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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:
• Settlement patterns in the Delta
• Siwa/Shali – an oasis case study
• Upper Egypt and the continuity of the Coptic village • the iqta‘ system
Readings:
• Wilson, P. and D. Grigoropoulos (2009). The West Nile Delta Regional Survey, Beheira and Kafr el-Sheikh provinces. London, Egypt Exploration Society. This is an archaeological gazetteer of sites and data. I want you to look through it in the two to three hours that you have it for reserve and see what you can learn from this particular form of presenting the archaeology of Egypt. What knowledge do you come away with? What further work should be done? What questions can now be asked as a result of this work?
• Sato, T. (1997). State and rural society in medieval Islam : sultans, muqta‘s, and fallahun. Leiden ; New York, E.J. Brill. (Ch. 8 “Egyptian rural society under the iqta‘ system” )
• Ghosh, A. 1994. In an antique land. New York: Vintage Books. (novel)