1st Edition
Settlement and Urbanization in Early Islamic Palestine, 7th-11th Centuries Texts and Archaeology Contrasted
By Hagit Nol
Copyright 2022
318 Pages
109 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
318 Pages
109 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
318 Pages
109 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume follows the changes that occurred in central Palestine during the longue duree between the 7th to the 11th centuries. That region offers a unique micro-history of the Islamicate world, providing the opportunity for intensive archaeological research and rich primary sources.
Through a careful comparison between the archaeological records and the textual evidence, a new history of... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Settlement during early Islam: history and historiography
3. The Research Area
4. The Big Data
5. Technologies and daily life
6. Settlement patterns through archaeological evidence
7. Settlement patterns through texts
8. Conclusions
Index
Biography
Hagit Nol is a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, where she studies the distribution of early mosques. She is interested in early Islam, in economic and social history, and in the diffusion of knowledge and ideas. When she has time, she reads novels or watches Scandinavian TV series. In between, she raises two teenagers.
