The balsam of Matarea was a famous panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the antique and medieval periods. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Milwright reconstructs the fascinating cultural history of the balsam tree: from Jer…
The balsam of Matarea was a famous panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the antique and medieval periods. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Milwright reconstructs the fascinating cultural history of the balsam tree: from Jer…
The balsam of Matarea was a famous panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the antique and medieval periods. Using written sources, visual data and archaeological material, Milwright reconstructs the fascinating cultural history of the balsam tree: from Jer…
Al-Aqṣā mosque (al-masjid al-Aqṣā) is located on the western side of the south end of al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem. In its present form the hypostyle mosque comprises a prayer hall with seven aisles arranged perpendicular to the qibla wall (the south wall) and a portico to th…
The Jordanian town of Karak is located at the centre of a fertile plateau (Arḍ al-Karak) east of the Dead Sea, approximately 170 kilometres south of Amman. Karak is now the administrative capital of a governorate (liwāʾ). The old town and the castle are surrounded by steep valle…
Iraq is the site of major contributions to the evolution of Islamic art and architecture , especially in the period between the second/eighth and seventh/thirteenth centuries. In the history of Islamic archaeology , the city of Sāmarrāʾ occupies a significant position, both for …
Ḥiṣn al-Akrād (“Fortress of the Kurds”), also known in Arabic as Qalʿat al-Ḥuṣn (or al-Ḥiṣn, the modern Arabic name meaning literally “Castle of the Fortress”) and Ḥiṣn al-Firās (or al-Fursān, “Fortress of the Knights”), is a castle located in Syria that was principally construc…
The fortress is a common form of defensive building across the Islamic world. These military structures are found in rural areas and may be distinguished from urban defensive features (including citadels that acted as centres of government, market structures, or khān s, and fort…
