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Le Proche-Orient De Justinien Aux Abbassides Le Proche-Orient De Justinien Peuplement Et Dynamiques Spatiales Aux Abbassides BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L'ANTIQUITE TARDIVE 19 BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L'ANTIQUITE TARDIVE 19 LE PROCHE-ORIENT DE JUSTINIEN AUX ABBASSIDES LE PROCHE-ORIENT DE JUSTINIEN PEUPLEMENT ET DYNAMIQUES SPATIALES AUX ABBASSIDES PEUPLEMENT ET DYNAMIQUES SPATIALES Edite par A. Borrut, M. Debie, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, J.-P. Sodini Edite par A. Borrut, M Debie, A. Papaconstantinou, D. 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A.Walmsley, Walmsley,dans dansce cevolume, volume, p.p.277, 277, figurefigure 77 ©©2011, 2011,Brepols BrepolsPublishers Publishersn.v., n.v.,Turnhout, Tumhout,Belgium Belgium AllAllrights rightsreserved. reserved.No Nopart partof ofthis thispublication publicationmay maybe bereproduced, reproduced, storedstored inina aretrieval retrieval system,System, orortransmitted, transmitted,in inany any formform oror byby anyany means,means,electronic, electronic,mechanical, mechanical,photocopying, photocopying,recording, recording, ororotherwise, otherwise, withoutwithoutthe theprior priorpermission permissionof ofthe thepublisher. publisher. --ISBN: ISBN :978-2-503-53572-2 978-2-503-53572-2 --D/2011/0095/14D/201l/0095/1455 --Printed Printedin inED EUon onacid-free acid-freepaper paper SecretariatSecretariatde deredaction: redaction : EmmanuelleEmmanuelleCAPET CAPET MiseMiseen enpage pageet etinfographie infographie :: FabienFabienTESSIER TESSIER http://www.tilcara.euhttp://www.tilcara.eu SOMMAIRE PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................SOMMAlRE . IX Hugh KENNEDY INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... XI PREFACE IX Michael DECKER Settlement and Agriculture in the Levant, ö^-S* Centuries ............................................................................... l Hugh KENNEDY INTRODUCTION. ......................................................................................................................................... XI Pierre-Louis GATIER Inscriptions grecques, mosaiques et eglises des debuts de l'epoque islamique au Proche-Orient (vi^-viif siecles) Michael DECKER Settlement and Agriculture in the Levant, 6th_8 th Centuries . Alastair NORTHEDGE Pierre-LouisSasanian and AbbasiGATIERd Royal Settlement at Samarra: Aspects of Continuity and Change ........................................ 29 Inscriptions grecques, mosai'ques et eglises des debuts de l'epoque islamique au Proche-Orient (VUe-vIII" siecles) 7 Stefan HEIDEMANN The Agricultural Hinterland of Baghdäd, al-Raqqa and Sämarrä' : Settlement Patterns in the Diyär Mudar ................ 43 Alastair NORTHEDGE Sasanian and Abbasid Royal Settlement at Samarra: Aspects ofContinuity and Change................. 29 Gunnar BRANDS Old and New Order - City and Territorium of Rusäfa in Late Antiquity and Early Islam ........................................ 59 Stefan HEIDEMANN The Agricultural Hinterland ofBaghdad, al-Raqqa and Samarra': Settlement Patterns in the Diyar Muc,iar 43 Bernard GEYER, Marie-Odile ROUSSET Determinants geoarcheologiques du peuplement rural dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord aux vne-ixe siecles ..... 77 Gunnar BRANDS Old and New Order - City and Territorium of Ru~afa in Late Antiquity and Early Islam........................................ 59 Marlia MUNDELL MANGO Byzantine Settlement Expansion in Norm Central Syria: the Case of Androna/Andarin ......................................... 93 Bernard GEYER, Marie-Odile ROUSSET Determinants geoarcheologiques du peuplement rural dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord aux VUe_IXe siecles ..... 77 Jean-Pierre SODINI, Cecile MORRISSON Niveaux d'occupation et de frequehtation d'un site de pelerinage : Saint-Symeon des Byzantins aux califes ............. 123 Marlia MUNDELL MANGO Byzantine Settlement Expansion in North Central Syria: the Case ofAndrona!Andarin 93 Nancy KHALEK Patterns of Habitation in Post-Conquest Damascus and its Hinterland ................................................................ 139 Jean-Pierre SODlNI, Cecile MORRISSON Niveaux d'occupation et de frequehtation d'un site de pelerinage : Saint-Symeon des Byzantins aux califes... 123 Yumna MASARWA Transforming the Mediterranean from a Highway into a Frontier: Nancy KHALEK The Coastal Cities of Palestine during the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods ................................................... 149 Patterns ofHabitation in Post-Conquest Damascus and its Hinterland................................................................ 139 Kenneth G. HOLUM Yumna MASARWA Caesarea in Palestine: Shaping the Early Islamic Town ................................................................................... 1 69 Transforming the Mediterranean from a Highway into a Frontier: The Coastal Cities ofPalestine during the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods.................. 149 Rene ELTER, Ayman HASSOUNE Un exemple de continuite entre les iv6 et vme siecles : le cas du monastere de Saint-Hilarion ä Teil Umm el-'Amr ...... 187 Kenneth G. HOLUM Caesarea in Palestine: Shaping the Early Islamic Town.. .. 169 Joseph PATRICK The Impact of the Muslim Conquest on Monasticism in the Desert of Jerusalem ................................................. 205 Rene ELTER, Ayman HASSOUNE UnRoberexemplet HOYLANde continuiteD entre les lye et VIlle siecles : Ie cas du monastere de Saint-Hilarion aTell Umm e1- 'Amr ...... 187 The Byzantine/Early Islamic Site of Khirbat Shuwayka in Palestine (The Monastery of the Prophet Samuel?) .......... 219 Joseph PATRICH The Impact ofthe Muslim Conquest on Monasticism in the Desert ofJerusalem.... 205 Anne MICHEL Le devenir des lieux de culte chretiens sur le territoire Jordanien entre le vne et le ixe siecle : un etat de la question ..... 233 Robert HOYLAND The Byzantine/Early Islamic Site ofKhirbat Shuwayka in Palestine (The Monastery ofthe Prophet Samuel?) 219 Anne MICHEL Le devenir des heux de culte chretiens sur Ie territoire jordanien entre Ie VIle et Ie IXe siecle : un etat de la question..... 233 AlanAlan WALMSLEYWALMSLEY TrendsTrendsin inthe theUrban UrbanHistory Historyof ofEast Easteemm PalaestinaPalaestina SecundaSecunda duringduringthe theLate LateAntique Antique- - EarlyEarly IslamicIslamicTransition................ 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Situe dans la partie occidentale de la vallee de l 'Euphrate, ilfait partie de la Jazira, en Mesopotamie du Nord. II mettait en relation la Syrie, l 'Asie Mineure, le Caucase, l 'Iraq et la peninsule Arabique. Les califes Marwän II et Harun al-Rashld y etablirent des residences imperiales. Cette etude examine le developpement economique de la region durant laperiode byzantinejusqu 'a son declin au Jf siede. Resume: Le Diyiir Mw;lar, - aujourd'hui un coin recule de la Republique arabe syrienne -, fut autrefois une region clef Elle met l'accent sur les sites ruraux a l'epoque des grandes fondations imperiales aux vuf et Df siecles (Baghdäd, des Empires byzantin
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