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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: (401) 863-3188
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Topics/Themes:
• The Fatimids and their rival caliphate
• Commerce, luxury and the marketplace
• Monumental architecture – Egypt gets its palace
Readings:
• Saunders, Paula. 1994. Ritual, Politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo. SUNY Press. (Ch 3 “The Ritual City,” pp39-82)
• Goitein, S. D. (1967). A Mediterranean society : the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. Berkeley, University of California Press. (Sections)