Early Islamic Syria

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 considerable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever-growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria-Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven.>

Product details

• Authors: A. Walmsley, Alan Walmsley, Walmsley Alan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2007
• EAN: 9780715635704
• ISBN: 978-0-7156-3570-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo; Debates in Archaeology; Duckworth Debates in Archaeolo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Social History, Syria, Social & cultural history, CE period up to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, HISTORY / Middle East / Syria