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
Islamic piety in medieval Syria : mosques, cemeteries and sermons under the Zangids and Ayyūbids (1146-1260) /
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A study of religious thought and practice across a broad social spectrum, but within a well-defined historical context, this book is an interdisciplinary endeavor that incorporates the tools of philology, social-history and historical-anthropology. Focusing on the mosques, public assemblies, cemeteries and shrines of Syrian Muslims in the period of the crusades and the anti-Frankish jihad, the book describes and deciphers religious rites and experiences, liturgical calendars, spiritual leadership, and perceptions of impiety and dissent. Working from a perspective that breaks down the dichotomization of religion into 'official' and 'popular,' it exposes the negotiation, construction and dissemination of hybrid forms of religious life. The result is an intimate and complex presentation of the texture of medieval Islamic piety.
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Extensively revised and expanded edition of the author's Hebrew Ph. D. thesis entitled: Dat ṿe-ḥevrah be-Suryah mi-Nur Aldin ṿe-ʻad la-kibush ha-Mongoli (1154-1260). :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index. :
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Les maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millénaire aux débuts de l"Islam : pratique et...
: 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
Ayyubidische Architektur in Agypten und Syrien : Bautatigkeit im Kontext von Politik und Gesellschaft 564-658/1169-1260 /
: Originally published as the author's dissertation (Universität, Tübingen, 1998). : 2 volumes (239, 300 pages, 48 pages of plates) : 5 genealogical tables, illustrations, plans ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 3927552402