Landscapes of the Islamic World : archaeology, history, and ethnography /

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 frequently an engine of economic activity, the setting...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McPhillips, Stephen (Editor), Wordsworth, Paul D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:
Land use, Rural > Middle East > History.
Water-supply, Rural > Middle East > History.
Rural development > Middle East > History.
Islamic civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Commerce
Islamic civilization
Land use, Rural
Rural conditions
Rural development
Water-supply, Rural
Kulturlandschaft
Middle East > Rural conditions > History.
Islamic countries > Commerce > History.
Pays musulmans > Commerce > Histoire.
Islamic countries
Middle East
Naher Osten
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The materiality of Ottoman water administration in eighteenth-century rural Damascus : a historian's perspective / Astrid MeierThe Islamic occupation of Qatar in the context of an environmental framework / Phillip G. Macumber
  • Water management in desert regions : early Islamic Qasr Mushash / Karin Bartl
  • Faunal distributions from the southern highlands of Transjordan : regional and historical perspectives on the representations and roles of animals in the middle Islamic period / Robin M. Brown
  • Zooarchaeological perspectives on rural economy and landscape use in eighteenth-century Qatar / Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans
  • Beyond Iron Age landscapes : copper mining and smelting in Faynan in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries CE / Ian W.N. Jones
  • Ceramic production in the central highlands of Yemen during the Islamic Period / Daniel Mahoney
  • Harnessing hydraulic power in Ottoman Syria : water mills and the rural economy of the upper Orontes valley / Stephen McPhillips
  • The architectural legacy of the seasonally nomadic Ghurids / David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne
  • The Northern Jordan Project and the "liquid landscapes" of late Islamic Bilad al-Sham / Bethany J. Walker
  • "Presencing the past" : a case study of Islamic rural burial practices from the Homs Region, Syria / Jennie N. Bradbury
  • Sustaining travel : the economy of medieval stopping places across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan / Paul D. Wordsworth
  • Some reflections on rural Islamic landscapes / Alan Walmsley.

Similar Items