R. M. Brown

This project centers on the city of Patna in northeastern India, today the capitol of the state of Bihar. Because of its status as a provincial center for British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Patna does not represent a major facet of the stu…

This is a study southern Levantine ceramic industries during the Crusader, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman periods (12th-20th centuries A.D.). Initial chapters review the environment of Palestine and Transjordan, and Late Islamic political and economic history. Settlement pattern d…