Bosworth Edmund C. (ed.), Historic Cities of the Islamic World, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2007, 583 p., 32 pages of maps and illustrations

In Historic Cities of the Islamic World, the reputed specialist of Islamic history, C.E. Bosworth, has collected the entries dealing with the most important urban formations in the history of Islamic culture that were published in the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. The book thus disp...

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In:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/remmm,
Main Author: Gonzalez, Valérie
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Français
Published: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 2010
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:In Historic Cities of the Islamic World, the reputed specialist of Islamic history, C.E. Bosworth, has collected the entries dealing with the most important urban formations in the history of Islamic culture that were published in the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. The book thus displays the same pragmatic organization of the Encyclopaedia in which each city under observation is to be found following the alphabetical order. But unlike the latter, this volume lists the differen...