Early Islamic Syria

Alan Walmsley is Associate Professor, Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked in the Middle East for over 25 years, directing four major field projects.

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Defining Islamic archaeology in Syria-Palestine 2. After Justinian, 565-635 CE 3. Material culture and society 4. Sites and settlement processes 5. Life 6. Prospects: ongoing debates in Islamic archaeologyBrief chronology of early Islamic Arabia andSyria-Palestine Glossary BibliographyIndex