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Subject(s)

• Aleppo (Syria)—History [Browse]

Series

• Cities of the Ancient World [More in this series]
• Cities of the ancient world

Summary note

Aleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life - in particular an active tradition suq, which has a continuous tradtition going back centuries. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently discovered remains of a Bronze/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a 'high place' in the Canaanite tradition. In this volume Ross Burns explores Aleppo's rich history from its earliest times through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of the fascinating city, accessible both to scholarly readers and to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city's past.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Contents

• Aleppo; Cities of the Ancient World; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Setting the scene - Bronze and Iron Ages; Environment; A high place; Bronze Age (c.3600-c.1200 BC); The Storm God; Transition to the Iron Age (c.1200-900 BC); Neo-Assyrian dominance (883-612 BC); Neo-Babylonian and Persian rule (612-333 BC); Alexander (333-323 BC); 2 Greek and Roman Aleppo; Seleucus' tetrapolis; Hellenistic Aleppo (Beroia); The Syrian Goddess; Collapse (c.100-65 BC); Enter Rome (64 BC); Wider challenges; From pagan to Christian - the Byzantine transition
• On to JerusalemThe Antioch/Aleppo Front 1098-1120; 7 Zengid Aleppo (1127-74); Zengids; The ascent of Nur al-Din Zengi (r.1146-74); Building on message; Into Egypt; 8 Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1260); Saladin extends his rule; Al-Zahir Ghazi (r.1186-1216); The northern front after 1188, trade; Ayyubid building program - the 'Chosen Pearls'; Ayyubid stability; Fostering piety; A new axis; 9 A wider world opens - Aleppo under the Mamluks (1260-1516); Mongols (1258-60); The Bahri Mamluks (1260-1382); Building the Mamluk world; Burji Mamluks (1382-1516)
• 10 The first Ottoman centuries (1516-1750)Planting the Ottoman imperium; Faith and trade; An Ottoman 'image'; City within a city - al-Medina; City administrative structures; Strangers in the city; Beyond the walls; The Hajj; Aleppo's decline; Inquiring minds; End of the silk route; 11 Modernising Aleppo (1750-2000); Waning of authority; Return to an 'imperial' style; Disintegration and invasion; A 'reordering' (Tanzimat); Arabs in the late Ottoman world; Reign of Abdul Hamid (1876-1909); End of the House of Osman 1909-20; 1915, collapse of Ottomanism by consensus; New frontiers
• A mandate for confusion (1920-46)Postscript; Boxed in; The Baathist 'Revolution'; Rescuing ancient Aleppo; Town planning; 2011; A war for (or against?) Aleppo; Hussein's lost child; A confected Doomsday; Appendix - Maps of Aleppo; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

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ISBN

• 1-315-54407-5
• 1-134-84401-8
• 1-134-84408-5

OCLC

959238162

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315544076

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