Broschiertes Buch

Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World

The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

Herausgeber: Bennison, Amira K.; Gascoigne, Alison L.

Beschreibung

This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world.

Autor

Amira K. Bennison is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She has worked extensively on the history of the Maghrib and Islamic Spain. Her list of publications includes Jihad and Its Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco (London: Routledge, 2002). Alison L. Gascoigne is the holder of a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship in Islamic archaeology at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University. She has worked extensively in the field on the archaeology of urbanism in Egypt and Afghanistan.

Produktdetails

• SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415553810
• ISBN-10: 0415553814
• Artikelnr.: 26868488