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Identifying changes: the transition from Bronse to Iron

Genz, Hermann; Fischer, Bettina (Türk Eskiçağ Bilimleri Enstitüsü, )
Imperial Norms and Local Realities: The Ottoman Municipal Laws and the Municipality of Beirut (1860-1908)

Sharif, Malek (Orient Institute Beirut, )

In this study, Malek Sharif revises and rejects the widely held assumption that the municipal institution of the Ottoman Tanzimat period was imposed on the provinces by the central authorities of the Empire. This study ...
Imperial Power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the Later Middle Ages

Meloy, John (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, )

This clear, well-written book describes the history of the Sharifate of Mecca and its relationship with the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo from 1395 to 1517. When scholars of Middle Eastern and Islamic history consider Mecca ...
In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal S

Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim; Khalidi, Tarif; Murad, Suleiman (AUB Press, )

Kamal S. Salibi is primarily renowned for his monumental contributions to the history of Lebanon. Yet, his scholarly legacy extends well beyond Lebanon to topics that span the Middle East from biblical to contemporary ...
Insights into Hittite History and Archaeology

Genz, Hermann; Mielke, D.P. (Peeters Press, )

Hitherto, research on the Hittites has been highly specialised and often separated by discipline: history, philology, and archaeology (in which natural sciences are taking a more prominent role). Unfortunately, no up-to-date ...
Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

Dallal, Ahmad (Yale University Press, )
It could be a lot worse: Imperial Russia's performing arts censorship in comparative perspective

Du Quenoy P. (, 2012)

Histories of the Russian Empire's cultural life have long dwelled on the role of censorship in its stage culture. Long thought to be an oppressive arm of the tsarist state, its theatrical censorship usually appears as ...
Kleisthenes and the league of Athena Pallenis

March D.A. (, 2008)

[No abstract available]
Letter to the editor

Du Quenoy P. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2011)

[No abstract available]
Money and sovereignty in Mecca: Issues of the sharifs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Meloy J.L. (LEIDENPLANTIJNSTRAAT 2, P O BOX 9000, 2300 PA LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS, 2010)

The sharifs of Mecca in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries minted coins that formed the basis of the local monetary system. The Meccan dirham, debased during this period until it was reduced to a copper coin, was an ...
Narcissus: Woman, water and the West

Wick A. (BASINGSTOKEBRUNEL RD BLDG, HOUNDMILLS, BASINGSTOKE RG21 6XS, HANTS, ENGLAND, 2013)

This essay explores the symbiotic relationship between European modernity, its vision of woman and water. The union of these three metaconcepts is consecrated by the Ovidian story of Narcissus and his other, Echo. The West ...
On the exclusion of the palestinian nakba from the trauma genre

Sayigh R. (BERKELEYC-O JOURNALS and DIGITAL PUBLISHING DIVISION, 2000 CENTER ST, STE 303, BERKELEY, CA 94704-1223 USA, 2013)

The extensive literature on trauma, social suffering, memory and loss has so far excluded consideration of the Palestinian Nakba, in spite of its place in world politics, its many similarities to other cases of social ...
On the Road to the Abode of Felicity: Observations of a Damascene Scholar in Anatolia and Istanbul in 1530

Abu Hussein, Tarek; Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2017-08)

This paper explores the journey of Damascene scholar Mohammed Badreddin al-Ghazi in the wake of the Ottoman conquest of the Bilad al-Sham (1530). His account gains its historical significance from the description of the ...
Oral histories of Ras Beirut nostalgia, memory and the construction of history

Ghaida S.A.; Al Zougbi A. (MSIDAUNIV MALTA, MSIDA, MALTA, 2005)

The 'Golden Age' of Beirut is said to have been that period between the 1950s and 1960s, when the city was thriving economically and was the hub of Arab and foreign intellectuals. In particular it is Ras Beirut, home to ...
Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes: Papers from the Theban Workshop 2006

Dorman, Peter F. (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, )

The manuscript consists of seven papers presented at the Theban Workshop, 2006. Within the temporal and spatial boundaries indicated by the title, the subjects of the papers are extremely diverse, ranging from models of ...
Post-collapse: The re-emergence of polity in iron age boǧazköy, central anatolia

Kealhofer L.; Grave P.; Genz H.; Marsh B. (, 2009)

How communities reorganize after collapse is drawing increasing attention across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Iron Age Boǧazköy provides an archaeological case study of urban and political regeneration after the widespread ...
Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Newson, Paul; Young, R. (Routledge, )

Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage draws together a series of papers from archaeological and heritage professionals seeking positive, pragmatic, and practical ways to deal with conflict-damaged sites. The book ...
Problems in the ottoman administration in syria during the 16th and 17th centuries: The case of the sanjak of sidon-beirut

Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahim (Cambridge University Press, 1992)

The history of the mountain hinterland of Sidon and Beirut—the area often referred to as the Druze Mountain—has hitherto been treated mainly as parochial Lebanese history, with inadequate reference to the Ottoman administrative ...
Provenance study of excavated pottery from Beirut using PIXE cluster analysis

Roumie M.; Reynolds P.; Atallah C.; Bakraji E.; Zahraman K.; Nsouli B. (AMSTERDAMPO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 2006)

The study of imported ceramics found in Beirut and suspected to belong to north Syrian products will provide key evidence for the roles in trade of the various postulated centers in northern Syria and northern Lebanon. It ...
Radiocarbon evidence for the early Bronze Age Levant: The site of tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the end of the early bronze III period

Hoflmayer F.; Dee M.W.; Genz H.; Riehl S. (University of Arizona; TUCSONRADIOCARBON 4717 E FORT LOWELL RD, TUCSON, AZ 85712 USA, 2014)

Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid- to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to ...

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