Ur

The traditional scholarship on Mamluk architecture has concentrated most heavily in the matter of description of specific monuments--the approach of Briggs and Creswell, amongst others. The strength of this approach is in its archaeological documentation of the specifics of each…

The raison d'etre of this dissertation is the nebulous nature of Muslim public opinion with regard to the procedures of conducting state affairs and transfer of political power. Qur'an exhorts Muslims to manage their affairs, both private and public, through Shura (mutual consul…

This dissertation investigates one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century - the jewelry belonging to a female named Pu-abi buried in the so-called Royal Cemetery at the site of Ur in southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq. The mid-third millennium B.C. a…