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Material evidence and narrative sources : interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East / edited by Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman.
- Title
- Material evidence and narrative sources : interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East / edited by Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman.
- Publication
- Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Description
- xx, 390 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Islamic history and civilization, studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; volume 108
- Uniform Title
- Islamic history and civilization v. 108.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Material evidence and narrative sources: Interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East / Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman and Yasser Tabbaa -- 1. Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and studying numismatic evidence/ Jere L. Bacharach -- How to measure economic growth in the Middle East?: a framework of inquiry for the middle Islamic period / Stefan Heidemann -- 3. Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyubid Times / Donald Whitcomb -- 4. What Happened in 155 A.H. / 771-72 A.D.? The Testimony of Lead Seals / Nitzan Amitai-Preiss -- 5. The Architectural Patronage of the Fatimid Queen-Mother Durzan (d. 385/995): An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Literary Sources, Material Evidence and Historical Context / Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese -- 6. On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamluk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork / Bethany J. Walker-- 7. Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza: An Attempt to Correlate textual and archaeological findings / Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester -- 8. Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Yasser Tabbaa -- 9. Two Mamluk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through narrative sources / Miriam Kuhn -- 10. Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamluk Patronage / Nimrod Luz -- 11. The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, G.I.S. Applications, and A re-examination of the literary sources / Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus -- 12. The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856-1909 / Daphna Sharef-Davidovich -- 13. Turbat Abu Zakariyya ibn 'Abd Allah Musa (Chief Surgeon of al-Bimaristan al-Mansuri) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya) / Hani Hamza-- 14. Oral Tradition and Architectural History: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosque in the Balkans in Local Memory, Textual Sources, and Material Evidence / Maximilian Hartmuth -- 15. Deliberately Not Empty: Reading Cairo's Unknown Soldier Monument / Yoram Meital -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9789004271593
- 9004271597
- 9789004279667
- 9004279660
- LCCN
- 2014028950
- OCLC
- 884961872
- SCSB-12365824
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library