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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /
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For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing angle: the current work of his former students. The papers in this volume range chronologically from the period preceding the rise of Islam in Arabia to the Mamluk era, geographically from the Western Mediterranean to the Western Indian Ocean and thematically from the political negotiations of Christian and Islamic Mediterranean sovereigns to the historiography of Western Indian Ocean port cities.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004214736 :
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'Middle Saxon' settlement and society /
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Duncan Wright explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidence, he shows how the settlements in which people lived provide a unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911263 (PDF ebook) :
'Middle Saxon' settlement and society /
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Duncan Wright explores the experiences of rural communities who lived between the seventh and ninth centuries in central and eastern England. Combining archaeology with documentary, place-name and topographic evidence, he shows how the settlements in which people lived provide a unique insight into social, economic and political conditions in 'Middle Saxon' England.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784911263 (PDF ebook) :
Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East : Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period /
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The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the emphasis of its predecessors on understanding and appreciating the legacy of the Safavid period by means of exchanges between both established and 'newer' scholars drawn from a variety of fields to facilitate an exchange of ideas, information, and methodologies across a broad range of academic disciplines between scholars from diverse disciplines and research backgrounds with a common interest in the history and culture of this period of Iran's history.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047401711
9789004127746
Architecture et société au Proche-Orient ancien : les bâtisseurs de mémoire en Mésopotamie (7000-3000 av. J.-C.) /
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Dans le contexte actuel de destruction et pillage des sites archéologiques du Proche-Orient, il est plus que jamais nécessaire de publier les découvertes qui se sont multipliées en Syrie, en Iran ou en Turquie, pour proposer une nouvelle lecture de la naissance de l'urbanisme et de la civilisation en Mésopotamie. Grand connaisseur des fouilles menées ces dernières décennies au Proche-Orient, Pascal Butterlin centre son propos sur la manière dont les sociétés villageoises du Proche-Orient ancien ont entamé, dés le V millénaire, un processus de transformations socio-économiques qui ont abouti à différentes formes d'étatisation ou pour certaines d'entre elles à des formes variées de tribalité. Ce livre se conçoit comme une micro-écologie de la naissance d'Etats marqués d'abord par leur diversité avant des tentatives politiques éphémères d'unification. Il s'agit donc, dans cet ouvrage novateur ; de dessiner les contours du premier décollage mésopotamien, produit d'interactions culturelles de grande ampleur dès la fin du Ve millénaire.
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512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-500) and index. :
2708410385
9782708410381 (hbk.) :
1264-1723
Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society /
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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE" --
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x, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521764438
Legal documents as sources for the history of Muslim societies : studies in honour of Rudolph Peters /
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This volume is a tribute to the work of legal and social historian and Arabist Rudolph Peters (University of Amsterdam). Presenting case studies from different periods and areas of the Muslim world, the book examines the use of legal documents for the study of the history of Muslim societies. From examinations of the conceptual status of legal documents to comparative studies of the development of legal formulae and the socio-economic or political historical information documents contain, the aim is to approach legal documents as specialised texts belonging to a specific social domain, while simultaneously connecting them to other historical sources. It discusses the daily functioning of legal institutions, the reflections of regime changes on legal documentation, daily life, and the materiality of legal documents. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Léon Buskens, Khaled Fahmy, Aharon Layish, Sergio Carro Martín, Brinkley Messick, Toru Miura, Christian Müller, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Mathieu Tillier, and Amalia Zomeño.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004343733 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The ancient Near East : history, society and economy /
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"Originally published in Italian as Antico Oriente ©1988, 2011, Gius. Laterza & Figli."
Translation of : Antico Oriente. :
xxiv, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 580-599) and index. :
9780415679060 :
shimaa
The Ottoman Middle East : studies in honor of Amnon Cohen /
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This collection of articles discusses various political, social, cultural and economic aspects of the Ottoman Middle East. By using various textual and visual documents, produced in the Ottoman Empire, the collection offers new insights into the matrix of life during the long period of Ottoman rule. The different parts of the volume explore the main topics studied by Amnon Cohen: Ottoman Palestine, Egypt and the Fertile Crescent under Ottoman rule, Ottoman Jews and their relations with the surrounding societies and various social aspects of Ottoman societies.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004262966
The fabric of cities : aspects of urbanism, urban topography and society in Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome /
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The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004262348