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Editors’ Introduction

Walker, B; Insoll, T; Fenwick, C; (2021) Editors’ Introduction. In: Walker, B and Insoll, T and Fenwick, C, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

The following Foreword, written by the three co-editors of this Handbook, situates the field of Islamic archaeology as it is practiced today in the larger study of the Islamic world. It also positions this Handbook in a growing body of scholarship on the archaeology of Islam. The special challenges faced by a newly emerging field, and one that is concerned with relatively recent historical periods and is quite literally global in scale, is presented in honest debate. The relationships of Islamic archaeology with Islamic art history and Islamic history are problematized, and the conceptual problems of Islamization and periodization explicated are and explored. The Foreword closes with a justification for the global scale of this Handbook, which determines its geographical organization.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Editors’ Introduction
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199987870.013.34
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199987870.013...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Islamic world, Islamic art, historical archaeology, Islamization, periodization
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10086141
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