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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: AlSayyad, Nezar. Cities and caliphs. New York : Greenwood Press, 1991 (OCoLC)647529946 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nezar AlSayyad |
| ISBN: | 0313277915 9780313277917 |
| OCLC Number: | 22629621 |
| Description: | xi, 196 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | I. Prologue: The Study of Urban Form and The Problem of the Muslim City -- II. The Typical Muslim City: A Historiography of a Concept -- III. Urban Creations of the Early Muslim Arabs: The Garrison town as a Prototype -- IV. Urban Transformations in Early Islam: Arabization or Islamization of Existing Cities -- V. Planned Capital Cities: Ideal Constructs or Imperial Palaces -- VI. Epilogue: The Arab Muslim City and The Genesis of Urban Form: Religious Ideology Versus Caliphal Authority |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of world history, no. 26. |
| Responsibility: | Nezar AlSayyad. |
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- Islamic cities and towns -- Arab countries -- History.
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- Urbanisatie.
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