edited by Stephen McPhillips and Paul D. Wordsworth
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 253 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
27 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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The materiality of Ottoman water administration in eighteenth-century rural Damascus : a historian's perspective / Astrid Meier -- The Islamic occupation of Qatar in the context of an environmental framework / Phillip G. Macumber -- Water management in desert regions : early Islamic Qasr Mushash / Karin Bartl -- 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 -- Zooarchaeological perspectives on rural economy and landscape use in eighteenth-century Qatar / Pernille Bangsgaard and Lisa Yeomans -- Beyond Iron Age landscapes : copper mining and smelting in Faynan in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries CE / Ian W.N. Jones -- Ceramic production in the central highlands of Yemen during the Islamic Period / Daniel Mahoney -- Harnessing hydraulic power in Ottoman Syria : water mills and the rural economy of the upper Orontes valley / Stephen McPhillips -- The architectural legacy of the seasonally nomadic Ghurids / David C. Thomas and Alison L. Gascoigne -- The Northern Jordan Project and the "liquid landscapes" of late Islamic Bilad al-Sham / Bethany J. Walker -- "Presencing the past" : a case study of Islamic rural burial practices from the Homs Region, Syria / Jennie N. Bradbury -- Sustaining travel : the economy of medieval stopping places across the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan / Paul D. Wordsworth -- Some reflections on rural Islamic landscapes / Alan Walmsley