Changes [Dec 05, 2007]
Weekly Schedule/Rea...Lab #4
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Changes [Dec 05, 2007]
Weekly Schedule/Rea...CLASS SESSIONS – Topics, Readings and Assignments:
Week 1: Preliminaries
9/5: Course Introduction – Islam: Religion, Civilization, and Culture
9/7: Archaeology – Approaching the past through material remains
The Strengths and Limits of Archaeology.pdf
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
Geography and the Territory of the Muslim World.pdf
9/12: Mohammed and Charlemagne – Why study the Muslim world? (discussion session)
Reading Questions for Mohammed and Charlemagne 2007.doc
9/14: Lab #1 – Introduction to the collection
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)
Week 3: Establishing a Discipline
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.
Week 4: Frameworks of an Historical Archaeology
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
Week 5: Arabia – Where it all began
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
Week 6: Continuity and Rupture in the Early Islamic Landscape
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)
Week 7: The Umayyad Dynasty
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.
Week 8: Urbanism in the early Muslim world
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)
• 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.
Week 10: The Edges of Empire
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)
Week 11: Contact with the West
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?
Week 12: Politcs
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
Week 13: Islamic archaeology in Sub-Saharan Africa and the question of cultural syncretism
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.
Week 15: Reading Period
12/10: Presentations of Lab projects –
12/12: Quiz #2
Lab Projects due noon Thursday Dec. 13
Paper 2 due noon Friday Dec. 14
