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Monasteries, Cities, Settlements

al-Hira and Urbanism in Early Islamic Mesopotamia. Proceedings of the Workshop in Berlin, December 2018, contributions by Mohamad Hadi Bidan, Andrea Luigi Corsi, Barbara Finster, Martin Gussone, Hasan Issa Al-Hakim, Arnulf Hausleiter, Martina Müller-Wiener, Marie-Odile Rousset, Dheyaa Makki Al-Safaar, Mohamad Saleh, Ibrahim Salman and Isabel Toral. Edited by Martina Müller-Wiener, Martin Gussone and Ibrahim Salman.

In the 7th and 8th centuries, numerous new cities were founded in what is now Iraq, often in the vicinity of existing settlements. The international conference, whose contributions are presented here, examined this phenomenon and the accompanying processes of transformation, using the case study of al-Hira as a starting point. The volume combines source-based contributions on the history of events and historical topography with the presentation and analysis of the results of settlement archaeological investigations and excavations that have been carried out in the area of historic al-Hira since 2015. Supplementary papers use comparisons to place the case study of al-Hira in a supra-regional context. XII,239 Seiten mit 232 Abb., Großformat, gebunden (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut - Orient-Archäologie; Band 45/HIRA; Band 1/Harrassowitz Verlag 2025) leichte Lagerspuren/unused, minor shelfwear