| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 390 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Islamic history and civilization, studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; volume 108 |
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 108.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates the effectiveness of creative interdisciplinary research, applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems in the study of the Middle East |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090506
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Middle East -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Talmon-Heller, Daniella, editor.
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Cytryn-Silverman, Katia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004279667 |
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9004279660 |
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