Research Catalog

Title

The medieval and Ottoman hajj route in Jordan : an archaeological and historical study / Andrew Petersen ; with contributions by Michael Diboll [and others].

Author

Petersen, Andrew.

Publication

Oxford ; Oakville, Ct. : Oxbow Books ; [London] : Council for British Research in the Levant, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Diboll, Michael.
• Council for British Research in the Levant.

Description

xii, 240 p. : ill., maps; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Levant supplementary series ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Levant supplementary series ; v. 12.

Subject

• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Jordan > History
• Fortification > Jordan > History
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Jordan
• Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Fortification
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
• Haddsch
• Wallfahrtsweg
• Ausgrabung
• Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages > Saudi Arabia > Mecca
• Fortification > Jordan
• Jordan > Antiquities
• Jordan
• Jordanien
• Syrien
• Saudi-Arabien

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Principal written sources -- The medieval hajj route through Syria and Jordan -- Early Ottoman Arabia and the Syrian hajj route -- The Ottoman hajj route : motivation and ideology -- Travelling on the Darb al-Hajj -- Ottoman fortification in Palestine and Transjordan -- The hajj route in Syria -- Catalogue of hajj forts in Jordan -- Catalogue of forts in Saudi Arabia -- Arabic and Turkish inscriptions on the Darb al-Hajj -- Excavations at Qalat Unaiza -- Ceramics from at Qalat Unaiza and other hajj forts in Jordan -- Finds from Qalat Unaiza and other Ottoman forts on the Darb al-Hajj.

ISBN

• 9781842175026
• 1842175025

LCCN

2012012271

OCLC

• ocn785786645
• 785786645
• SCSB-1642762

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library