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Islamic Urbanism
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Why Settle in the City?
Sauvaget’s schematic of the Aleppo market from the Roman period to 10th
century.
• Was the Islamic medina something new?
• What happened to the urban landscape of late antiquity?
• Was early Islamic society an urban one?
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Categories of Early Islamic Cities
• Amsar – cities constructed de novo as settlements for Muslim Arab migrants (e.g. Basra, Kufa, Fustat etc.)
• Existing cities and their reoccupation (were these related to the amsar)
• Question of the hadir and settlement outside the classical city
• Royal cities (Baghdad, Samarra, Raqqa, al-Qahira, Hamdanid Aleppo)
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Orthogonal Amsar
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The Khitta
Late antique Umm al-Jamal in Jordanian basalt flats
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Aleppo – Northern Syria
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Excavations at the Aleppo Citadel
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Schematic Model of the Islamic City as Gendered Space
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Sauvaget’s schematic of the Aleppo Market space from Roman period to 10th century.
Concept of the “medina”
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Ayla (Islamic Aqaba)
source Whitcomb (1994)
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Large enclosure
Small Enclosure
Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (eastern Syrian steppe)
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Tiberias/Tabariyya
Source: Stacey (2004)
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Samarra