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The Formation of the Civilian Elite in the Syrian Province: The Case of Ayyubid and Early Mamluk Hamah [PDF]
, 2008 The urban renaissance in northern Syria from the sixth/twelfth century onwards increased significantly the demand for scholars in order to staff newly arising civilian posts. This demand was in Hama initially satisfied with outside scholars, particularly
Hirschler, Konrad
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Heritage Science, 2021 Glass beads excavated from Nanhai I shipwreck were investigated with scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM–EDS), Raman spectroscopy, multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) and X-ray ...
Chenxin Tian +5 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie III, Historia Medieval, 2020 El objetivo de este artículo es resaltar uno de los factores decisivos en el enfrentamiento que durante el siglo X mantuvieron los Omeyas cordobeses y los califas fāṭimíes, y que tuvo como su principal escenario el Magreb Occidental, en la que hemos ...
José Luis de Villar Iglesias
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The Muslims of medieval Italy [Book Review] [PDF]
, 2012 This article reviews the book 'The Muslims of medieval Italy', by Alex ...
Drury, Abdullah
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
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A study on the Introduction and Use of Cold Damage Diseases-related Literature in the Early Joseon Dynasty: Focusing on Publishing, Citation, and Textbooks [PDF]
Uisahak, 2019 The status or role of Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases) in Joseon is quite different compared to neighboring China and Japan. This is a unique aspect that distinguishes Joseon’s medicine from other East Asian countries at that time.
Hun Pyeong Park
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CULTURAL FUSION IN LATE BRONZE AGE GOLDWORK: DIADEMS AND MOUTH‐PIECES FROM HALA SULTAN TEKKE, CYPRUS
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 151-179, May 2026.Summary This study investigates recently discovered gold diadems and mouth‐pieces from seven chamber tombs and one shaft tomb at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke, dating from the fifteenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. The chamber tombs, all containing multi‐generational burials, yielded a variety of ornaments, which are analysed in ...
Peter M. Fischer
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Royal Studies Journal, 2023 Like many other dynasties in the History of Islam in the Middle Ages, the Banū Naṣr (1232-1492) created their own palaces as both their seat of power and royal residence at the Alhambra in Granada, the city chosen as the capital of their kingdom in 1238.
Barbara Boloix-Gallardo
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