Hattin 1187: Saladin's greatest victory (Campaign)

Hattin 1187: Saladin's greatest victory (Campaign)
David Nicolle (Author)
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In 1187, Christian Europe was shaken by events in the Middle East. This volume tells the story of those momentous months - the campaign leading to the Muslim capture of Jerusalem after the disastrous Crusader defeat at Hattin where, in a two day running battle on the waterless plateau between Saffuriya and Tiberias, beneath a burning sun, Saladin's troops destroyed the Christian army. The disaster at Hattin resulted in the collapse of the kingdom of Jerusalem and sparked off the Third Crusade under Richard I 'Coeur de Lion'. This book examines Hattin in detail and looks at the consequences of the battle.

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• Published on: 1993-01-28
• Released on: 1993-01-28
• Original language: English
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• 96 pages

Ephraem the Syrian. 80 Hymns on Faith (Eastern Christian Texts in Translation)

Ephraem the Syrian. 80 Hymns on Faith (Eastern Christian Texts in Translation)
P Russell (Author)



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Ephraem the Syrian (+ 373) is the brightest light in the Syriac-speaking Christian tradition. A hymnographer, homilist, exegete and theologian of great ability, his works provide a window into a sphere of early Christianity too little known to modern readers. many of which show Ephraem's involvement in the debates stemming from the Arian Controversy, contain much of his most fully articulated theological writing. Approaching these fundamental topics from a point of view quite different from his Greek and Latin speaking contemporaries, Ephraem discusses the nature of God and creation, the usefulness and limits of theological language, the revelation of God in Scripture and nature, as well as providing detailed discussions of questions of Christology. collection offers not only an opportunity to hear a new voice from the Christian past, but also demonstrates that high level, technically adept theological writing can be couched in clear, poetic style with much use of imagery and symbols. Students of the Middle East will discover much information here about the religious currents active in the region during the Late Antique period. references, theologically significant Syriac words (with all their appearances noted) and of topics and themes addressed. These are designed to increase the volume's usefulness for teaching, especially for students innocent of Syriac.

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• Published on: 2013-12-31
• Original language: English
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• 343 pages

Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria (Library of Ottoman Studies)

Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria (Library of Ottoman Studies)
Martha Mundy (Author), Richard Saumarez Smith (Author)

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Was "modernity" in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to popular belief, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernization was achieved by the end of the nineteenth century with great social consequences for all who lived through it. Modernization touched women as intimately as men: the authors' careful work explores the impact of Ottoman legal reforms such as granting women equal rights to land. Mundy and Saumarez Smith have painstakingly recreated a picture of such processes through both new archival material and the testimony of surviving witnesses to the period. This book will not only affect the way we look at Ottoman society, it will change our understanding of the relationship between East, West and modernity.

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• Published on: 2007-03-15
• Released on: 2007-04-17
• Original language: English
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• 304 pages

The Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status

The Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status
Nissim Dana (Author)

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This book discusses the Druze in the Middle East in general, with a particular focus of the Druze relationship with the State of Israel.

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• Published on: 2003-12-01
• Original language: English
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• 227 pages

The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama

The Politics of Love: Sexuality, Gender, and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama
Rebecca Joubin (Author)

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Dramatic miniseries are the primary arena for the expression of postcolonial Syrian culture and artistic talent, an arena that unites diverse aspects of artisanship in a struggle over visions of the past, present, and future of the nation. As the tour de force of the television medium, blossoming amidst persisting authoritarianism, these miniseries serve as a crucial and complex artistic avenue through which political and social opposition manifests. Scholars have tried to come to terms with a highly critical culture produced within attempted state co-optation, and argue that politically critical culture operates as a “safety valve” to release frustrations so that dissenters are less likely to mobilize against the government.

Through research fueled by a viewing of over two hundred and fifty miniseries ranging from the 1960s to the present—as well as an examination of hundreds of press reports, Facebook pages, and extensive interviews with drama creators—this book turns away from the dominant paradigm that focuses on regime intent. When turning attention instead to the drama creators themselves we witness the polyphony of voices employing love and marriage metaphors and gender (de)constructions to explore larger issues of nationalism, self-identity, and political critique. At the heart of constructions of femininity are the complications that arise with the symbiosis of pure femininity with authentic national identity. Deconstructing masculinity as political critique has been less complicated since it is not implicated in Western identity issues; on the contrary, illustrations of subservient masculinity serve to subtly denounce government corruption and oppression. Miniseries from the 1960s demonstrate that the focus of the qabaday (tough man) on female sexuality comes from his own political alienation vis-à-vis the state, and is part of a vicious cycle of state violence vis-à-vis the citizen. In recent years, and in particular after the uprising, we can see the emerging definition of the true qabaday as one who does not suppress a woman’s sexuality, thereby allowing for full equality in relationships as the basis of a truly free society.

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• Published on: 2013-10-03
• Original language: English
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• 508 pages

The Iron Age Settlement at 'Ain Dara, Syria: Survey and Soundings (BAR international series)

The Iron Age Settlement at 'Ain Dara, Syria: Survey and Soundings (BAR international series)
Elizabeth C. Stone (Author)

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'Squared limestone and basalt blocks of enormous size pave the approach to it, reliefs of lions and sphinxes surround its exterior, rows of lions in protome standing more than two metres high once formed the facades..' - the great Iron Age temple of 'Ain Dara is one of the most striking monuments of northern Syria. This volume presents the results of the survey project that investigated the area surrounding this monument in an attempt to provide a context for its existence and development. More than just a religious centre, excavations in the 1980s had hinted at a much larger surrounding settlement, something confirmed by the 'Ain Dara Expedition. Includes chapters on the methodology of the surface survey, the Hellenistic and Roman pottery, the excavated areas, ceramic finds, small finds, botanical and mammal remains.

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• Published on: 2013-12-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 146 pages

Come, tell me how you live

Come, tell me how you live
Agatha Christie Mallowan (Author)

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1974 DODD MEAD PUBLISHING HARDCOVER

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• Published on: 1974
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam

A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam
Wafa Sultan (Author)
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From the front page of The New York Times to YouTube, Dr. Wafa Sultan has become a force radical Islam has to reckon with. For the first time, she tells her story and what she learned, first-hand, about radical Islam in A God Who Hates, a passionate memoir by an outspoken Arabic woman that is also a cautionary tale for the West. She grew up in Syria in a culture ruled by a god who hates women. “How can such a culture be anything but barbarous?”, Sultan asks. “It can’t”, she concludes “because any culture that hates its women can’t love anything else.” She believes that the god who hates is waging a battle between modernity and barbarism, not a battle between religions. She also knows that it’s a battle radical Islam will lose. Condemned by some and praised by others for speaking out, Sultan wants everyone to understand the danger posed by A God Who Hates.

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• Published on: 2009-10-13
• Released on: 2009-10-13
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Syria and Lebanon: International Relations and Diplomacy in the Middle East (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

Syria and Lebanon: International Relations and Diplomacy in the Middle East (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Taku Osoegawa (Author)

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The so-called 'Cedar Revolution' in Lebanon, triggered by the assassination of the former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in February 2005, brought to an end three decades of Syrian military presence in the country. Here, Taku Osoegawa challenges the commonly-held claim that Lebanon and its leaders were simple puppets of the Syrian regime during the thirty years characterised as Lebanon under Syrian hegemony. Furthermore, by examining Lebanon's relations with Syria from the establishment of the Asad regime to the current violence in Syria, Osoegawa concludes that the Lebanese government has had its own reasons for aligning with Syria. As the Lebanese-Syrian relationship has had an enormous impact on the international relations of the Middle East, this book is essential reading for those interested in the contemporary regional dynamics.

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• Published on: 2013-11-26
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• Original language: English
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• 288 pages

The Book of Contemplation (Penguin Classics)

The Book of Contemplation (Penguin Classics)
Usama ibn Munqidh (Author), Paul M. Cobb (Editor, Translator, Introduction)
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The Crusades as seen through the eyes of Muslims

A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and most complete eyewitness account of the Crusades from the perspective of a medieval Muslim writer. Focusing on twelfth-century Arab aristocrat Usama ibn Munqidh?s Book of Contemplation but also including extracts from The Book of the Staff and Kernels of Refinement, this volume offers a strikingly human portrayal of I slamic perspectives on day-to-day existence, warfare, and the curious European invaders.

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• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Released on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 7.64" h x 5.08" w x .98" l, .67 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Syria: Revolution From Above (The Contemporary Middle East)

Syria: Revolution From Above (The Contemporary Middle East)
Raymond Hinnebusch (Author)

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This study examines the development of the Syrian state as it has emerged under thirty-five years of military-Ba'thist rule and, particularly, under President Hafiz al-Asad. It analyzes the way in which the fragility of the post-independence state, unable to contain rising nationalist struggle and class conflict, opened the way to the Ba'th party's rise to power and examines how the Ba'th's 'revolution from above' transformed Syria's socio-political terrain.

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• Published on: 2002-09-29
• Original language: English
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• 200 pages

WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. Vol.2. ANCIENT AND MODERN ARAMAIC ASSYRIAN SYRIAC-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (DE LAFAYETTE DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN BABYLONIAN ASSYRIAN SYRIAC MANDAIC NAZORENE ARAMAIC)

WRITTEN IN ENGLISH. Vol.2. ANCIENT AND MODERN ARAMAIC ASSYRIAN SYRIAC-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (DE LAFAYETTE DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN BABYLONIAN ASSYRIAN SYRIAC MANDAIC NAZORENE ARAMAIC)
Maximillien de Lafayette (Author)

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Paperback available at lulu.com Author's website: maximilliendelafayettebibliography.org/biblio

Aramaic is the language spoken by Jesus Christ and the Essenes. It is one of the world's most beautiful and poetic languages.

Vol.2, from a set of 4 volumes of approximately 1,100 pages. DE LAFAYETTE DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ASSYRIAN SYRIAC MANDAIC NAZORENE ARAMAIC: Comparative Encyclopedic Thesaurus-Lexicon of Aramaic, Arabic, Akkadian, Babylonian Assyrian, Hebrew, Sumerian, Syriac.
Dates of Publication of the Four Volumes. Vol.1, February 15, 2013. Vol.2, March 14, 2013.
Vol. 3, March 29, 2013.
Vol. 4, April 25, 2013.


This book is a treasure, unmatched in its linguistic, etymological and epistemological wealth and clarity. Below are examples on how the dictionary defines words, refers to the epistemological origin of the words, their derivation(s) and similar words with almost identical meaning and pronunciation in other languages and regional dialects in Semitic languages and dead languages of the ancient world (Middle East, Near East, Canaan, and Anatolia), and where words with an historical importance and linguistic value are found in the ancient tablets, on cylinder seals, slabs and bricks, the historical and social events surrounding those words, and who used them to make memorable statements.

A Definition's Example
The words Bab and Babylon and their relation to Babilu:
Bab: Ancient Assyrian/Babylonian. Noun. A gate.
From Bab, derived the words Babi and Babu.
(The plural is: Babani and Babati).
The word Bab was used in many Semitic and ancient Middle and Near Eastern languages.
Some civilizations incorporated the word Bab in their most important symbols and national entity's vocabularies, such as the word of Babylon, which means the gate of God.

Babylon is composed of two words:
a-Bab, which means a gate,
b-Ylon or Eli, or El, which means god.

"Zahi asbuut bab rab suunnuu ana izikipi uzakeep." From the Annals of Sardanapalus. Translated verbatim: "I crucified on crosses 700 men around their great gate "

King Esur (Assur, Ashur) said: "usa shira gimir babaani." Translated verbatim: "I put around all the gates."
And: "mihriit baabi sin." Translated verbatim: "In front of their gates." From the Annals of Sardanapalus: "Zaabi tilai in babaati  sa ersu ana zikipi lu uzaakeepi." Translated verbatim: "I impaled on crosses alive men  at the gates of his city."
And from the slabs of Sennacherib: "Mihriit babaati." Translated verbatim: "Before the gates."

* Bab in Arabic.
* Baba in Mandaic.
* Babi in Ancient Assyrian.
* Babu in Ancient Assyrian.
* Babu in Old Babybolian.
* Babu in Sumerian.

Baavil (Babil, Babel): Aramaic/Babylonian. Noun. Babylon.
* Babel in Arabic.
* Bavel in Hebrew.
* Babil in ancient Assyrian.
* Babil in Akkadian.
* Babil in Old Babylonian.
* Babil in contemporary Assyrian Eastern dialect.
* Babilu in Akkadian.
* Babylonia in Arabic.
* Babilu in ancient Assyrian.
* Bab-El in ancient Hebrew (Gate of God).
* The Hebrew word El is of an Ugaritic-Phoenician origin which means God, and frequently associated with Baal, the Canaanite, Syrian, Phoenician and Ugaritic God.

The word Babilu appeared frequently on Mesopotamian clay tablets, and especially on slabs, bricks and seals of Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, Purnapuriyas, Esar Haddon, and Neriglissar.
Nebuchadnezzar said, "Libu-ya ina Babel." Translation: "My heart is in Babylon."


Beth hbushyo: Noun. A prison, a jail.
* Hbushyo is Habsu and Habs in Arabic.
* Hbushyo is Habshu in Sumerian.
* Hbushyo is Habshu in Akkadian.
* Hbushyo is Habshuu in Phoenician.
* Hbushyo is Hbushu in Ugaritic.
Synonyms for hbushyo (jail) in Aramaic and Arabic: Habis,Sijin.

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The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)

The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
Herbert Niehr (Author)

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Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV: Proceedings of the 9th and 10th International Colloquium organized at the Katholieke ... (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) (Pt. 4)

Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras IV: Proceedings of the 9th and 10th International Colloquium organized at the Katholieke ... (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta) (Pt. 4)
U. Vermeulen (Editor)
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This volume contains 24 papers, presented at the ninth and tenth Colloquium on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, organized at the University of Leuven in May 2000 and 2001. The main purpose of these annual colloquia is to bring together an international audience of scholars from different fields of research, around the central theme of medieval Syrian and Egyptian history. Resulting now in a fourth volume of this kind, these proceedings again cover areas of research in the fields of medieval sociology, economy, archaeology, codicology, theology and administrative and political history, ranging from the 10th to the late 15th centuries AD. The individual contributions deal with a great number of topics, including the evolution of Syrian and Egyptian society, material culture, architecture and archaeological fieldwork, gender, the Crusades, military administration, pious endowments, form and function of Middle Eastern source material and Sufism.

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• 484 pages

Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem

Saladin and the Fall of Jerusalem
Stanley Lane-Poole (Author)
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Saladin is a legendary figure in the history of the Middle East. Saladin's rise to fame in the tumultuous arena of twelfth-century Middle Eastern politics was rapid, and he quickly established himself as a military commander of genius, a man of honor, and an intrepid statesman. This classic detailed biography of Saladin and history of his life and times was written by the eminent historian Stanley Lane-Poole. The author, able to access the rich and colorful chronicles of Arab and Moslem historians, provides us with a brilliant insight into the life and deeds of this warrior-monarch. Based on a lifetime of study.

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• Brand: Brand: Greenhill Books
• Published on: 2002-08
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

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Ephrem, a 'Jewish' Sage: A Comparison of the Exegetical Writings of St. Ephrem the Syrian and Jewish Traditions (STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE)

Ephrem, a 'Jewish' Sage: A Comparison of the Exegetical Writings of St. Ephrem the Syrian and Jewish Traditions (STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE)
E. Narinskaya (Author)

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This book seeks to reconsider the commonly held view that some of Ephrem's writings are anti-Semitic, and that his relationship with Judaism is polemical and controversial. The outcome of the research highlights several key issues. First, it indicates that the whole emphasis of Ephrem's critical remarks about Jews and Judaism is directed towards Christian conduct, and not towards Jews; and second, it considers Ephrem's negative remarks towards Jews strictly within the context of his awareness of the need for a more clearly defined identity for the Syriac Church. Furthermore, this book examines discernible parallels between Ephrem's commentaries on Scripture and Jewish sources. Such an exercise contributes to a general portrait of Ephrem within the context of his Semitic background. And in addition, the book offers an alternative reading of Ephrem's exegetical writings, suggesting that Ephrem was aiming to include Jews together with Christians among his target audience. Further analysis of Ephrem's biblical commentaries suggests that his exegetical style resembles in many respects approaches to Scripture familiar to us from the writings of Jewish scholars. A comparison of Ephrem's writings with Jewish sources represents a legitimate exercise, considering ideas that Ephrem emphasises, exegetical techniques that he uses, and his great appreciation of 'the People' - the Jews as a chosen nation and the people of God - an appreciation which becomes apparent from Ephrem's presentation of them. The process of reading Ephrem's exegetical writings in parallel with Jewish sources strongly identifies him as an heir of Jewish exegetical tradition who is comfortably and thoroughly grounded in it. This reading identifies Ephrem on a theological, exegetical and methodological level as a Christian writer demonstrating the qualities and features of a Jewish sage.

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• 357 pages

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria

The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria
Benjamin Thomas White (Author)

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Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly spring to prominence in public affairs worldwide? Within a decade of World War One, the term became fundamental to public and academic understandings of national and international politics, law, and society: 'minorities', and 'majorities' with them, were taken to be an objective reality, both in the present and the past.This book uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'. Despite French attempts to create territorial, political, and legal divisions, the mandate period saw the consolidation of the nation-state form in Syria: a trend towards a coherent national territory with fixed borders, uniform state authority within them, and the struggle to control that state played out in the language of nationalism - developments in the post-Ottoman Levant that closely paralleled those in contemporary Europe, after the demise of the Austro-Hungarian and tsarist empires. Through close attention to what changed in French mandate Syria, and what those changes meant, the book argues for a careful rethinking of a term too often used as an objective description of reality.

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Early Islamic Syria

Early Islamic Syria
Alan Walmsley (Author)
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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.

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Syria, the Desert & the Sown: With a Map

Syria, the Desert & the Sown: With a Map
Gertrude Lowthian Bell (Author)
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Syria, the desert & the sown : with a map ([1919])

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• Published on: 2010-01-23
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