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From ‘desert castle’ to medieval town: Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (Syria)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Denis Genequand
Denis Genequand*
Affiliation:
Council for British Research in the Levant, P.O. Box 519, 11941 Jubaiha, Amman, Jordan. (Email: denisgenequand@hotmail.com)
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Abstract

The ‘desert castles’ are intriguing fortresses of early Islam. Here the author shows how the fort became a town, using new research from a key site in Syria.

Keywords

early IslamicmedievalNear Eastdesert castles
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 304 , June 2005 , pp. 350 - 361
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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