 ; :
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Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman rule : essays in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq /
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"The papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq held in 2004 at the Orient-Institut in Beirut (28-30 May) and at l'Institut français du Proche-Orient in Damascus (1-2 June)"--Acknowl. :
1 online resource. :
"Bibliography of Abdul-Karim Rafeq's Published Works (to April 2010)": pages [47]-56.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-624) and index. :
9789004191044 :
1380-6076 ; :
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Qal'at Sem'an /
: At head of title: "Mission francaise de Qal'at Sem'an." "Ouvrage publie avec le concours de la direction generale de la Cooperation interntaionale et du Developpement du ministere des Affaires etrangeres." French; abstracts in French, English, and Arabic; added title page, table of contents, and introduction in Arabic. : 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9782351597279
Les maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millénaire aux débuts de l"Islam : pratique et représentations de l'espace domestique : actes du Colloque International, Damas, 27-30 juin...
: At head of title : Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth, Damas, Amman. : xvii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 270530567X
Early Islamic Syria : an archaeological assessment /
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"This book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly before, and in the two centuries after, the Islamic expansion (the later sixth to the early ninth century AD), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from recent archaeological work. Alan Walmsley challenges conventional explanations for social change with the arrival of Islam, arguing forconsiderable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever -growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria- Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven."--Jacket.
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176 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index