‎Tomoko Morikawa (ed)‎
‎Cities through Time. Glimpses into Urbanity and Community in Mediaeval to Modern West Asia and Egypt‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 372, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:48 b/w, 35 col., 31 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503618555.‎

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‎Summary The first volume in a series dedicated to cities and urban processes in West Asia and Egypt, this collection of essays offers an exploration of West Asian history and society as seen through the lens of urbanization. Drawing together scholarship from historians, architectural historians, and archaeologists, the essays gathered here examine the development of cities and urban societies in the region from the Sasanian and early Islamic periods up to modern times. The up-to-date and advanced analyses presented within the volume explore the societies that inhabited these urban landscapes and shed light on noteworthy cities of West Asia and its surroundings, including Egypt, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Through this approach, the authors examine not just the shapes, formations, and characteristics of urban centres, but also the economic and social structures that developed within them and gave shape to their communities. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents List of Illustrations Part I: Emerging Cities in the Pre-modern Era 1. Foundation of Cities as Military Bases: The Scheme of City-Building in the Late Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods Manabu Kameya 2. States and Capitals in the Islamic East: Some Notes on Ghazna and F?r?zk?h Minoru Inaba 3. Unearthing the Urban Landscape of Mamluk Jerusalem: Methodology, Social, and Cultural Implications Nimrod Luz 4. From Village to a Provincial Capital: Bani Suef, an Ottoman Urban Centre in Early Modern Egypt Magdi Guirguis 5. Urban Evolution in Kurdistan during the Early Modern Era: Shift from Mountain Strongholds to Flatland Cities Akihiko Yamaguchi 6. In Search of the Words for 'City' in Pre-Islamic Iran Seiro Haruta Part II: Cross-Cultural Cities 7. Cities on the North-Eastern Fringes of the Sasanian Empire and Beyond Alisher Begmatov 8. The City of Rayy: Urbanisation, People, and Caravan Trading Post Rocco Rante 9. ?Aynt?b During the Mamluk Period: A City of Horizons Nobutaka Nakamachi 10. Crossroad City of Ganja: A Treasury of Peoples and Cultures Shinya Shionozaki and Gor Margaryan 11. Legacy of the Safavid Cosmopolitan Capital City: Traditional Crafts and Artisans in Isfahan Tomoko Morikawa Part III: Functions, Structures, and Landscapes of Cities 12. The City of Jundishapur: Formation and Transformation Yousef Moradi 13. From Caliphs to Sultans: The Urban Structure of Baghdad and its Evolution During the Early Abbasid, Buyid, and Seljuq Periods Vanessa Van Renterghem 14. Yerevan as a Boundary Stronghold Between Early Modern Empires Kristine Kostikyan 15. Reconsidering ??ras: The Structure, Neighbourhoods, and Streets of Early Nineteenth Century Cairo Naoko Fukami 16. Portraying the Urban Quarters of Tabriz in the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Household Structures and Social Backgrounds of the Population in an Iranian City Naofumi Abe Part IV: Urban Life in Cities 17. Urban Society and Development of Cairo with Focus on Construction and Maintenance of Water Facilities Takenori Yoshimura 18. Livestock Trade and Cities of Anatolia in the Late Ottoman Empire Yonca K ksal and Can Nacar 19. Tehran at the Transition from the Qajars to the Pahlavis: Ja?far Shahr? on Modernisation and the History of Everyday Life Anja Pistor-Hatam 20. An Overview of Internecine Muslim Urban Religious Violence in Medieval Islamic Cities in the Tenth through Twelfth Centuries D.G. Tor 21. Saints in the Timurid Herat: Their Influence on the Urban Development and Society Masaki Sugiyama 22. Masonic Lodges in Late Ottoman Beirut: Rise of the Urban Middle Class and its Civic Sociability Masato Tanaka‎