1st Edition
Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
Introduction
Section One: The Genesis of the Islamic City
Chapter 1. "An Urban Structure for the Early Islamic City: An Archaeological Hypothesis" – Donald Whitcomb, University of Chicago.
Chapter 2. "The City of Sultan Kala, Merv, Turkmenistan" – Tim Williams, UCL
Chapter 3. "Sef: Legendary Ruinof Medieval Fes" – Simon O’Meara, Leeds University
Section two: Ceremonial and State Power
Chapter 4. "Ceremonial and Social Space in early Fatimid Cairo" – Jonathan Bloom, Boston College.
Chapter 5. "From Madinat al-Zahra to Marrakesh: The Royal City and Ceremonial in the Islamic West" – Amira K. Bennison, Cambridge University.
Section three: The Symbolism of Social Space
Chapter 6. "The Water Supply of Tinnis: Public Amenitiesand Private Investments" – Alison Gascoigne, Cambridge University
Chapter 7. "The Maristan and the City of Granada" – Athena Syrakoy, Cambridge University
Chapter 8. "The Complex of Radwan Bey: Commerce and Spirituality n Seventeenth Century Cairo" – Nicolas J. Warner, American University Cairo.
Biography
Amira K. Bennison is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has worked extensively on the history of the Maghrib and Islamic Spain. Her list of publications includes Jihad and Its Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco (London: Routledge, 2002).
Alison L. Gascoigne is the holder of a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship in Islamic archaeology at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. She has worked extensively in the field on the archaeology of urbanism in Egypt and Afghanistan.
'This useful, carefully researched volume takes a nuanced site-specific approach to understanding institutional Islam as one of many factors influencing the shape of a city and its history.'- Stewart Gordon- Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
