Material Evidence and Narrative Sources : Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East

Katia Cytryn-Silverman

ISBN 10: 9004271597 / ISBN 13: 9789004271593

Published by Brill Okt 2014, 2014

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Neuware - This book demonstrates the effectiveness of creative interdisciplinary research, applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems in the study of the Middle East.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Material Evidence and Narrative Sources : Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East
• Publisher: Brill Okt 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004271597
• ISBN 13: 9789004271593
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 245W x 167H x 27D millimeters 245 millimeters width by 167 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 764 grams

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Synopsis

This book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups.

Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.

About the Author

Daniella Talmon-Heller, Ph.D. (1999), is senior lecturer at the Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and author of Islamic Piety in Medieval Syria: Mosques, Cemeteries and Sermons under the Zangids and Ayyubids (1146–1260) (Leiden: Brill 2007).

Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Ph.D. (2006), is lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of The Road Inns (Khāns) in Bilād al-Shām (Oxford: BAR International Series 2010) and director of excavations at Tiberias.