RT Book
T1 Early Islamic Syria
A1 Walmsley, Alan 1952-
LA English
PP London
PB Bloomsbury Publishing
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/77256664X
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 consi
OP 177
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN DS97 .W35 2013
SN 978-0-7156-3570-4
K1 Islamic antiquities -- Syria
K1 Syria -- Antiquities
K1 Syria -- History -- 634-750
K1 Islamic antiquities ; Syria
K1 Syria ; Antiquities
K1 Syria ; History ; 634-750
K1 Electronic books