Archaeology
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Siraf: History, Topography and Environment [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Author); David Whitehouse (Author); Donald Whitcomb (Author); T. J. Wilkinson (Author)
Regular Price: $76.00
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ISBN: 9781842173947
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph
Volume: 1
Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime tra... .... Learn More -
Historical Topography of Samarra [Paperback]
A. Northedge (Author)
Regular Price: $80.00
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ISBN: 9780903472227
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Samarra Studies
Volume: 1
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban... .... Learn More -
Ayyubid Jerusalem (1187-1250) [Paperback]
Mahmoud K. Hawari (Author)
$90.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9781407300429
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin in 583/1187, after nearly nine decades of Frankish rule, opened a new era of cultural, socio-economic and architectural changes. The renewed political fervour that followed it gave a fresh impetus to an exte... .... Learn More -
Islamic Crosspollinations: Interactions in the Medieval Middle East [Hardback]
James Montgomery (Author); Anna Akasoy (Author); Peter E. Pormann (Author)
$78.00ISBN: 9780906094556
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Series: Gibb Memorial Trust Arabic Studies
Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themsel... .... Learn More -
Daily Life Ornamented: The Medieval Persian City of Rayy (OIMP 26) [Paperback]
Tanya Treptow (Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781885923516
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Museum Publications
Volume: 26
Archaeologists work with broken fragments to build pictures of life in past societies. In many excavations, the most abundant fragments we work with are broken pieces of ceramic vessels and objects (we call them "sherds"), which we find by the ... .... Learn More -
Historical Topography of Samarra [Hardback]
A. Northedge (Author)
$110.00ISBN: 9780903472173
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
Series: Samarra Studies
Volume: 1
This is the first fundamentally new work to come out in half a century on one of the world's most famous Islamic archaeological sites: Samarra, in Iraq. This capital of the Abbasid caliphs in the 9th century is not only one of the largest urban... .... Learn More -
The Towns of Palestine under Muslim Rule AD 600-1600 [Paperback]
Andrew Petersen (Author)
$87.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841718217
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This book is an investigation of the towns of Palestine under Muslim rule from AD 600 to AD 1600. The primary form of evidence is archaeological reports though historical sources are also used. Three questions are addressed: 1) Did the towns of... .... Learn More -
The Land of Enki in the Islamic Era [Hardback]
Timothy Insoll (Author)
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ISBN: 9780710309600
Published by : Kegan Paul International Ltd.
This book presents the results of an archaeological research project which aimed to investigate the little known period between the 6th and 13th centuries AD. Technologies such as pearl diving and pottery manufacture, as well as animal keeping ... .... Learn More -
The Ilkhanid Heartland: Hasanlu Tepe (Iran) Period I [Hardback]
Michael D Danti (Author)
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ISBN: 9781931707664
Published by : Univ Pennsylvania Museum Pubs
The Ilkhanid Heartland provides the first source on the fortified medieval (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) settlement of Hasanlu Tepe in the western Azerbaigian province of Iran. Key problems addressed include the nature and dates of the ... .... Learn More -
Problemi di urbanistica giustinianea: Le città della Siria e della Mesopotamia [Paperback]
Paola Carita (Author)
$107.50Out of stock
ISBN: 9781841713687
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This fourth volume in a series devoted to medieval topography looks at issues of urbanism in a number of Byzantine cities along the eastern frontier during the reign of Justinian (AD 527-565). Archaological and documentary evidence are cited fo... .... Learn More