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UNINA9910790796203321 |
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Autore |
Walmsley Alan <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Early Islamic Syria : an archaeological assessment / / Alan Walmsley |
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London : , : Duckworth, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-4725-3776-9 |
1-4725-3775-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Collana |
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Bloomsbury debates in archaeology |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islamic antiquities - Syria |
Syria Antiquities |
Syria History 634-750 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 consi |
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