02508nam 22005891 450 991079079620332120230721011124.01-4725-3776-91-4725-3775-0(CKB)2550000001144497(EBL)1507620(SSID)ssj0001156768(PQKBManifestationID)11654483(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001156768(PQKBWorkID)11200340(PQKB)10016768(MiAaPQ)EBC1507620(Au-PeEL)EBL1507620(CaPaEBR)ebr10788123(CaONFJC)MIL615838(OCoLC)862049858(MiAaPQ)EBC6163969(EXLCZ)99255000000114449720060420d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly Islamic Syria an archaeological assessment /Alan WalmsleyLondon :Duckworth,2007.1 online resource (177 p.)Bloomsbury debates in archaeologyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7156-3570-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and index.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.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 consiDebates in archaeology.Islamic antiquitiesSyriaSyriaAntiquitiesSyriaHistory634-750Islamic antiquities939.43Walmsley Alan1952-1532771MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790796203321Early Islamic Syria3779263UNINA