Aleppo : A History Paperback / softback
by Ross (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) Burns
Part of the Cities of the Ancient World series
Paperback / softback
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Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East.
Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular an active traditional suq, with a continuous tradition going back centuries.
Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a ‘high place’ in the Canaanite tradition. In the Arab Middle Ages, Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence.
Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition.
In Mamluk and Ottoman times, the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant.
Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras.
Its diverse ethnic mixture, with significant Kurdish, Turkish, Christian and Armenian communities, provide a richer layering of influences on the city’s life. In this volume, Ross Burns explores Aleppo's rich history from its earliest history through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history, accessible both to scholarly readers and to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city’s past.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:19/12/2017
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- ISBN:9780815367987
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:340 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:19/12/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780815367987
