TY  - BOOK
AU  - Talmon-Heller,Daniella J.
AU  - Cytryn-Silverman,Katia
TI  - Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East
T2  - Islamic History and Civilization Series
SN  - 9789004279667
AV  - DS62.M475 2014 
U1  - 956 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Middle East--History
KW  - Middle East--Historiography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction: Material Evidence and Narrative Sources. Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East -- Part 1 Economics and Trade -- Chapter 1 Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic Evidence -- Chapter 2 How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic Period -- Chapter 3 Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid Times -- Part 2 Governmental Authority -- Chapter 4 What Happened in 155 / 771-72? The Testimony of Lead Seals -- Chapter 5 The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Literary Sources, Material Evidence and Historical Context -- Chapter 6 On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork -- Part 3 Material Culture -- Chapter 7 Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza-An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings -- Chapter 8 Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- Chapter 9 Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative Sources -- Part 4 Changing Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk Patronage -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 12 The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856-1909 -- Part 5 Monuments -- Chapter 13 Turbat Abū Zakariyyā Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (Chief Surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his Social Status according to his Endowment Deed (waqfiyya); Chapter 14 Oral Tradition and Architectural History: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosque in the Balkans in Local Memory, Textual Sources, and Material Evidence -- Chapter 15 Deliberately not Empty: Reading Cairo's Unknown Soldier Monument -- Index
N2  - This book demonstrates the effectiveness of creative interdisciplinary research, applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems in the study of the Middle East
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