Fusṭāṭ Expedition: Preliminary Report 1965: Part II

Scanlon, George T.

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“…The remains of this water system suggested the existence of waterworks in the main districts of al-Fustat, which was not known from historical sources. Waterworks were also found by the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) mission at Istabl Antar, on the eastern edge of al-Fustat (Gayraud 1986(Gayraud , 1987(Gayraud , 1993(Gayraud , 1994(Gayraud , 1995a(Gayraud , 1995b; for other excavations in al-Fustat, see Bahgat & Gabriel 1921;Scanlon 1965Scanlon , 1966Scanlon , 1967Scanlon , 1974aScanlon , 1974bScanlon , 1976Scanlon , 1981aScanlon , 1981bScanlon , 1982.…”

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Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast

Kawatoko¹

2005

Antiquity

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We are privileged to offer a summary of the massive campaign of excavation and survey conducted by the author and his team from Japan in northern Egypt and the neighbouring coast of Sinai. Over the last few years they have excavated a large sector of al-Fustat (the early Islamic settlement on the outskirts of modern Cairo), mapped the early Christian monastery at Wadi al-Tur (sixth-twelfth century AD), recorded early Islamic rock inscriptions on Mt Naqus eighthtwentieth century AD), mapped the port and mosque at Raya (originating in the sixth-twelfth or thirteenth century AD) and investigated on a large scale the fourteenth-twentieth-century sequence at al-Kilani (al-Tur). Among the objects unearthed at al-Kilani were 4000 fragments of manuscripts. The work is throwing new light on early Islam, its development of social and commercial networks, and its relation with Christian, Coptic and Byzantine cultures.

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“…Since 1978 the expedition team of Waseda University (later joined with the Idemitsu Museum of Arts and the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan) has conducted eight seasons of excavation at al-Fustat (Sakurai & Kawatoko 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987Kawatoko 1983bKawatoko , 1987Sakurai & Kawatoko (ed.) 1992).…”

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Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast

Kawatoko¹

2005

Antiquity

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Archeology in a Medieval City of Islam

Redman¹

1980

Middle East Stud. Assoc. Bull.

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The systematic study of historic civilizations is now attracting the attention of a growing number of anthropologically trained archeologists. The objectives of these investigators are not simply to repeat or to verify what is already known from textual evidence, but to extend the scope and fullness of our understanding of these important cultures (Moore, ed., 1974; Sabloff & Lamberg-Karlovsky, eds., 1975; Redman et al. ed., 1978). The study of historic civilizations offers a series of unique opportunities that equal and sometimes surpass those provided by the more commonly studied prehistoric cultures. First, the existence of historical documentation often facilitates the formulation of absolute chronologies for excavated material. By correlating archeological episodes with historically dated events, it is frequently possible even to assign lengths of duration to particular occupations. Second, the architectural and artifactual remains of historic civilizations are usually abundant in quantity and more readily identifiable than prehistoric material. Since many of the excavated tools, decorative objects and buildings are known from texts, art work or their continued use in recent times, identification and functional interpretation are more reliable, having been made by homology rather than by analogy. Third, and finally, the societal organization and processual relationships of historic civilizations are of considerable interest to anthropologists. Relatively sophisticated behavioral questions can be addressed because of the above two interpretive advantages and the fact that the historic record often provides general insights into the political and economic patterns of the era that aid in model building.

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Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt

Gascoigne,

Sheehan

2024

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Fusṭāṭ Expedition: Preliminary Report 1965: Part II

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Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast

Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast

Archeology in a Medieval City of Islam

Sherds and the City: Pottery Production, Society, and the Changing Urban Fabric of Fustat, Egypt

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