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The Last Civilized Place - Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny (Paperback)
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The Last Civilized Place - Sijilmasa and Its Saharan Destiny (Paperback)
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Set along the Sahara's edge, Sijilmasa was an African El Dorado, a
legendary city of gold. But unlike El Dorado, Sijilmasa was a real
city, the pivot in the gold trade between ancient Ghana and the
Mediterranean world. Following its emergence as an independent
city-state controlling a monopoly on gold during its first 250
years, Sijilmasa was incorporated into empire-Almoravid, Almohad,
and onward-leading to the "last civilized place" becoming the
cradle of today's Moroccan dynasty, the Alaouites. Sijilmasa's
millennium of greatness ebbed with periods of war, renewal, and
abandonment. Today, its ruins lie adjacent to and under the modern
town of Rissani, bypassed by time. The Moroccan-American Project at
Sijilmasa draws on archaeology, historical texts, field
reconnaissance, oral tradition, and legend to weave the story of
how this fabled city mastered its fate. The authors' deep local
knowledge and interpretation of the written and ecological record
allow them to describe how people and place molded four distinct
periods in the city's history. Messier and Miller compare models of
Islamic cities to what they found on the ground to understand how
Sijilmasa functioned as a city. Continuities and discontinuities
between Sijilmasa and the contemporary landscape sharpen questions
regarding the nature of human life on the rim of the desert. What,
they ask, allows places like Sijilmasa to rise to greatness? What
causes them to fall away and disappear into the desert sands?
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