Landscapes of the Islamic world : archaeology, history, and ethnography

Weitere Verfasser: McPhillips, Stephen , [HerausgeberIn]
Wordsworth, Paul D. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Philadelphia : Pennsylvania University Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: vii, 253 p. : ill., maps.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Landscapes of the Islamic world : archaeology, history, and ethnography. [Print]
Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The materiality of Ottoman water administration in eighteenth-century rural Damascus : a historian's perspective / Astrid Meier
  • The Islamic occupation of Qatar in the context of an environmental framework / Phillip G. Macumber
  • Water management in desert regions : early Islamic Qasr Mushash / Karin Bartl
  • Faunal distributions from the southern highlands of Transjordan : regional and historical perspectives on the representations and roles of animals in the middle Islamic period / Robin M. Brown
  • Zooarchaeological perspectives on rural economy and landscape use in eighteenth-century Qatar / Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans
  • Beyond Iron Age landscapes : copper mining and smelting in Faynan in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries CE / Ian W.N. Jones
  • Ceramic production in the central highlands of Yemen during the Islamic Period / Daniel Mahoney
  • Harnessing hydraulic power in Ottoman Syria : water mills and the rural economy of the upper Orontes valley / Stephen McPhillips
  • The architectural legacy of the seasonally nomadic Ghurids / David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne
  • The Northern Jordan Project and the "liquid landscapes" of late Islamic Bilad al-Sham / Bethany J. Walker
  • "Presencing the past" : a case study of Islamic rural burial practices from the Homs Region, Syria / Jennie N. Bradbury
  • Sustaining travel : the economy of medieval stopping places across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan / Paul D. Wordsworth
  • Some reflections on rural Islamic landscapes / Alan Walmsley.