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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
Fax: (401) 863-9423
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Topics/Themes:
• Quseir al-Qadim
• Sinai ports
• Piracy
• Egypt and East Africa
• Portuguese and the portend of a new rival
Readings:
• Insoll, T. (2003). The archaeology of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. (Selections from Ch. 2 and 4)
• Guo, L. (2004). Commerce, culture, and community in a Red Sea port in the thirteenth century: the Arabic documents from Quseir. Leiden: Brill. (Ch. 2. “The Red Sea Commerce at Quseir”)
• 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)
• LeQuesne, C. 2004. "Quseir Fort and the archaeology of the Hajj" in Trade and travel in the Red Sea Region: proceedings of Red Sea project I. Edited by P. Lunde and A. Porter. Oxford: Archaeopress.