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Published on the occasion of the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, Ancient and Medieval Syria Illustrated was commissioned by the High Commissioner of France to the Levant Henri Ponsot with the aim of promoting the archaeological riches of the region, then under French mandate. The work, produced jointly by Paul Deschamps, director of the Museum of Comparative Sculpture at the Trocadero, Henri Seyrig, Director of the Antiquities Service in Syria and Lebanon and René Dussaud, contains an album of 160 plates, each provided with a notice. Introduced by a succinct but valuable summary of the history of Syria from the earliest times to the end of Mamluk rule, it reviews an impressive number of localities and civilizations. From the Phoenician temples of Byblos to the palace of Beit ed-din via the sanctuary of Bel in Palmyra, the great mosque of Aleppo or the Crac des Chevaliers, this book is a complete panorama of the Syrian and Lebanese heritage that this book, thanks to to magnificent period photographs, offers its reader.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Syria --- Antiquities. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Syrie antique --- Syrie médiévale --- Baalbeck --- Palmyre --- Alep --- Damas --- Neirab --- Sidon
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Written by J. Sauvaget and M. Écochard, the descriptions and illustrations contained in this book are intended to be representative of the art of Damascus in the Ayyubid period in the broad sense.There are a series of tombs (Ṣafwat al-Molk, Farroukh-Châh, Bahrâm-Châh, Miṯqâl), madrasas (Djahârkasiya, Raiḥâniya, ‛Aḏrawiya,‛ Izziya hors-les-murs, ‛Âdiliya, Mâridâni hors-les-murs,‛ Âdiliya- the-walls), cenotaphs (Fâṭima, Abân, Badr, the emir Altountâch, Sokaina, Bilâl), as well as several epitaphs, the three Ayyubid baths of Damascus and dar al-Ḥadith of Nour ad-Din.The editor has also found it useful to include a bibliography of epigraphic and archaeological publications that have addressed the issue.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Damascus (Syria) --- Antiquities. --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria) --- architecture traditionnelle --- Ayyoubide (dynastie) --- Syrie médiévale --- monuments --- Damas --- madrasa
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Publié en 1952, cet ouvrage propose une traduction annotée d’un fragment de l’Histoire de Damas, recueil de chroniques rédigées par Ibn al-Qalânisî. Poète et politicien arabe ayant occupé de hautes responsabilités, ce dernier a, de 1056 à 1160, été un témoin privilégié des événements qui ont frappé l’ancienne capitale omeyyade. Pour composer ce livre, le traducteur Roger Le Tourneau a choisi de se concentrer sur une période légèrement plus courte allant de la prise de la ville par les Turcs en 1075 à sa conquête par Nour al-Dîn en 1154. Cette période est une période de transition pour Damas, mais d’une singulière importance, car des forces considérables s’y affrontent. Trois forces principales sont d’abord en jeu : celle des Turcs seldjoukides de Bagdad et d’Orient, celle des Fatimides d’Égypte et celle des Croisés, à propos desquels al-Qalânisî fournit de nombreux renseignements, tant sur leur arrivée et leur établissement que sur la politique générale des musulmans à leur égard. Ensuite, une quatrième force, celle de la dynastie turque des Zengides, émerge. Elle aura finalement raison de Damas et lui redonnera le lustre qu’elle avait perdu au cours des décennies précédentes. Aristocrate détestant les mouvements et les violences populaires, pieux musulman voyant avant tout les Francs comme des ennemis de sa religion, Ibn al-Qalânisî est bien sûr un acteur historique dont la subjectivité ne manque pas, parfois, de transparaître. Mais son souci d’objectivité et d’exactitude dans le récit des faits font néanmoins de ses chroniques une source éminemment précieuse pour qui souhaite se plonger dans la complexité des jeux de pouvoir dans le Proche-Orient des XIe et XIIe siècles.
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René Dussaud's Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria, published in 1927 and long out of print, is still considered a reference work, and as René Dussaud's best contribution to archaeological and historical studies on Syria. All researchers who have studied the ancient history of Syria have necessarily resorted to this classic, still serving as a reference to identify the toponyms of Syria and Lebanon. The study is based on the use of more than 300 sources, relying in particular on the reference works in geography available at the time of the writing of the book. For each region, from Phenicia to Palmyrene, the author gives an extremely erudite description by identifying each toponym found in ancient and medieval sources and placed in a historical context: it is therefore indeed a true historical topography.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Syria --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Syrie antique --- Syrie médiévale --- topographie historique --- Antiquité orientale
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René Dussaud's Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Syria, published in 1927 and long out of print, is still considered a reference work, and as René Dussaud's best contribution to archaeological and historical studies on Syria. All researchers who have studied the ancient history of Syria have necessarily resorted to this classic, still serving as a reference to identify the toponyms of Syria and Lebanon. The study is based on the use of more than 300 sources, relying in particular on the reference works in geography available at the time of the writing of the book. For each region, from Phenicia to Palmyrene, the author gives an extremely erudite description by identifying each toponym found in ancient and medieval sources and placed in a historical context: it is therefore indeed a true historical topography.
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Stretching on either side of the road leading to the regions south of Damascus, the suburb of Mīdān owes its development in large part to the passage of the caravan of pilgrimages to the Holy Places of La Mekke and Medina and to the marketing of cereals from Ḥawrān and Biqā '. From the Mamluk era, several urban cores appeared in this peripheral space of Damascus; their growth, as well as the creation of housing estates and the multiplication of wheat warehouses along the road will participate, in the Ottoman era, in the constitution of the urban fabric of a large suburb. Through the chronicles, this one appears as the den of the local janissaries who, throughout this period, will oppose, in numerous and bloody conflicts, the imperial janissaries, installed in the citadel and the districts which are close to it . Analysis of the documents kept in the archives of the city's courts (acts of inheritance, real estate transactions, acts of purchase and rental in rural areas, acknowledgments of debts, etc.) completes the information drawn from these chronicles; it makes it possible to apprehend the various social groups which make up the population of this suburb and to locate them in the whole of Damascene society.
Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) --- -Damascus (Syria) --- -Maydan (Damascus, Syria) --- -Maydān (Damascus, Syria) --- Damascus (Syria) --- Mīdān (Damascus, Syria) --- Dimashq (Syria) --- Dameśeḳ (Syria) --- Damascus --- Damas (Syria) --- Şam (Syria) --- History --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) - History - 18th century --- Maydān (Damascus, Syria) - History - 19th century --- Damascus (Syria) - History - 18th century --- Damascus (Syria) - History - 19th century --- espace urbain --- Syrie --- Empire ottoman --- Syrie médiévale --- faubourg --- Damas
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