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Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the Early Islamic Period - Changing Rivers and Landscapes of the Mesopotamian Plain (Hardcover, New)
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Waterways of Iraq and Iran in the Early Islamic Period - Changing Rivers and Landscapes of the Mesopotamian Plain (Hardcover, New)
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The waterways of ancient Iraq were crucial to its prosperity. While
they were maintained, Iraq and neighbouring Khuzistan, in southwest
Iran, were the richest and most productive agricultural areas of
the Middle East, supporting the Sasanian, Umayyad and Abbasid
empires. When the waterways changed or fell into decay, both the
prosperity and the political role of Iraq largely disappeared.
Understanding the course of the rivers and how they changed is
therefore pivotal to understanding the history of the region. Peter
Verkinderen's important book provides the first major
re-examination of the waterways of early Islamic Iraq in almost
seventy years. Combining a close reading of early Arab geographical
and historical sources with analysis of modern satellite imagery,
the author reconstructs the course of each of the major rivers--the
Euphrates, Tigris, Karun, Jarrahi and Karhe-- from the 7th to the
12th centuries, showing how they changed over the intervening five
hundred years. His extensive use of detailed narrative accounts
found in Arab historical sources has never previously been
undertaken and the use of remote sensing has allowed the author to
link traces of ancient river beds and canal systems to the rivers
and canals mentioned in the early Arab sources. Presenting a much
fuller and more accurate picture than has previously been possible,
Waterways of Iraq is a work of the first importance, unlikely to be
superseded for many years to come.
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