Changes [Dec 05, 2007]
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Changes [Dec 05, 2007]
Weekly Schedule/Rea...
Week 1: Preliminaries
9/5: Course Introduction – Islam: Religion, Civilization, and Culture
9/7: Archaeology – Approaching the past through material remains
Readings:
• Carefully read through this syllabus and come with any questions to the second session.
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (at this point I ask you only to skim through this volume to get a sense of the geographical and cultural diversity of the regions that form the Muslim world. We will read specific essays from this book throughout the course as appropriate.)
• Kennedy, H. 2004. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century. 2nd ed. London: Longman (Chs. 1 and 2: pages 1-49)
Week 2: Preliminaries continued
9/10: Geography and Territory of the Muslim World
9/12: Mohammed and Charlemagne – Why study the Muslim world? (discussion session)
9/14: Lab #1 – Introduction to the collection
The Strengths and Limits of Archaeology.pdf
Geography and the Territory of the Muslim World.pdf
Reading Questions for Mohammed and Charlemagne 2007.doc
This is the page for the map assignement
Readings:
• Hodges R. and D. Whitehouse. 1983. Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Walmsley, A. 2007. “Material Culture and Society.” In Early Islamic Syria: An archaeological assessment. 48-70, London: Duckworth. (read this for Friday’s lab session)
9/17: The world before Islam – A picture of late antiquity East and West
9/19: Defining Islamic Archaeology (discussion session)
9/21: Lab #2 – Exploring the objects, searching for parallels.
Readings:
Reading Questions for Week 3 articles.doc
• Insoll, T. 2001. “The Archaeology of Islam” in Archaeology and world religion. London: New York, Routledge. (Chapter 5)
• Whitcomb, D. ed. 2003. Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam: Archaeological Perspectives. Chicago: Oriental Institute (Introduction pp 1-7)
• Northedge, A. (1999). Archaeology and Islam. Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology. G. Barker. London, Routledge: 1077-1107.
• Peterson, A. (2005). "What is 'Islamic' Archaeology." Antiquity 79: 100-106.
• Walmsley, A. (2004). Archaeology and Islamic Studies: The development of a relationship. In Handaxe to Khan: Essays presented to Peder Mortensen on the occasion of his 70th birthday. K. v. Folsach, H. Thrane and I. Thuesen. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press.
9/24: Archaeology and the study of early Islamic History
Archaeology and Early Islamic Geography.pdf
9/26: Early Islamic Geography
Archaeology and Early Islamic History.ppt
9/28: Discussion of Moreland’s Archaeology and Text (discussion session)
Readings:
• Johns, J. (2003). "Archaeology and the History of Early Islam." JESHO 46(4): 411-436.
• al-Muqaddasi (1994). The best divisions for knowledge of the regions : a translation of Ahsan al-taqasim fi marifat al-aqalim. Reading, UK, Centre for Muslim Contribution to Civilisation: Garnet Publishing. (Section on Arabian Peninsula)
• Moreland, J. 2001. Archaeology and Text. London: Duckworth
10/1: Mecca and Medina – The sacred precincts of Islam (al-haramayn)
10/3: The origins of the mosque and its later institutional role
EarlyIslamicMosque_InstitutionalRole.pdf
10/5: Lab #3: What can we learn from old pots, even broken ones?
Papertopic_ARCH0600_moreland2.doc
Readings:
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapter 1)
• Sauvaget, J. (2002 [1947]). The Mosque and the Palace. Early Islamic Art and Architecture. J. Bloom. Burlington, VT, Ashgate: 109-148.
• Walmsley, A. and K. Damgaar (2005). "The Umayyad congregational mosque of Jarash in Jordan and its relationship to early mosques." Antiquity 79: 362-378.
• Watson, O. 2004. Ceramics From Islamic Lands. (pp35-59)
• Mason, Robert. 1995. “New Looks at old Pots: Results of Recent Multidisciplinary Studies of Glazed Ceramics from the Islamic World” Muqarnas 12: 1-10
• Peters, F. E. (1998). Introduction. The Arabs and Arabia on the Eve of Islam. F. E. Peters. Burlington, Vt., Ashgate: xi-xlix
10/8: No Class (Columbus Day)
10/10: Urban transformations and Muslim settlement
10/12: Lab #4: Pottery drawing and description
Readings:
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapter 2)
• Kennedy, H. (1985). "From Polis to Medina." Past and Present 106: 3-27.
• Ibn Khaldun, M. (1958). The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history. New York, Pantheon Books. (selections)
10/15: Conquest and colonialism - Landscape continuities and disruptions
10/17: Umayyad Monumentality - Case study of the “desert castles”
10/19: Quiz #1
Readings:
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapter 3)
• Whitcomb, D. (1994). "Amsar in Syria? Syrian cities after the Conquest." ARAM 6: 13-33.
• Khoury, N. (1993). "The Dome of the Rock, the Ka'ba, and Ghumdan: Arab Myths and Umayyad Monuments." Muqarnas 10: 57-65.
• Bacharach, J. (1996). "Marwanid building activities: speculations on patronage." Muqarnas 13: 27-44.
• 'Athamina, K. (1986). "Arab Settlement During the Umayyad Caliphate." Jerusalem Studies of Arabic and Islam 8: 185-207.
10/22: The problem of the “Islamic city”
10/24: Amsār and early urban foundations: The case of Fustat
10/26: Lab #5: Consumption Practices (a practical discussion)
Readings:
• Abu-Lughod, J. L. (1987). "The Islamic City--Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 19(155-76).
• Northedge, A. (1992). Archaeology and New Urban Settlement in Early Islamic Syria and Iraq. The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East: Land use and settlement patterns. G. R. D. King and A. Cameron. Princeton, NJ, Darwin Press. 2: 231-266.
• Scanlon, G. (1992). Al-Fustat: The riddle of the Earliest Settlement. The Byzantine and early Islamic Near East: Land use and settlement patterns. G. R. D. King and A. Cameron. Princeton, NJ, Darwin Press. 2: 171-180.
• Al-Jahiz. (1999 {late 8th century}). Avarice and the Avaricious (Kitab al-Bukhala). Trans. Jim Colville. (selections) (Read for Friday’s lab session)
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• Bulliet, R. W. (1992). Pottery Styles and Social Status in Medieval Khurasan. Archaeology, Annales and Ethnohistory. A. B. Knapp. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (Read for Friday’s lab session)
Week 9: Urban life
10/29: Baghdad and Samarra – The birth of the royal city under the Abbasid Dynasty
10/31: Al-Qahira (Cairo) – The Fatimid Empire and its capital
The Royal City of al-Qahira.pdf
11/2: Domestic architecture and the space of everyday life (Discussion session focused on the Goitein reading)
Readings:
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapter 4)
• Northedge, A. (2005). "Remarks on Samarra and the archaeology of large cities." Antiquity 79: 119-129.
• Goitein, S. D. 1967. A Mediterranean society : the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. Berkeley, University of California Press. Volume 4 “Daily Life” pp. 1-81.
11/5: Frontiers and Fortifications
11/7: The view from Muslim Spain
11/9: Lab #6: Things that aren't made of clay
Readings:
• Kennedy, Hugh. 2005. Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria from the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period: From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman. (selected articles)
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapters 6 and 9)
11/12: Archaeology and the Crusader Principalities
11/14: Guest Lecture: Renata Holod - The Kipchak Burial
11/16: Discussion of Abu Lughod’s Before European Hegemony (discussion session)
Readings:
• Boas, A. J. (1999). Crusader archaeology: the material culture of the Latin East. London: Routledge. (Chapter 4)
• Ellenblum, R. (1996). "Colonization Activities in the Frankish East: The Example of Castellum Regis (Mi'ilya) " English Historical Review: 104-122.
• Abu-Lughod, J. L. (1989). Before European Hegemony: The world system A.D. 1250-1350.Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Pages 3-40, 102-134, 137-151,185-245)
• Article on Textile Trade?
11/19: Politics of Islamic Archaeology
11/21: Technically we have class, but…
11/23: No Class. Thanksgiving break. Enjoy!
Readings:
• Silberman, N. A. (1989). Tobacco Pipes, Cotton Prices, and Progress (Ch 13). Between past and present : archaeology, ideology, and nationalism in the modern Middle East. New York: H. Holt. (pages 228-243)
• Begin to work on your readings for the lab projects and second essays
11/26: Gold, Scholars, and the Kingdoms of West Africa
IsalmicArchaeology_WesternSahel.pdf
11/28: The Red Sea and East African coasts
IslamicArch_redSea_EastAfrica.pdf
11/30: Lab #7: Project preparations
Readings:
• Nicolle, D. 2003. Historical Atlas of the Islamic World. Checkmark Books (Chapter 10)
• Insoll, T. (2003). The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 1, 7 and 9)
Week 14:
12/3: Technological Processes and Industrial Production (guest lecture – Carrie Swan)
12/5: Ottoman period archaeology
12/7: Review Session with TA
Readings:
• Hasan, A. Y. and D. R. Hill (1986). Islamic technology : an illustrated history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (sections)
• Baram, U. and L. Carroll eds. (2000). A historical archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: breaking new ground. New York: Kluwer Academic. (Chapters 1, 5, 10 and 11).
Recommended:
• Henderson, J. et al. (2005). "Experiment and innovation: early Islamic industry at al-Raqqa, Syria." Antiquity 79: 103-45.
12/10: Presentations of Lab projects –
12/12: Quiz #2
Lab Projects due noon Thursday Dec. 13
Paper 2 due noon Friday Dec. 14
