Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017)

Guest Editor’s Preface

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Old Buipe (Ghana, Northern Region) Some Observations on Islamization and Urban Development at the South-Western Margins of the dar al-islam

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The Mosques of Songo Mnara in their Urban Landscape

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First Footsteps in the Archaeology of Harar, Ethiopia

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Residue Analysis as Evidence of Activity Areas and Phased Abandonment in a Medieval Jordanian Village

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Les mosquées ibadites du Djebel Nafusa. Architecture, histoire et religions du nordouest de la Libye (VIIIe-XIIe siècle) by Virginie Prevost. Society for Libyan Studies, Monograph 10, 2016. 170 full-colour photographs, illustrations and plans. 254pp, Pb.

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The Last Civilized Place: Sijilmasa and its Saharan Destiny by Ronald A. Messier and James A. Miller. University of Texas Press, 2015. 296pp., 42 b&w photos, 14 b&w illust, 11 maps. Pb. $29.95. ISBN-13: 9781477311356.

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In God’s Path: The Arab Conquest and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by Robert Hoyland. Oxford University Press, 2014. 320pp., 30 illustrations, including map. Hb. 29.95, ISBN-13: 9780199916368. Pb. (2017) $19.95, ISBN-13: 9780190618575.

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Iranische Hieb-, Stich- und Schutzwaffen des 15.–19. Jahrhunderts (Iranian striking and thrusting weapons and armor from the 15th–19th centuries) by Filiz Çakir Phillip. De Gruyter, 2016. 382pp. Hb. $140.00, ISBN-13: 978-3110318135.

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Sharma. Un entrepôt de commerce médiéval sur la côte du Hadramawt (Yémen, ca. 980–1180) edited by Axelle Rougeulle. British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs 17. 2015, ArchaeoPress. 582pp., illustrated throughout in colour and black & white.

Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History and Ethnography by Stephen McPhillips and Paul D.Wordsworth. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 272pp., with 56 illusrations. Hb. $75.00. ISBN-13: 9780812247640.

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The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols by Christoph Baumer. IB Tauris, 2016. 392pp., 266 colour illustrations, 11 maps. Hb. £30.00, ISBN-13: 9781784534905.

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