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Bibliography
Useful historical atlases and guides to
the chronology of the Early Islamic 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.
Freeman-Grenville, W.
1993 Historical Atlas of the Middle East.
New York and London: Simon and Schuster.
The Arab communities of pre-Islamic
Arabia, Jordan, Palestine and Syria are discussed in:
Hoyland, R.
2001 Arabia and the Arabs from the
Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam. London and New York:
Routledge.
Schick, R.
1995 The Christian Communities of
Palestine from Byzantine to Islamic Rule. A Historical and
Archaeological Study. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early
Islam 2. Princeton NJ: Darwin Press 1995. Chapters I-III. For
the Early Islamic period, see chapters V-VI.
For a general survey of the history of
the Early Islamic period, see: Donner,
F.
1981 The Early Islamic Conquests.
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
Gabrieli, F.
1968 Muhammad and the Conquests of Islam,
trans. V. Luling and R. Linell. London and New York:
Wiedenfeld and Nicholson (reprinted 1977).
Kennedy, H.
1986 The Prophet and the Age of the
Caliphates. The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the
Eleventh Century. New York: Longman 1986.
For more specific historical information
on the Karak plateau, see:
Buhl, F.
1993 Mu’ta. Encyclopaedia of Islam.
New Edition 8: 756-57.
Johns, J.
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.
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archaeology 3, ed. E. Meyers. Oxford: Oxford University
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Sourdel, D.
1978 Karak. Encyclopaedia of Islam. New
Edition 4: 609.
Important archaeological surveys and
excavations of Early Islamic occupation on the Karak plateau
and southern Jordan include:
Brown, R.
1991 Ceramics from the Kerak Plateau.
Pp.232-246 in Archaeological Survey of the Kerak Plateau.
American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports
1, ed. J. M. Miller. Atlanta: Scholar’s Press.
McQuitty, A. and Falkner, R.
1993 The Faris project. Preliminary Report
on the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Seasons. Levant 25: 37-61.
Sauer, J.
1971 The Heshbon Pottery, 1971.
Berriens Springs Mi.: Andrews University Press.
Walmsley, A., Karsgaard, K. and Grey, T.
1999 Town and Village: Site Transformations
in Southern Jordan (the Gharandal Archaeological Project,
Second Report). Annual of the Department of Antiquities of
Jordan 43: 459-78.
Whitcomb, D.
1988 A Fatimid Residence at Aqaba, Jordan.
Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 32:
207-24. 2000 Hesban, Amman, and Abbasid
Archaeology in Jordan. Pp.505-15 in The Archaeology of
Jordan and Beyond. Essays in Honor of James A. Sauer. Studies
in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, eds L.
Stager, J. Greene and M Coogan. Winona Lake In.: Eisenbrauns
2000.
For some details concerning Early
Islamic Jordan, see:
For the material culture of the Early
Islamic period, see:
For reports on the important Early
Islamic sites of Gharandal and `Aqaba/Ayla:
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