The Sheikh S House At Quseir Al Qadim

Author : Katherine Strange Burke
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614910589

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The Sheikh's House at Quseir al-Qadim by Katherine Strange Burke Pdf

This study of a thirteenth-century dwelling on Egypt's Red Sea Coast draws on multiple lines of evidence--including texts excavated at the site--to reconstruct a history of the structure and the people who dwelt within. The inhabitants participated in Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade, transported Ḥāǧǧ pilgrims, sent grain to Mecca and Medina, and wrote sermons and amulets for the local faithful. These activities are detailed in the documents and fleshed out in the botanical, faunal, artifact, and stratigraphic evidence from the University of Chicago's excavations (1978-82). This compound eventually consisted of two houses and a row of storerooms and became the center of mercantile activity at Quseir al-Qadim. Over time, as the number of named individuals who received shipping notes addressed to the "warehouse of Abū Mufarij" increased, living rooms and storerooms were added to accommodate this expansion of commerce. While most merchants were dealing in textiles, dates, and grains, additional commodities traded included perfumes, gemstone-decorated textiles, resist-dyed textiles, and porcelains. Specialist studies by Steven Goodman on the avian faunal remains and Wilma Wetterstrom on the macrobotanical finds reveal that the compound's occupants enjoyed a diet of chicken and Nile Valley produce such as grapes and watermelon, and they were supplemented by high-priced imports: nuts and fruits from around the Mediterranean, along with medicinal plants from as far away as India, indicate the wealth and status of this family of merchants. The evidence from this small portion of Quseir al-Qadim yields a rich local story that is a microcosm of Nile Valley-Red Sea-Indian Ocean trade under the last Ayyubid sultans of Egypt.

Author : Daniella J. Talmon-Heller,Katia Cytryn-Silverman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.

Author : Li Guo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004137479

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Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century by Li Guo Pdf

This is a study and edition of the Arabic documents uncovered in Quseir, Upper Egypt. These documents shed light on the Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade in the thirteenth century. They also reveal aspects of the everyday life, popular culture, and linguistic features of the communities involved.

Author : Elizabeth Lambourn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107173880

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Abraham's Luggage by Elizabeth Lambourn Pdf

A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354351563

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The Economic History of India by Anonim Pdf

The economic history of early India is a rich and diverse area of study, covering agricultural developments, trade, markets, occupation and professional groups, urbanization and the institutions that govern the economy. Recent research has expanded our understanding of the processes of transformation of the economy in different temporal contexts within the Indian sub-continent. They have particularly led us to explore connected histories given the trans-continental trading networks and movements of people from very early times. This volume seeks to draw attention to this vast and unexplored terrain in the economic history of early India, by bringing together essays on a new and rich historiography. Essays in the volume cover neglected regions, economic processes and structures. Scholars have looked at questions of settlements, crops that were cultivated and market orientation. Essays cover material culture and provide insights into how early Indians lived, what kinds of activities they were engaged in, and how they organised their production activities within and outside domestic spaces. Further the volume bring new insights on hierarchy of settlement types, nature of exchange, and the significance of a nodal site in exchange networks. Maritime history as well as the understanding of trade in its varied forms and manifestations are covered in several essays.

Author : charles le qusene
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9774160096

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quseir : an ottoman and napoleonic fortress on the red sea coast of egypt by charles le qusene Pdf

This volume presents the results of recent archaeological and historical studies of the Ottoman fort of Quseir, which was Upper Egypt's only direct outlet to the Red Sea at that time. Illustrated with over 100 maps, drawings, and photos, this groundbreaking study examines a key example of Ottoman-era material culture in Egypt--a topic largely overlooked by archaeologists. With contributions from seven historians and archaeologists, Quseir traces the development and history of an important Ottoman fortress, built near an abandoned medieval port. Its establishment was part of a constant struggle by the Ottoman state to maintain control of the desert and the routes across it. Studies of the archaeological remains from the fort reveal the presence of reused stones from a Greco-Roman temple and emphasize its key role as a regional grain entrepôt and port of embarkation for Muslim pilgrims on the way to Mecca. Quseir is a portrait of a place at the boundary of two powerful cultural and economic systems. While serving as an outlet for the pilgrims and produce of Upper Egypt, Quseir also played a role in the distinctive maritime culture of the Red Sea. This study also reveals in detail for the first time the story of the struggle between the British and French for control of Quseir during the Napoleonic occupation of 1798-1801. Drawing on recent archaeological investigations and new archival research, Quseir offers important new scholarship on a key Ottoman site. American Research Center in Egypt Conservation Series 2

Author : Roxani Eleni Margariti,Adam Sabra,Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004184275

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Histories of the Middle East by Roxani Eleni Margariti,Adam Sabra,Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

Dedicated to their teacher, Abraham L. Udovitch, his students offer in this volume a chronologically, geographically and thematically wide range of papers united by an emphasis on a close reading of primary sources and the juxtaposition of different genres of narratives.

Author : Carol Meyer
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015029569608

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Glass from Quseir Al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade by Carol Meyer Pdf

This volume is the final report on the first and second century a.d. and thirteenth and fourteenth century Islamic glass excavated at Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The report not only describes the glass finds but also studies their distribution from the Red Sea to Arabia, East Africa, and India and raises some specific questions about the export of glassmaking technology and about the character of long-range trade in glass in both periods.

Author : Stephan Conermann
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847101000

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Ubi Sumus? Quo Vademus? by Stephan Conermann Pdf

Sources, which have so far often been overshadowed by chronicles and normative literature, are also the focus of interest of this book. Treatises against unacceptable innovations, pilgrims guidebooks, travel reports, prosopographical and biographical writings, journals and diaries, folk novels, documents and law manuals can provide us with valuable information. But what generally applies for Mamlukology is the fact that an enormous amount of fundamental work in the edition of texts remains yet to be done. Many Mamlukists are primarily engaged in this activity. It may also have been this unavoidable focus on handwritten materials that resulted in the fact that the scholars studying the Mamluk Era have only very rarely occupied themselves with interdisciplinary questions or theoretical hypotheses. Nevertheless, during the last ten years a lot of innovative research has been done in this field. For the first time, this book presents the state of the art with regards to the Mamluk Empire.

Author : Stephan Conermann
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847102281

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History and Society During the Mamluk Period (1250-1517) by Stephan Conermann Pdf

Once a person starts to study the 250-some years of the Mamluk Era in Egypt and Syria (12501517), one characteristic of that period stands out immediately the very unusual polarization of its society. A predominantly Arabic population was dominated by a purely Turkish-born elite of manu-mitted military slaves who sought to regenerate themselves continuously through a self-imposed fiat. The only person who could become a Mamluk was a Turk who had been born free outside the Islamic territories as a non-Muslim, then enslaved, brought to Egypt as a slave, converted to Islam, freed, and finally, trained as a warrior. Only those who met these prerequisites were members of the ruling stratum with all the concomitant political, military, and economic advantages. On this historically unique model of a society, Stephan Conermann has published a series of seminal articles. In this edited volume the reader gets an excellent introduction to some of the central issues of the ongoing research on the Mamluk history and society.

Author : Sabine R. Huebner,Eugenio Garosi,Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello,Matthias Müller,Stefanie Schmidt,Matthias Stern
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110683585

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Living the End of Antiquity by Sabine R. Huebner,Eugenio Garosi,Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello,Matthias Müller,Stefanie Schmidt,Matthias Stern Pdf

This volume covers the transition period stretching from the reign of Justinian I to the end of the 8th century, focusing on the experience of individuals who lived through the last decades of Byzantine rule in Egypt before the arrival of the new Arab rulers. The contributions drawing from the wealth of sources we have for Egypt, explore phenomena of stability and disruption during the transition from the classical to the postclassical world.

Author : Ron Harris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691185804

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Going the Distance by Ron Harris Pdf

A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporation Before the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean. Business was organized in family firms, merchant networks, and state-owned enterprises, and dominated by Chinese, Indian, and Arabic traders. However, around 1600 the first two joint-stock corporations, the English and Dutch East India Companies, were established. Going the Distance tells the story of overland and maritime trade without Europeans, of European Cape Route trade without corporations, and of how new, large-scale, and impersonal organizations arose in Europe to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. Ron Harris shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, Harris compares the organizational forms used in four major regions: China, India, the Middle East, and Western Europe. The English and Dutch were the last to leap into Eurasian trade, and they innovated in order to compete. They raised capital from passive investors through impersonal stock markets and their joint-stock corporations deployed more capital, ships, and agents to deliver goods from their origins to consumers. Going the Distance explores the history behind a cornerstone of the modern economy, and how this organizational revolution contributed to the formation of global trade and the creation of the business corporation as a key factor in Europe’s economic rise.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131546330

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Donald S. Whitcomb,Janet H. Johnson
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038870080

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Quseir Al-Qadim 1978 by Donald S. Whitcomb,Janet H. Johnson Pdf

The results of the first season of archaeological excavations at the small port site of Quseir al-Qadim on the Red Sea are presented in this volume. Archaeological evidence testifies to the importance of this port, then called Leukos Limen, for the Roman trade in the Indian Ocean in the first and second centuries a.d. After a millennium of abandonment, this trade was revived under the Mamluks (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries), when the trade reached East Africa, India, and China. This report presents copious illustrations of the artifacts of daily life in these two periods. A chapter by Martha Prickett presents the detailed results of a regional survey around Quseir and along the route leading to Luxor and the Nile valley.

Author : Marijke Van der Veen
Publisher : Africa Magna Verlag
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783937248233

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Consumption, Trade and Innovation by Marijke Van der Veen Pdf

AD 1-250 (Myos Hormos) and again during ca.