List of figures; List of tables; Foreword and acknowledgements; Chapter 1. The Earliest Muslim Societies; Chapter 2. The Umayyads; Chapter 3. The Abbasids; Chapter 4. Fāṭimids, Ayyūbids, and Mamlūks; Chapter 5. The Ottomans; Chapter; 6. Conduits and Agents of Islamisation and Trade - Maritime Routes; Chapter 7. Conduits and Agents of Islamisation and Trade - Land Routes; Chapter 8. Regional Case Studies - North Africa, Italy, France, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula; Chapter 9. Regional Case Studies - Sub-Saharan Africa 1. The West African Sahel and Sudan; Chapter 10. Regional Case Studies - Sub-Saharan Africa 2. Ethiopia; Chapter 11. Regional Case Studies - South, and Southeast Asia; Chapter 12. Regional Case Studies - Iran, Central Asia, and Afghanistan; Chapter 13. Conclusions. Islamic Archaeology in Global Perspective; Index.
Biography
Professor Timothy Insoll is Al‑Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, where he is also the Founding Director of the Centre for Islamic Archaeology. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has over a 35‑year period, directed or co‑directed 35 fieldwork expeditions in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mali, Ghana, India, Spain, and Uganda. He is the author of 12 monographs and has edited a further 15 books and special issues of journals. His notable works include Material Explorations in African Archaeology (2015) and the influential studies Archaeology, Ritual, Religion (Routledge, 2004) and The Archaeology of Islam (1999).
