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The Karak Plateau in the
Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods

Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP

Marcus Milwright

Bibliography

Useful historical atlases and guides to the chronology of the Ayyubid-Mamluk period include:

Bacharach, J.

1974 Near East Studies Handbook, 570-1974. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press.

Barraclough, G.

1986 Times Atlas of World History. Revised edition. London: Times Books.

Brice, W.

1981 An Historical Atlas of Islam. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Riley-Smith, J.

1991 Atlas of the Crusades. London: Times Books.

General histories of the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods:

Ehrenkreutz, A.

1972 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 1137-1193. Albany NY: State University of New York Press.

Holt, P., Lambton, A. and Lewis, B.

1970 eds, The Cambridge History of Islam. Vol. I: The Central Islamic Lands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1970: 201-230.

Humphreys, R.

1977 From Saladin to the Mongols. The Ayyubids of Damascus, 1193-1260. Albany NY: State University of New York Press.

Irwin, I.

1986 The Middle East in the Middle Ages. The Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250-1382. Carbondale Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press.

Wolff, R. and Hazard, H.

1962 eds, The History of the Crusades. Vol. II: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: chapters XX-XXII.

For the Mongol invasion of Syria, Jordan and Palestine, see:

Amitai-Preiss, R.

1995 Mongols and Mamlūks: the Mamlūk-Īlkhānid War, 1260-1281. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Morgan, D.

1986 The Mongols. The Peoples of Europe.  Oxford and Cambridge Ma.: Blackwell Publishers: Chapter 6.

The Black Death is discussed in detail in:

Dols, M.

1977 The Black Death in the Middle East. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

For studies of the Karak plateau and southern Jordan in the Ayyubid-Mamluk period, see:

Bakhit, M. A.

1982 Jordan in Perspective: The Mamluk-Ottoman Period. Pp.361-62 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan I, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman.

1997 Shawbak. Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition 9: 373-74.

Brown, R.

1988 Late Islamic Shobak: A Summary Report of the 1986 Excavations. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 32: 225-245.

1989 Excavations in the Fourteenth-Century Mamluk Palace at Kerak. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 33: 287-304.

Johns, J.

1992 Islamic Settlement on Ard% al-Karak. Pp.363-68 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan IV, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities.

1995 The Longue Durée: State and Settlement Strategies in Southern Transjordan across the Islamic Centuries. Pp.1-31 in Village, Steppe and State. The Social Origins of Modern Jordan, eds E. Rogan and T. Tell. London and New York: British Academic Press.

1996 Karak. Pp.280-83 in Encyclopaedia of Near Eastern archaeology, vol.3, ed. E. Meyers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McQuitty, A. and Falkner, R.

1993 The Faris Project: Preliminary Report on the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Season. Levant 25: 37-61.

McQuitty, A., Sarley-Pontin, M., Khoury, M., Charles, M. and Hoppe, C.

2000 Mamluk Khirbat Faris. Aram 9-10 (1997-98): 181-226.

Al-Majali, R. and Mas@ad, A. R.

1987 Trade and Trade Routes in the Mamluk Era (A.D. 1250-1516). Pp.311-16 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan III, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.

Miller, J. M.

1991 ed., Archaeological Survey of the Kerak Plateau. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports, ed. J. M. Miller. Atlanta: Scholar’s Press: 1-22.

Sourdel, D.

1978 Karak. Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition 4: 609.

Zayadine, F.

1985 Caravan Routes between Egypt and Nabataea and the Voyage of Sultan Baibars to Petra in 1276 A.D. Pp.159-74 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan II, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan..

For further illustrations of Karak, see:

For the agriculture and industries of Ayyubid-Mamluk Jordan, see:

Ashtor, E.

1981 Levantine Sugar Industry in the Later Middle Ages: A Case of Technological Decline. Pp.91-132 in The Islamic Middle East, 700-1900: Studies in Economic and Social History, Princeton Studies in the Near East, ed. A. Udovitch. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jones, R., Tompsett, G., Politis, K. and Photos-Jones, E.

2000 The Tawāhīn as-Sukkar and Khirbat ash-Shaykh `Isa Project. Phase I: The Surveys. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 34: 523-34.

Lancaster, W. and Lancaster, F.

1995 Land Use and Population in the Area North of Karak. Levant 27: 103-124.

McQuitty, A.

1995 Watermills in Jordan: Technology, Typology, Dating and Development. Pp.745-51 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan V, ed. A. Hadidi. Amman: Department of Antiquities of Jordan.
 

 

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