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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809679603321

Autore

Pini Nicolò <1989->

Titolo

Arab settlements : tribal structures and spatial organizations in the Middle East between Hellenistic and early Islamic periods / / Nicolò Pini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78969-362-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Disciplina

939.4

Soggetti

Arabs - Middle East - History

Middle East Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of plates -- Preface -- Part 1: Methodology and Theory -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Anthropological background and terminology -- 2.1: Nomadism and pastoral societies -- 2.2: Tribalism and segmented societies -- 2.3: "Arabs": the challenge of distinguishing between external labels and self-definitions -- Chapter 3: Typology -- 3.1: The "Settlement" level -- 3.2: The "Quarter" level -- 3.3: The "Block" level -- 3.4: The "house" level -- Part 2: Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 4: The case studies -- 4.1: The southern Hauran (Jordan) -- 4.1.1: Umm el-Jimal -- 4.1.2: Umm es-Surab -- 4.2: The Central Hauran (Syria) -- 4.2.1: Sharah -- 4.2.2: Mseikeh -- 4.3: The Negev -- 4.3.1: Shivta (Sobata/Soubaita) -- 4.3.2: Mamshit (Mampsis/Kurnub) -- Chapter 5: Regionalism and Transregional patterns -- Chapter 6: The "test" case-studies - The Central Jordanian Plateau -- 6.1: Tall Hisban -- 6.2: Umm er-Rasas -- Part 3: Archaeological data in the bigger picture -- Chapter 7: The regional historical context -- 7.1: The Desert and the Sown -- 7.2: Brothers in arms -- 7.3: Defended by the saints -- 7.4: A "Kaleidoscope of identities" -- 7.5: The "ruralisation" of the spatial model of the urban space -- Chapter 8: Arab settlements or settlements of the "Arabs"? -- References -- Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Plates.


Sommario/riassunto

How can the built environment help in the understanding of social and economic changes involving ancient local communities? Arab Settlements aims to shed light on the degree to which economic and political changes affected social and identity patterns in the regional context from the Nabatean through to the Umayyad and Abbasid periods.