The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Land Use and Settlement Patterns

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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Land Use and Settlement Patterns

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Edited by Geoffrey King, Averil Cameron

Publisher:: Gerlach Books
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9783959940870
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9783959940870

Subjects:: Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
Series:: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East.

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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East

Land Use and Settlement Patterns

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Abbreviations
pp vii-viii

List of Figures
pp ix-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-16

1 - Villages du Proche-Orient protobyzantin (4ème–7ème s.). Étude régionale
pp 17-48

2 - Settlements and Settlement Patterns in Northern and Central Transjordania, ca 550–ca 750
pp 49-94

3 - From Scythopolis to Baysan – Changing Concepts of Urbanism
pp 95-116

4 - An Archaeological Perspective. Case Studies from Northern Palestine and Jordan
pp 117-132

5 - The Settlement Pattern of Southern Jordan: The Nature of the Evidence
pp 133-154

6 - The Miṣr of Ayla: Settlement at al-‘Aqaba in the Early Islamic Period
pp 155-170

7 - Al-Fust.at.: The Riddle of the Earliest Settlement
pp 171-180

8 - Settlement in Western and Central Arabia and the Gulf in the Sixth-Eighth Centuries A.D.
pp 181-212

9 - Late Ancient and Early Mediaeval Yemen: Settlement Traditions and Innovations
pp 213-220

10 - Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq
pp 221-230

11 - Archaeology and New Urban Settlement in Early Islamic Syria and Iraq
pp 231-266

Concluding Remarks
pp 267-270

Figures
pp 271-318

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