Early Islamic Syria : an archaeological assessment /
"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. A...
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Language: English
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London :
Duckworth,
2007.
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Duckworth debates in archeology.
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Call Number: DS94.5 .W35 2007
Table of Contents:
- •List of Illustrations •Preface •1. Defining Islamic archaeology in Syria-Palestine •2. After Justinian, 565-635 CE •The condition of towns in the later sixth century •The impact of multiple conquests •3. Material culture and society •Pottery and early Islamic society •Numismatics, government and social change •Craft goods, exotica and prestige items •Material culture, archaeology and early Islamic transformations •4. Sites and settlement processes •A formal urban hierarchy •Urban Archaeology •Existing towns: tradition, additions and renewal •New establishments •Settlements with intent •Rural settlement profiles •Site histories and settlement processes •5. Life •Food •Industry •Religious life •Housing and domestic life •Environment, landscape and the human factor •6. Prospects: ongoing debates in Islamic archaeology •The archaeology of late antique Arab society •Qur'anic archaeology •'Gap' archaeology in the post-Umayyad period •Looking beyond the longue duree: resilience theory •A concluding note •Brief chronology of early Islamic Arabia and Syria-Palestine •Glossary •Bibliography •Index