Material evidence and narrative sources : : interdisciplinary studies of the history of the Muslim Middle East / / edited by Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization ; Volume 108
• TeilnehmendeR: Talmon-Heller, Daniella; Cytryn-Silverman, Katia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 108.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade , Governmental Authority , Material Culture , Changing Landscapes , and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Material Evidence and Narrative Sources. Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East / Daniella Talmon-Heller , Katia Cytryn-Silverman and Yasser Tabbaa -- 1 Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic Evidence / Jere L. Bacharach -- 2 How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic Period / Stefan Heidemann -- 3 Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid Times / Donald Whitcomb -- 4 What Happened in 155 / 771–72? The Testimony of Lead Seals / Nitzan Amitai-Preiss -- 5 The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Literary Sources, Material Evidence and Historical Context / Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese -- 6 On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork / Bethany J. Walker -- 7 Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza—An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings / Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester -- 8 Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Yasser Tabbaa -- 9 Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative Sources / Miriam Kühn -- 10 Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk Patronage / Nimrod Luz -- 11 The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, g.i.s. Applications, and a Re-examination of the Literary Sources / Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus -- 12 The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856–1909 / Daphna Sharef-Davidovich -- 13 Turbat Abū Zakariyyā Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (Chief Surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his Social Status according to his Endowment Deed (waqfiyya) / Hani Hamza -- 14 Oral Tradition and Architectural History: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Mosque in the Balkans in Local Memory, Textual Sources, and Material Evidence / Maximilian Hartmuth -- 15 Deliberately not Empty: Reading Cairo’s Unknown Soldier Monument / Yoram Meital -- Index.