This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings
together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by
architectural and textual historians and archaeologists,
engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the
pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move beyond the
long-standing debate on whether an 'Islamic city' existed in the
pre-modern era and focus instead upon the ways in which religion
may (or may not) have influenced the physical structure of cities
and the daily lives of their inhabitants. It approaches this topic
from three different but inter-related perspectives: the genesis of
'Islamic cities' in fact and fiction; the impact of Muslim rulers
upon urban planning and development; and the degree to which a
religious ethos affected the provision of public services.
Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging, the volume
examines thought-provoking case studies from seventh-century Syria
to seventeenth-century Mughal India by established and new scholars
in the field, in addition to chapters on urban sites in Spain,
Morocco, Egypt and Central Asia.
Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World will be of considerable
interest to academics and students working on the archaeology,
history and urbanism of the Middle East as well as those with more
general interests in urban archaeology and urbanism.
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