Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective

作者：C. G. Fenwick, John Carman, Vicki Cummings, Timothy Insoll, Colin Breen, Bruce Routledge, John Moreland, Tadhg O’Keeffe, Peter S. Wells, Klavs Randsborg, Daniel Rhodes, Michael Decker, Bill Finlayson, John Schofield, Robin Skeates, Oliver Creighton, Alan Walmsley, Peter G. Gould, Duncan Sayer, Robert Chapman, Sean A. Kingsley, Matt Edgeworth, John C. Barrett, David Kennedy, Laurajane Smith, Kim Bowes, Roberta Tomber, Colin Renfrew, James L. Boone, Christopher Whitehead, Charles Higham, Catherine Hills, David Petts, Jim Leary, Robert Van de Noort, Stephen L. Dyson, Elizabeth Marlowe, Mark Pluciennik, Li Liu, Juán Carlos, Richard Hodges, Susan Oosthuizen, Nicole Rousmaniere, Riccardo Francovich, Daniel Rhodes, Graeme Warren, Alison Wylie, Michael J. Boyd, Emma Waterton, Aidan O’Sullivan, Xingcan Chen, M. Isabel García · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.5040/9781350075221?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburycollections · 被引用次数：39 · 研究领域：Archaeology and Historical Studies、Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis、Historical Studies of Medieval Iberia

This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense urbanization, the appearance of new architectural forms (mosques, housing, hammams), the spread of Muslim social and cultural practices, the introduction of new crops and manufacturing techniques and the establishment of new trading links with sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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\nThis concise and accessible book offers the first assessment of the archaeology of early Islamic North Africa (7th–9th centuries), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. It lays out current debates about its interpretation and suggests new ways of thinking about this crucial period in world history. Essential reading for those interested in understanding the impact of the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam on daily life, it will also challenge students of archaeology and history to think in new ways about North Africa, the earliest Islamic empires and states and the transition from the Roman to the medieval Mediterranean.