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Focus on Islam II: The rural landscape of Jordan in the seventh-nineteenth centuries AD: the Kerak Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Alison McQuitty
Alison McQuitty*
Affiliation:
Centre for Tourism and Culture Change, Sheffield Hallam University, Molenakkers 25, 5761 BS Bakel, The Netherlands. (Email: f.eykenduyn@planet.nl)
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Abstract

Our knowledge of rural settlement in Jordan during the Islamic periods is strongly coloured by perceptions about the relationship between the ‘Desert’ and the ‘Sown’, between ‘nomad’ and ‘farmer’. This has affected interpretations regarding settlement pattern and economy. In addition, there have been methodological problems in collecting the data relevant to these interpretations. An alternative to this polarised model is suggested and used to interpret the settlement history of Khirbat Faris, more particularly its architecture.

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JordanIslamic archaeologysurveyrural settlementvernacular architecture

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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 304 , June 2005 , pp. 327 - 338
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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