Material evidence and narrative sources : interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East /
This book demonstrates the effectiveness of creative interdisciplinary research, applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems in the study of the Middle East.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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Colección: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 108. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Material evidence and narrative sources: interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East / Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman and Yasser Tabbaa
- 1. Material evidence and narrative sources: teaching and studying numismatic evidence / Jere L. Bacharach
- 2. How to measure economic growth in the Middle East?: a framework of inquiry for the middle Islamic period / Stefan Heidemann
- 3. Ladies of Quseir: life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid times / Donald Whitcomb
- 4. What Happened in 155 / 771-72? the testimony of Lead Seals / Nitzan Amitai-Preiss
- 5. The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): an interdisciplinary analysis of literary sources, material evidence and historical context / Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese
- 6. On archives and archaeology: reassessing Mamlūk rule from documentary sources and Jordanian fieldwork / Bethany J. Walker
- 7. Evidence of material culture from the Geniza: an attempt to correlate textual and archaeological findings / Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester
- 8. Originality and innovation in Syrian woodwork of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Yasser Tabbaa
- 9. Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: approaching material culture through narrative sources / Miriam Kühn
- 10. Icons of power and religious piety: the politics of Mamlūk patronage / Nimrod Luz
- 11. The early Islamic city of Ramla in light of new archaeological discoveries, G.I.S. applications, and a re-examination of the literary sources / Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus
- 12. The role of the omperial palaces in the urbanization process of Istanbul, 1856-1909 / Daphna Sharef-Davidovich
- 13. Turbat Abū Zakariyyā ibn ʻAbd Allāh Mūsa (chief surgeon of al-Bīmar̄istān al-Manṣūrī) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya) / Hani Hamza
- 14. Oral tradition and architectural history: a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Balkans in local memory, textual sources, and material evidence / Maximilian Hartmuth
- 15. Deliberately not empty: reading Cairo's unknown Soldier Monument / Yoram Meital.