The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750
The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750

Author: Jelle Bruning

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9004366369

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In The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750, Jelle Bruning maps al-Fusṭāṭ’s development from a garrison town founded by Muslim conquerors near modern Cairo (Egypt) in c. 640 C.E. into a bustling provincial capital a century later. Synthesising contemporary papyri, archaeology and narrative sources, this book argues that al-Fusṭāṭ’s position in Egypt changed with the different policies of the Rightly-Guided and Umayyad caliphs and their provincial representatives. Because these policies affected the town’s centrality in the administration as well as in commercial and legal networks throughout Egypt, from Alexandria in the north to Aswan in the south, The Rise of a Capital offers valuable new insights into Egypt’s society during the first century of Muslim rule.

The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa
The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa

Author: Getzel M. Cohen

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-10-03

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0520241487

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"The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa will take its place, as the first volume has already done, as an indispensable resource for the study of Greek history. The book will be a research tool of lasting value: there is nothing remotely similar available to the student of urbanism in the ancient world. The scholarship is of the highest quality, thorough and current."—Kent Rigsby, editor of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies

From Al-Andalus to Khurasan
From Al-Andalus to Khurasan

Author: Petra Sijpesteijn

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9004155678

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The study of medieval Islamic history has been hindered by the lack of available evidence. This is because of its inaccessibility to all but the most specialised scholars in the field. Containing papers given at the "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World" conference, this title looks at the redressing of this problem