Stephen McPhillips teaches in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Paul D. Wordsworth is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
Stephen McPhillips teaches in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Paul D. Wordsworth is a member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.
Edited by Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth
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Preface —Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth Introduction —Tony J. Wilkinson PART I. HYDROECONOMIES: MANAGING AND LIVING WITH WATER Chapter 1. The Materiality of Ottoman Water Administration in Eighteenth-Century Rural Damascus: A Historian's Perspective —Astrid Meier Chapter 2. The Islamic Occupation of Qatar in the Context of an Environmental Framework —Phillip G. Macumber Chapter 3. Water Management in Desert Regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash —Karin Bartl PART II. AGRICULTURE, PASTORALISM, AND SUBSISTENCE Chapter 4. Faunal Distributions from the Southern Highlands of Transjordan: Regional and Historical Perspectives on the Representations and Roles of Animals in the Middle Islamic Period —Robin M. Brown Chapter 5. Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Rural Economy and Landscape Use in Eighteenth-Century Qatar —Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans PART III. LANDSCAPES OF COMMERCE AND PRODUCTION Chapter 6. Beyond Iron Age Landscapes: Copper Mining and Smelting in Faynan in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries CE —Ian W. N. Jones Chapter 7. Ceramic Production in the Central Highlands of Yemen During the Islamic Period —Daniel Mahoney Chapter 8. Harnessing Hydraulic Power in Ottoman Syria: Water Mills and the Rural Economy of the Upper Orontes Valley —Stephen McPhillips PART IV. TRANSIENCE AND PERMANENCE: MOVEMENT AND MEMORY IN THE LANDSCAPE Chapter 9. The Architectural Legacy of the Seasonally Nomadic Ghurids —David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne Chapter 10. The Northern Jordan Project and the "Liquid Landscapes" of Late Islamic Bilad al-Sham —Bethany J. Walker Chapter 11. "Presencing the Past": A Case Study of Islamic Rural Burial Practices from the Homs Region, Syria —Jennie N. Bradbury Chapter 12. Sustaining Travel: The Economy of Medieval Stopping Places Across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan —Paul D. Wordsworth Conclusion. Some Reflections on Rural Islamic Landscapes —Alan Walmsley Glossary List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Preface —Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth Introduction —Tony J. Wilkinson PART I. HYDROECONOMIES: MANAGING AND LIVING WITH WATER Chapter 1. The Materiality of Ottoman Water Administration in Eighteenth-Century Rural Damascus: A Historian's Perspective —Astrid Meier Chapter 2. The Islamic Occupation of Qatar in the Context of an Environmental Framework —Phillip G. Macumber Chapter 3. Water Management in Desert Regions: Early Islamic Qasr Mushash —Karin Bartl PART II. AGRICULTURE, PASTORALISM, AND SUBSISTENCE Chapter 4. Faunal Distributions from the Southern Highlands of Transjordan: Regional and Historical Perspectives on the Representations and Roles of Animals in the Middle Islamic Period —Robin M. Brown Chapter 5. Zooarchaeological Perspectives on Rural Economy and Landscape Use in Eighteenth-Century Qatar —Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans PART III. LANDSCAPES OF COMMERCE AND PRODUCTION Chapter 6. Beyond Iron Age Landscapes: Copper Mining and Smelting in Faynan in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries CE —Ian W. N. Jones Chapter 7. Ceramic Production in the Central Highlands of Yemen During the Islamic Period —Daniel Mahoney Chapter 8. Harnessing Hydraulic Power in Ottoman Syria: Water Mills and the Rural Economy of the Upper Orontes Valley —Stephen McPhillips PART IV. TRANSIENCE AND PERMANENCE: MOVEMENT AND MEMORY IN THE LANDSCAPE Chapter 9. The Architectural Legacy of the Seasonally Nomadic Ghurids —David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne Chapter 10. The Northern Jordan Project and the "Liquid Landscapes" of Late Islamic Bilad al-Sham —Bethany J. Walker Chapter 11. "Presencing the Past": A Case Study of Islamic Rural Burial Practices from the Homs Region, Syria —Jennie N. Bradbury Chapter 12. Sustaining Travel: The Economy of Medieval Stopping Places Across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan —Paul D. Wordsworth Conclusion. Some Reflections on Rural Islamic Landscapes —Alan Walmsley Glossary List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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