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Umm El Madayan : an Islamic city through the ages
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Umm El Madayan : an Islamic city through the ages

Author: Abderrahman Ayoub; Francesco Corni; et al
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces, in detailed drawings and text, the development through the ages of a fictional Islamic city in North Africa.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Umm El Madayan. English.
Umm El Madayan.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1994
(OCoLC)607221239
Online version:
Umm El Madayan. English.
Umm El Madayan.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1994
(OCoLC)609286457
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Abderrahman Ayoub; Francesco Corni; et al
ISBN: 0395659671 : 9780395659670
OCLC Number: 28181604
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 61 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.
Contents: Hunter-gatherers / Mid- to late Paleolithic Age --
Snail eaters / Neolithic Age, 7000-3000 B.C. --
Iron Age village / 2000 B.C. --
Birth of a PhoenicianCity / 9th-8th century B.C. --
Punic-Numidian city at its zenith / 7th-3rd century B.C. --
Roman-African city / 2nd century B.C.-3rd century A.D. --
Late Christian antiquity / 5th-6th century A.D. --
Umm El Madayan: beginnings of an Islamic city / 7th-8th century --
New Arab culture / 9th-12th century --
Hospitable city, cultural crucible / 13th-15th century --
Golden age of a commercial city / 16th century --
In the orbit of the Ottoman Empire / Late 16th-17th century --
Umm El Madayan, yesterday and today / 19th-Mid-20th century --
Dawn of the 21st century.
Other Titles: Umm El Madayan.
Responsibility: Abderrahman Ayoub ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Francesco Corni ; translated by Kathleen Leverich.

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Traces, in detailed drawings and text, the development through the ages of a fictional Islamic city in North Africa.

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