Islamic World & Culture
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The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny [Paperback]
Ronald A. Messier (Author); James A. Miller (Author)
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ISBN: 9781477311356
Published by : University of Texas Press
Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as a... .... Learn More -
Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History and Ethnography [Hardback]
Stephen McPhillips (Editor); Paul D. Wordsworth (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780812247640
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Islamic societies of the past have often been characterized as urban, with rural and other extra-urban landscapes cast in a lesser or supporting role in the studies of Islamic history and archaeology. Yet throughout history, the countryside was fr... .... Learn More -
The Heirs of Muhammad [Hardback]
Barnaby Rogerson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781585678969
Published by : Overlook Press
A lively narrative account of the rise and phenomenal expansion of Islam, and of the lives of the first four Caliphs, as well as the split between the Sunni and Shia branches of the religion. .... Learn More -
Byzantium and Islam [Hardback]
Helen Evans (Author); Brandie Ratliff (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300179507
Published by : Yale University Press
This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant, diverse areas of North Af... .... Learn More -
Archaeology of the Frontier in the Medieval Near East [Hardback]
Scott Redford (Author)
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ISBN: 9780924171659
Published by : Archaeological Institute of America
Excavations that begain in 1981 in Gritille, Turkey, were in search of Bronze and Iron Age material but, instead, archaeologists discovered important evidence for the medieval boundary between Islam and Christianity. Eight articles report on t... .... Learn More -
The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate [Hardback]
Ramzi Rouighi (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812243109
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The thirteenth century marks a turning point in the history of the western Mediterranean. The armies of Castile and Aragon won significant and decisive victories over Muslims in Iberia and took over a number of important cities including Cordob... .... Learn More -
Looted, Recovered, Returned: Antiquities from Afghanistan [Paperback]
Janet Ambers (Author); C. R. Cartwright (Author); C. Higgitt (Author); D. Hook (Author); St John Simpson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781784910167
Published by : Archaeopress Archaeology
The “Begram ivories” are widely considered to be miniature masterpieces of Indian art and are one of the largest archaeological collections of ancient ivories. They were excavated at the site of Begram, in northern Afghanistan, in 1937 and 1939 an... .... Learn More -
Beyond Ibn Hawqal’s Bahr al-Fars [Paperback]
Valeria Piacentini Fiorani (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781407312927
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR S
Volume: 2651
The first section of the present volume is a report of the Italian involvement in Southern Makrān and Kharān, its aims and objects, modus operandi. It is essentially restricted to the Islamic era and represents a discourse preliminary to the secon... .... Learn More -
Humayma Excavation Project, 2 [Hardback]
John P. Oleson (Author); Robert Schick (Author)
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ISBN: 9780897570374
Published by : American Schools of Oriental Research
In 1986 and 1987 Oleson and a small team surveyed an area of 250 sq km around the site of al-Humayma (ancient Hawara) in Jordan's southern desert. Hawara was founded sometime in the first century BC by the Nabataean king Aretas. The flourishing se... .... Learn More -
The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe [Hardback]
Mohammad Rihan (Author)
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ISBN: 9781780765648
Published by : I.B. Tauris
The Umayyad caliphate, ruling over much of what is now the modern Middle East after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, governed from Damascus from 661 to 750CE, when they were expelled by the Abbasids. Here, Mohammad Rihan sheds light on the triba... .... Learn More
