Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576079198 ISBN 13: 9781576079195

Publisher: ABC-CLIO, 2006

Synopsis

The first work to offer 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage of ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa―from their founding to the present―highlighting each city's cultural, social, political, and economic significance.

· Coverage of 100 ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa

· 19 academic contributors from this region as well as from Europe and the United States

· Annotated timeline locating cities within their historical and imperial contexts

· 44 illustrations including the Venetian fortifications of Nicosia, the ziggurat in Ur, and the Silk Market in Cairo

· 8 maps including an overview map of all the cities listed in the book and sub-regional maps to clarify their location

About this title

Book Description:

Bustling cities with twisting streets and busy markets. Lush gardens, quiet courtyards, minarets flashing in the hot sun. The cities of the Middle East and North Africa evoke these vivid images, but the reality is often more prosaic, with problems of poverty, pollution, disenfranchisement, conflict, and poor infrastructure. What fascinating history lies behind these cities, and what are they like today?

About the Author:

Michael R. T. Dumper is reader in Middle East politics at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, specializing in urbanism and religious institutions of the Middle East.

Bruce E. Stanley is provost at Huron University in London and a research fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, specializing in Middle East political economy and urbanization.

About this edition

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1576079198
• ISBN 13: 9781576079195
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Dumper Michael Richard Thomas, Stanley Bruce