...This chapter examines the commerce and communications of the Early Islamic Red Sea, discussing the ports and hinterlands of the north (Palestine, Egypt & the Hijaz), the Sudan (Wadi al-‘Allaqi, al-Shunqayr, Wadi Baraka), and the south (Yemen & Ethiopia). It discusses the continued expansion...

...Elamites are the more obscure counterparts of the Babylonian and Assyrian dynasties, inhabiting the southwestern flanks between the Bronze Age and the early Islamic era. They were longtime adversaries of the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. The Elamite language is not rooted in any known...

...Figure 3.3.1 Map of principal Saharan early Islamic sites and associated trade networks. Courtesy of Sam Nixon. Figure 3.3.2 Vase inscribed with the word “Baraka” from Sijilmasa, Morocco, 11th century. Courtesy of Moroccan-American Project at Sijilmasa. Figure 3.3.3 The flank...

...This chapter deals with some comparable texts containing information on how crucifixion as a punishment or method of deterrence was perceived by contemporaries. These texts are Arabic poems, composed during the early Islamic period and the 7th/13th century. Before presenting the poems and relevant...

...The epistle as a representation of Arabic literary genres has a long history. Historical and literary sources abound with samples of letters believed to have been exchanged during the early Islamic period, which provide a glimpse into the early political and social activity in Islamic society...

... spread in the fifth century and reached their high point in the sixth and seventh centuries, continuing into the early Islamic period, only to decline in the eighth century and beyond. Jordan Aqaba church Jordan councils Palaestina Prima Palaestina Secunda Palaestina Tertia Patriarchate of Antioch...

... the Byzantine Christian world, as well as evidence of economic change at the end of the Byzantine period in Egypt. Some aspects of continuity and change into the early Islamic period, as reflected through the material studied, are also briefly considered. Egypt Petrie Museum collection regional diversity...

... The Koran and Psychology Nagaty Nagaty Mohamed Osman The Prophet’s Sunna and Psychology Nagaty Saudi Educational and Psychological Association SEPA modernization History of psychology psychology in Saudi Arabia early Islamic heritage in psychology modern psychology in Saudi Arabia cross-cultural...

... Influence to Translation: The Art of the Global Middle Ages,” held at the University of Edinburgh in June 2012. Previously the two authors had the chance to meet and discuss their respective works on early Islamic art thanks to the Aga Khan fellowship (2008) and more recently (2011) thanks to the projects...

... ensured their place in both critical and religious accounts of early Islamic history. Over the centuries, the Kharijites have repeatedly been invoked whenever militant opposition arose and today the label is frequently applied to extremist Islamic movements. After a brief look at Kharijite origins...

...How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? This book explains how Christians across the early Islamic caliphate slowly converted to the faith of the Arab conquerors and how small groups...

... consisting of members of the village elite. This chapter discusses the relationship of the fiscal village community, administration and elite in Byzantine and early Islamic Egypt. koinon village community fiscal Apions epoikia hamlets landowners nnoc nrōme local elite Oxyrhynchus taxation Aphrodito...

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... of Palestine and Jordan. The discussion evaluates the process of change in a dynamic multicultural society, showing that the coming of Islam had no direct effect on settlement patterns and the material culture of the local population. The gradual change in settlement culminated during the Early Islamic period...

... directly from the early Islamic tradition, and its legacy remained deeply inscribed into the ways history was written and represented between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. However, as historians started to develop new styles and new genres, they turned to previously neglected aspects of the past...

... in character, the chapter shows that Ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb was by no means indifferent to politics and indeed played an active role in the political realm. His movement's development followed a pattern analogous to the development of early Islam, which began without any discernible political objective...

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... ‘Abd al Rahman ibn Abu Hamid Hadariba Khawr Nubt Sawakin al Aswani Abu Sulaym Baqt Dahlak Islands ivory al Muqurra Early Islamic Red Sea Arabian-Nubian Shield mineral exploitation Arab slave trade Bejaland The consolidation of the conquests and creation of a centralized state began...

... understanding how people actually reacted in these uncertain times. Arce Ignacio Cranial trauma accidental occupational Early Islamic period Jordan Qasr Hallabat Jordan abandonment of Spanish Archaeological Mission Trauma blunt force accidental Trauma sharp force frequency of Umayyads Amman Jordan...