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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790796203321

Autore

Walmsley Alan <1952->

Titolo

Early Islamic Syria : an archaeological assessment / / Alan Walmsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Duckworth, , 2007

ISBN

1-4725-3776-9

1-4725-3775-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

Bloomsbury debates in archaeology

Disciplina

939.43

Soggetti

Islamic antiquities - Syria

Syria Antiquities

Syria History 634-750

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 consi