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1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Duckworth debates in archaeology |
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Duckworth debates in archaeology.
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| Contents |
Defining Islamic archaeology in Syria-Palestine -- After Justinian, 565-635 CE -- Material culture and society -- Sites and settlement processes -- Life -- Prospects : ongoing debates in Islamic archaeology |
| Summary |
"This book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly before, and in the two centuries after, the Islamic expansion (the later sixth to the early ninth century AD), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from recent archaeological work. Alan Walmsley challenges conventional explanations for social change with the arrival of Islam, arguing for considerable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever-growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria-Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Islamic antiquities -- Syria
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Antiquities
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Islamic antiquities
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Ausgrabung
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Islamic antiquities -- Syria -- 634-750.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria.
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Islam -- historia -- Syrien -- 500-talet.
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Islam -- historia -- Syrien -- 600-talet.
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| SUBJECT |
Syria -- History -- 634-750. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131700
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Syria -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131693
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Syria
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Syrien
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Syria -- History -- 634-750.
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Syria -- Antiquities.
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Syrien -- historia -- 500-talet.
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Syrien -- historia -- 600-talet.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472537751 |
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1472537750 |
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9781472537768 |
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1472537769 |
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