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Introduction: The Physical World as a Social World |
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Part One Contributions to Environmental History |
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Section One Socialized Landscapes |
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A Medieval Garden City: Mamluk Cairo's Food Supplies and Urban Landscape |
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33 | (16) |
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The Landscape of Southern Bilad al-Sham through the Eyes of the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Cosmographer Asik Mehmed |
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49 | (30) |
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Equipped with Shovels, Pickaxes, and Books: Treasure Hunters and Grave Robbers in Medieval Egypt |
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79 | (24) |
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Section Two Resource Management |
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Reassessing the Building Craze in Mamluk Cairo: Meeting the Demand of Building Material |
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103 | (36) |
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Water and the City: Ottoman Sofia in the Early Modern Period |
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139 | (20) |
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Animal Husbandry and Landscape Exploitation in Mamluk Southern Bilad-Sham: The Evidence from Tall Hisban |
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159 | (22) |
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Section Three Disease and Environmental Crises |
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1068 in the Fayyum: A Micro-History of an Environmental Crisis |
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181 | (22) |
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The Local Ramifications of a Global Catastrophe: The Impact of the Black Death on the Mamluk Sultanate, 1341-1382 |
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203 | (18) |
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An Analysis of What Fostered Resilience of the Irish Sea Area Gaels and the Bedouin of the Mamluk Frontier Leading Up to the Black Death |
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221 | (38) |
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Part Two Contributions to Material Culture Studies Section One - Complexity of Patronage |
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The Complex of Qalawun in Cairo: Connoisseurship in Early Mamluk Architecture |
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259 | (26) |
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The Curious Case of a Fourteenth-Century Madrasa: Agency, Patronage and the Foundation of the Madrasa of Umm al-Sultan Sha'ban |
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285 | (26) |
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Shaping the Material Culture of Cairo in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century: A Case Study in the Patronage of Amir Sirghatmish al-Nasiri |
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311 | (38) |
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Con textual izing the Patronage of Mamluk Minbars: A Case Study of the Minbar in the Mosque of Asalbay in Madinat al-Faiyum |
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349 | (26) |
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Section Two The Materiality of Identity |
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Walls of Identities: Built Environment as a Social Marker |
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375 | (26) |
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The Material Culture in Shawbak Between Crusaders, Ayyubids and Mamluks: The Case-Study of Hospitaller's Chapel |
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401 | (22) |
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Islamic Material Culture in Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Contexts: Shifting Meanings and Methodological Problems |
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423 | (30) |
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Section Three The Materiality of Ritual |
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Social and Cultural Interpretation of Material Culture: The Example of Lighting Devices in Mamluk Mosques |
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453 | (22) |
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Devotion and Protection: Amuletic Scrolls Dating from the 14th Century: A Contribution with Special Consideration of Is 1624 (Dublin) |
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475 | (60) |
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"By the Pen and what they inscribe": A Study of Pen-Related Rituals in Ottoman Calligraphy |
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Section Four Decoding Daily Life |
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Moving Beyond Dating: What Else Might the Presence of Mamluk Copper Coins in the Petra Region Represent? |
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563 | (14) |
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Stuff of the Mind: Mother-of-Pearl Table Cabinets of Ottoman Scholars in the Early Modern Period |
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577 | (62) |
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Part Three Bridging the "Cap": Practice and Knowledge Transfer |
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The Vernacularization of Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Agricultural Science in its Economic Context |
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639 | (44) |
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Timekeeper-Teachers and their Discursive Instruments: A Material Approach to Al-Jami' al-mufid fi bayan usul al-taqwim wa-l-mawalid |
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683 | (22) |
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The Contribution of European Travel Literature to the Study of the Environmental History of the Levant (13th-15th centuries) |
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705 | (20) |
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| Biographies |
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