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Central and Southern Jordan in the Ayyubid Period: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2006-04, Vol.16 (1), p.1-27 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2006 ;Copyright 2006 The Royal Asiatic Society ;2007 INIST-CNRS ;The Royal Asiatic Society, 2006 ;ISSN: 1356-1863 ;ISSN: 0035-869X ;EISSN: 2051-2066 ;EISSN: 1474-0591 ;DOI: 10.1017/S1356186305005626

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Title:
Central and Southern Jordan in the Ayyubid Period: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Author: Milwright, Marcus
Subjects: 13th century ; Archaeological paradigms ; Archaeological surveys ; Archaeology ; Architecture ; Art and archaeology ; Ayyubids ; Ayyubids and Mameluks ; Castles ; Excavations ; Forts ; Governors ; Historic artifacts ; Historical archaeology ; Inheritance of caliphates ; Inscriptions ; Islam ; Muslims ; Patronage ; Pilgrims ; Political history ; Politics ; Pottery ; Rural areas ; Salah ; Wadis ; West Germanic languages
Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2006-04, Vol.16 (1), p.1-27
Description: For most of the Islamic period central and southern Jordan has existed on the periphery of larger states. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the political and economic life of the Muslim and Frankish polities of Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria) was dominated by cities like Damascus, Aleppo, Jerusalem and Acre. These urban centres contained the greatest concentrations of the military and civilian elite, and provided the largest markets for locally produced and imported commodities. Intellectual activity also prospered in such urban environments and, with few exceptions, it was the occupants of the cities of Bilad al-Sham who composed the histories of the Crusader states and the Ayyubid confederacy. These chronicles tend to reflect the interests of the ruling elites and generally pay rather less attention to rural areas. The lands between the Wadi Zarqa' and the Red Sea – populated as they were by villages and small market towns – excited little interest among historians, and only Karak and Shawbak merit relatively regular mentions in the chronicles of the period.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1356-1863
ISSN: 0035-869X
EISSN: 2051-2066
EISSN: 1474-0591
DOI: 10.1017/S1356186305005626
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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Central and Southern Jordan in the Ayyubid Period: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives

Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2006 ;Copyright 2006 The Royal Asiatic Society ;2007 INIST-CNRS ;The Royal Asiatic Society, 2006 ;ISSN: 1356-1863 ;ISSN: 0035-869X ;EISSN: 2051-2066 ;EISSN: 1474-0591 ;DOI: 10.1017/S1356186305005626

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