Early Islamic Syria: an archaeological assessment [Kindle Edition]
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Early Islamic Syria : an archaeological assessment [Kindle Edition]. / Walmsley, Alan.
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 178 p. (Duckworth debates in archaeology).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Early Islamic Syria
T2 - an archaeological assessment [Kindle Edition]
AU - Walmsley, Alan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - After 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.
AB - After 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.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Islamic Archaeology
KW - Islamic history
KW - Material Culture
KW - architectural history
M3 - Book
SN - 9780715635704
SN - 0715635700
T3 - Duckworth debates in archaeology
BT - Early Islamic Syria
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London
ER -
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