This book represents the first sustained attempt to understand Islamic urbanism and court life from an interdisciplinary approach. Samarra, the last great example of early Islamic city building in Iraq, was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate and the center of court culture during the second half of the ninth century. Although archaeologists and art historians have worked on the site extensively, the bounty of numismatic, literary, and historical evidence has hardly been tapped. Since much of this evidence overlaps, Samarra offers unique insights into the character of city building, administration, military history, court life (ritual, court poetry), and imperial ideology throughout this period.
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Chase Robinson, Lecturer in Islamic History, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford.
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much like all the frenetic building, manifests the hothouse atmosphere of the city, as tax revenues and rents fertilised its explosive growth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
donative issues, photogrammetric plan, ooo dirhams, geographorum arabicorum, precious metal coinage, dome chamber, palatial architecture, hunting palace, ooo dinars, terminus post quern, outer enclosure, exceptional types, military cantonments, stucco decoration, baked brick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samarran Turks, Congregational Mosque, Ibn Taghribirdi, Directorate-General of Antiquities, Qasr al Juss, Central Asian, Near East, Samarra Survey, Herzfeld Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Ibn Serapion, Upper Palace New!
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much like all the frenetic building, manifests the hothouse atmosphere of the city, as tax revenues and rents fertilised its explosive growth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
donative issues, photogrammetric plan, ooo dirhams, geographorum arabicorum, precious metal coinage, dome chamber, palatial architecture, hunting palace, ooo dinars, terminus post quern, outer enclosure, exceptional types, military cantonments, stucco decoration, baked brick Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samarran Turks, Congregational Mosque, Ibn Taghribirdi, Directorate-General of Antiquities, Qasr al Juss, Central Asian, Near East, Samarra Survey, Herzfeld Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Ibn Serapion, Upper Palace New!
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- Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East by Tarif Khalidi in Back Matter
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- Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures by Professor Michael Baxandall in Back Matter
- Mannerism in Arabic Poetry: A Structural Analysis of Selected Texts (3rd Century AH/9th Century AD - 5th Century AH/11th Century AD) (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Stefan Sperl in Back Matter
- The Shaping of Abbasid Rule (Princeton studies on the Near East) by Jacob Lassner in Back Matter
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