Archaeology

This volume contains an impressive number of essays by authors from diversebackgrounds. What the title does not indicate is the…

The Ottoman presence in Yemen Divided into two periods, first period from 945 AH until 1045 AH and then the second from 1289 AH…

This paper examines the archeological remains and historical events that took place in the ancient Near East and compares them…

This paper examines the archeological remains and historical events that took place in the ancient Near East and compares them…

From the 9th to the 11th century, Sicily has been part of the Islamic oecumene, the dār al-Islām. Up until now, very few studies…

Light is a universal theme. Scholars have discussed its theosophical points, but it has rarely been addressed archeologically.…

By the end of the 15th century, the discovery of new lands had become a major ambition in Europe. At the time, European…

With the explosion of new material emerging from a branch of archaeology that focuses specifically on Islamic periods and…

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The rarity of material evidence for the religion of Islam during the first seventy years of the hijra (622-92 CE) has been used…

Islamic archaeology emerged as an independent field of inquiry about one hundred years ago.' It developed relatively late…

The discipline of Islamic archaeology may be less familiar to members of the Oriental Institute, which describes itself as…