The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-03
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780521657020
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The Archaeology of Islam
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1999-01-26
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780631201144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the archaeological implications of Islam as a force which can act upon all areas of life.
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
Author: Bethany Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 0199987882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn from the fields of Islamic art and architectural history, the archaeological study of the Islamic societies is a relatively young discipline. With its roots in the colonial periods of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its rapid development since the 1980s warrants a reevaluation of where the field stands today. This Handbook represents for the first time a survey of Islamic archaeology on a global scale, describing its disciplinary development and offering candid critiques of the state of the field today in the Central Islamic Lands, the Islamic West, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia. The international contributors to the volume address such themes as the timing and process of Islamization, the problems of periodization and regionalism in material culture, cities and countryside, cultural hybridity, cultural and religious diversity, natural resource management, international trade in the later historical periods, and migration. Critical assessments of the ways in which archaeologists today engage with Islamic cultural heritage and local communities closes the volume, highlighting the ethical issues related to studying living cultures and religions. Richly illustrated, with extensive citations, it is the reference work on the debates that drive the field today.
The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine
Author: Jodi Magness
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1575060701
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The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine
Author: Gideon Avni
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-01-30
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0191507342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a comprehensive evaluation of recent archaeological findings, Avni addresses the transformation of local societies in Palestine and Jordan between the sixth and eleventh centuries AD. Arguing that these archaeological findings provide a reliable, though complex, picture, Avni illustrates how the Byzantine-Islamic transition was a much slower and gradual process than previously thought, and that it involved regional variability, different types of populations, and diverse settlement patterns. Based on the results of hundreds of excavations, including Avni's own surveys and excavations in the Negev, Beth Guvrin, Jerusalem, and Ramla, the volume reconstructs patterns of continuity and change in settlements during this turbulent period, evaluating the process of change in a dynamic multicultural society and showing that the coming of Islam had no direct effect on settlement patterns and material culture of the local population. The change in settlement, stemming from internal processes rather than from external political powers, culminated gradually during the Early Islamic period. However, the process of Islamization was slow, and by the eve of the Crusader period Christianity still had an overwhelming majority in Palestine and Jordan.
Settlement and Urbanization in Early Islamic Palestine, 7th-11th Centuries
Author: Hagit Nol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-04-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1000568989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 Palestine and the Islamicate world emerges – one that is different than that woven from Arabic geographies and chronicles alone. The book highlights the importance of using a variety of sources when possible and examining each type of source in its own context. The volume spans ancient technologies and daily life, ancient agriculture, and the perception of place by ancient authors. It also explores the shift of settlements and harbors in central Palestine, as well as the gradual development of a new metropolis, al-Ramla. Settlement and Urbanization in Early Islamic Palestine will be of particular interest to students and scholars of the history of Islam or the history of Palestine, or anyone working more generally in the methodology of historical research and integrating texts and archaeology.
Archaeology, Ritual, Religion
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-04
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 113452644X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book re-examines the definitions of 'religion' and 'ritual' through a range of archaeological examples drawn from around the world and across time. It serves as an introduction to the theory and methodology of the archaeology of religion
Archaeology of Religion
Author: Sharon R. Steadman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1315433885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis texbook shows how archaeology interprets past religions including case studies from around the world, describing religious practices of both foragers and ancient complex socities
Early Islamic Syria
Author: Alan Walmsley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-20
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1472537769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter more than a century of neglect, a profound revolution is occurring in the way archaeology addresses and interprets developments in the social history of early Islamic Syria-Palestine. This concise book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly before, and in the two centuries after, the Islamic expansion (the later sixth to the early ninth century AD), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from recent archaeological work. Alan Walmsley challenges conventional explanations for social change with the arrival of Islam, arguing for considerable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever-growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria-Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven.
Field Manual for the Archaeology of Ritual, Religion, and Magic
Author: C. Riley Augé
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2022-07-08
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1800735049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy bringing together in one place specific objects, materials, and features indicating ritual, religious, or magical belief used by people around the world and through time, this tool will assist archaeologists in identifying evidence of belief-related behaviors and broadening their understanding of how those behaviors may also be seen through less obvious evidential lines. Instruction and templates for recording, typologizing, classifying, and analyzing ritual or magico-religious material culture are also provided to guide researchers in the survey, collection, and cataloging processes. The bulleted formatting and topical range make this a highly accessible work, while providing an incredible wealth of information in a single volume.
