Islam Archaeology And History

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017326385

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Islam, Archaeology and History by Timothy Insoll Pdf

The acceptance of Islam by the inhabitants of the Gao Region and the wider Western Sahel had far-reaching effects, socially, politically and economically. However, no systematic study has yet been undertaken of the archaeology of Islam in this region, although numerous detailed studies exist examine Islamization in West Africa. This study seeks to redress this. The traces of past occupation of the Gao Region between ca.AD 900 and 1250 are here examined, with an emphasis upon understanding the beginning, process, and effect of Islamization. New archaeological evidence is provided, and the existing archaeological evidence re-examined, and then integrated with the historical evidence. Islamic archaeology is still too often regarded as a sub-discipline of art history, and it is hoped that this work will go some way to altering these perceptions, at least for the Western Sahel, as well as to integrating its history into that of its wider region.

Author : Maria Effinger,Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Crete (Greece)
ISBN : 0860548317

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Islam, Archaeology, and History by Maria Effinger,Timothy Insoll Pdf

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631201149

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The Archaeology of Islam by Timothy Insoll Pdf

This book examines the archaeological implications of Islam as a force which can act upon all areas of life.

Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748696529

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Introduction to Islamic Archaeology by Marcus Milwright Pdf

This introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present, evaluating the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture.

Author : Stephen McPhillips,Paul D. Wordsworth
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812292763

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Landscapes of the Islamic World by Stephen McPhillips,Paul D. Wordsworth Pdf

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 for agricultural and technological innovation, and its inhabitants were frequently agents of social and political change. The Islamic city is increasingly viewed in the context of long and complex processes of urban development. Archaeological evidence calls for an equally nuanced reading of shifting cultural and religious practices in rural areas after the middle of the seventh century. Landscapes of the Islamic World presents new work by twelve authors on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of the Islamic world in the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central Asia. The collection looks beyond the city to engage with the predominantly rural and pastoral character of premodern Islamic society. Editors Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth group the essays into four thematic sections: harnessing and living with water; agriculture, pastoralism, and rural subsistence; commerce, production, and the rural economy; and movement and memory in the rural landscape. Each contribution addresses aspects of extra-urban life in challenging new ways, blending archaeological material culture, textual sources, and ethnography to construct holistic studies of landscapes. Modern agrarian practices and population growth have accelerated the widespread destruction of vast tracts of ancient, medieval, and early modern landscapes, highlighting the urgency of scholarship in this field. This book makes an original and important contribution to a growing subject area, and represents a step toward a more inclusive understanding of the historical landscapes of Islam. Contributors: Pernille Bangsgaard, Karin Bartl, Jennie N. Bradbury, Robin M. Brown, Alison L. Gascoigne, Ian W. N. Jones, Phillip G. Macumber, Daniel Mahoney, Stephen McPhillips, Astrid Meier, David C. Thomas, Bethany J. Walker, Alan Walmsley, Tony J. Wilkinson, Paul D. Wordsworth, Lisa Yeomans.

Author : Bethany Walker,Timothy Insoll,Corisande Fenwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199987887

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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology by Bethany Walker,Timothy Insoll,Corisande Fenwick Pdf

Born from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s warrants a reevaluation of where the field stands today. This Handbook represents for the first time a survey of Islamic archaeology on a global scale, describing its disciplinary development and offering candid critiques of the state of the field today in the Central Islamic Lands, the Islamic West, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. The international contributors to the volume address such themes as the timing and process of Islamization, the problems of periodization and regionalism in material culture, cities and countryside, cultural hybridity, cultural and religious diversity, natural resource management, international trade in the later historical periods, and migration. Critical assessments of the ways in which archaeologists today engage with Islamic cultural heritage and local communities closes the volume, highlighting the ethical issues related to studying living cultures and religions. Richly illustrated, with extensive citations, it is the reference work on the debates that drive the field today.

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521657024

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The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa by Timothy Insoll Pdf

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Author : José C. Carvajal López
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350006683

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Islamization and Archaeology by José C. Carvajal López Pdf

This fresh approach to the study of Islamization proposes an innovative conceptual framework that treats the subject as a particular case of cultural change. The aim of the volume is to make Islamization amenable to archaeological and historical analyses of changes in material conditions of life without forsaking the specific history of Islam. Islam and Islamization must be understood in their particular social context, but also in relation to the conditions that hold them together over large geographical and chronological expanses. Archaeologists and historians have considered Islamization from a range of different perspectives, from conversion to cultural change, though these studies have tended to be underpinned by a normativist conception of Islam. In contrast, José C. Carvajal López takes a hermeneutical stance, wherein Islam is the result of exploration, and adopts a New Materialist theoretical analysis to explore Islamization and its impact on identities, communities and their material culture. The consequences for the study of Islamization are examined through examples that include some of the author's own experiences. This innovative take on Islamization is not exclusively interested in the spread of the religion or of the polity, and therefore it overcomes the theoretical limits imposed by the concepts of religious conversion and ideological imposition. This book will appeal to scholars interested in associating cultural and religious change and, in particular, those working on Islam, whether within or outside the discipline of archaeology.

Author : Intisar Soghayroun Elzein
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115183043

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Islamic Archaeology in the Sudan by Intisar Soghayroun Elzein Pdf

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 60 Series Editors: John Alexander and Lawrence Smith

Author : Leonardo Capezzone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 8875753660

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Before Archaeology. The Meaning of the Past in the Islam by Leonardo Capezzone Pdf

Author : Daniella J. Talmon-Heller,Katia Cytryn-Silverman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004279667

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Material Evidence and Narrative Sources by Daniella J. Talmon-Heller,Katia Cytryn-Silverman Pdf

This book demonstrates the effectiveness of creative interdisciplinary research, applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems in the study of the Middle East.

Author : Andrew Petersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789811069659

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Bones of Contention by Andrew Petersen Pdf

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions. Reviewing the historiography of Muslim shrines paying attention to the different ways these places have been studied, through anthropology, archaeology, history, and religious studies, the text discusses the historical and archaeological evidence for the development of shrines in the region from pre-Islamic times up to the present day. It also assesses the significance of Muslim shrines in the modern Middle East, focusing on the diverse range of opinions and treatments from veneration to destruction, and argues that shrines have a unique social function as a means of direct contact with the past in a region where changing political configurations have often distorted conventional historical narratives.

Author : Maria Vittoria Fontana
Publisher : Universitas Studiorum
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9788833690735

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Islam and the West. Arabic inscriptions and pseudo inscriptions by Maria Vittoria Fontana Pdf

This volume contains four essays on inscriptions and/or pseudo inscriptions made with letters of the Arabic alphabet or with characters deriving from the latter, used in artifacts produced in the West (and especially Italy) during the medieval and Renaissance period. Maria Vittoria Fontana is Full Professor of Islamic Archaeology and History of Art at the Department of Science of Antiquities of Sapienza University in Rome; previously, she held the same role at “L’Orientale” University of Naples. She has carried out excavations in Iran, Jordan and Yemen. The last excavation was at Istakhr and the final report was published in the volume Istakhr (Iran) 2011-2016: Historical and Archaeological Essays (Quaderni di Vicino Oriente XIII), Rome: Sapienza 2018. She is also the author of numerous scientific articles and monographs on both archaeological and iconographic subjects, the latter concerning Islamic productions as well as Western ones that have come into contact with Islam.

Author : Alan Walmsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472537768

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Early Islamic Syria by Alan Walmsley Pdf

After more than a century of neglect, a profound revolution is occurring in the way archaeology addresses and interprets developments in the social history of early Islamic Syria-Palestine. This concise 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.

Author : Andrew Petersen,Denys Pringle
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789697773

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Ramla: City of Muslim Palestine, 715-1917 by Andrew Petersen,Denys Pringle Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the history, archaeology and architecture of the city of Ramla from the time of its foundation as the capital of Umayyad Palestine around 715 until the end of Ottoman rule in 1917.