By Nimrod Luz
The Mamluk urban within the heart East bargains an interdisciplinary examine of city heritage, city adventure, and the character of urbanism within the sector lower than the guideline of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). The e-book specializes in 3 less-explored yet politically major towns within the Syrian quarter - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon) - and offers a brand new technique and method for knowing ancient towns. Drawing on diversified textual resources and extensive box surveys, Nimrod Luz adroitly unearths the nature of the Mamluk urban in addition to quite a few points of urbanism within the quarter, setting up the pre-modern urban of the center East as a legitimate and necessary lens during which to check a number of issues equivalent to structure, artwork background, background, and politics of the outfitted setting. As a part of this strategy, Luz considers the strategies wherein Mamluk discourses of urbanism have been conceptualized after which inscribed within the city atmosphere as concrete expressions of architectural layout, spatial making plans, and public memorialization.
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Conder, and H. H. Kitchener, Survey of Western Palestine (London, 1881), 1: 256. Livre de Jean d’Iblin, 419; cited in Razi, “The Principality of the Galilee,” 118, n. 269. Na¯sir al-Dı¯n qAbd al-Rahma¯n ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Fura¯t, Ta’rı¯ kh al-Duwal wa’l Mulu¯k _ _ _ Q. Zurayk) (Beirut, 7 (ed. 1942), 122. qIzz al-Dı¯n Muhammad ibn qAlı¯ Ibn Shadda¯d al-Halabı¯, Ta’rı¯ kh al-Malik al-za¯hir (Beirut, _ _ _ 1403/1983), 353. 36 Introduction there are almost no clues as to the Christian neighborhood’s layout, location, or physical characteristics.
Surely, contemporary cities are gargantuan entities, and their size and density indeed differentiate them from nonurban phenomena. But, be that as it may, these characteristics are not so easily discerned in cities prior to the modern era or, better yet, prior to the Industrial Revolution. The things that separate the city from other social structures and transform it into such a spellbinding human accomplishment have not changed in essence since it first emerged on the world stage: its complexity, diversity, specialists, literacy, hierarchy, social stratification, and nonagrarian-based economic infrastructure are but the main issues that come to mind.
The decay of the city during the ninth to eleventh centuries may be seen in various aspects, but the most obvious one is the construction of the southern wall of the city in a new location. 28 The religious status of Jerusalem and its holy Islamic sites was not a mitigating factor, and the city experienced an urban decline for the better part of the Early Islamic period. The conquest of the city by the Crusaders on July 15, 1099, marked a turning point in its urban history. From a provincial town bereft of any political significance, Jerusalem suddenly became the capital of a kingdom.