List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Prologue Four Eyewitness Accounts versus 'Arguments in Stone'
1: Shifting Paradigms for the Byzantine: Islamic Transition
2: From Polis to Madina: The Evolution of Large Urban
Communities
3: A Tale of Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramla in the Early Islamic
Period
4: The Changing Land: Settlement Patterns and Ethnic Identities
5: The Transformation of Settlement and Society: A Synthesis
6: Conclusion
Appendix I: Cities in Byzantine Palestine, Phoenice, and Arabia
Appendix II: Early Islamic Settlements in Palestine and Jordan
Appendix III: Regional Surveys Byzantine and Early Islamic
Sites
Bibliography
Index
Gideon Avni is the Head of the Archaeological Division in the
Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of
Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His academic
interests focus on various aspects of Classical, Late Antique and
Early Islamic archaeology, the cultural and religious
transformation of the Near East from Byzantine to Islamic rule, and
the archaeology of desert societies in the Levant. He has conducted
extensive fieldwork in
the Negev Desert, Beth Guvrin, Jerusalem, and Ramla.
In The Byzantine-Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archeological
Approach, Gideon Avni provides a synthesis of current knowledge on
the archaeology of Palestine and Jordan in the period from the
sixth to eleventh centuries ... Avni provides a huge service to
other scholars in bringing together a large amount of recent,
specialist material in an accessible format.
*Phil Booth, American Historical Review*
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