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1 online resource (xii, 270 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139151054
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9781107688735
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9781107023352
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1283574977
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9781139551076
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As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.
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Cover; THE COLLAPSE OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps and figures; MAPS; FIGURES; Tables; Acknowledgments; PART ONE: The collapse of the eastern Mediterranean; CHAPTER ONE: Presenting the events; A WAVE OF NOMADIZATION AND DISLOCATION; COLLAPSE OF BUREAUCRACIES; THE CREATION OF NOMADIC STATEHOODS; THE DECLINE OF URBAN CULTURE; DESERTION OF MARGINAL AGRICULTURAL PROVINCES; DECLINE OF CULTURES; MINORITIES AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE LEVANT; CHAPTER TWO: Deconstructing a 'collapse'; 'OVERSHOOT AND COLLAPSE' THEORY VERSUS 'RESILIENCE' THEORY
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HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF A CLIMATIC DISASTERSPATIAL ANALYSIS OF A CLIMATIC DISASTER: DROUGHTS IN THE NILE VALLEY; EARLIER COLD SPELLS IN IRAN AND MESOPOTAMIA; DOMINO EFFECTS; CHAPTER THREE: 950-1027: an impending disaster; EGYPT: SEVEN BAD YEARS (963-9); CONSECUTIVE FAILURES OF THE NILE, 1004-9; COLD SPELLS IN BAGHDAD, 398/1007, AND IN SOUTHERN ITALY, 398/1007-402/1012 AND 1017; EGYPT IN THE MID 1020S; PART TWO: Regional domino effects in the eastern Mediterranean: 1027-60 AD ; CHAPTER FOUR: The collapse of Iran; THE CLIMATIC CRISIS OF 1024-71; THE COLLAPSE OF IRAN
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NOMADS ACQUIRE POLITICAL POWERCHAPTER FIVE: The fall of Baghdad; POLITICAL EVENTS AND CLIMATIC DISASTERS; THE CIVIL WAR (1055-60); NOMADIC STATEHOOD; CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRISIS; DESTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES AND ACADEMIES; THE 1060S: THE RECOVERY OF BAGHDAD; THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MADRASA (LAW COLLEGE); CHAPTER SIX: A crumbling empire: the Pechenegs and the decimation of Byzantium; THE END OF BYZANTINE DOMINION IN SOUTHERN ITALY; THE GREAT SCHISM OF 1054; RENEWED ATTACKS BY NOMADS; CHAPTER SEVEN: Egypt and its provinces, 1050s-1070s; 'THE GREAT CALAMITY'
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HE INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA BY THE BANUMACR HILAMACRL AND BANUMACR SULAYMNOMADIZATION IN PALESTINE AND NORTH AFRICA; PART THREE: Cities and minorities ; CHAPTER EIGHT: Jerusalem and the decline of Classical cities; THE DECLINE OF CLASSICAL URBANISM IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: THE PIRENNE THESIS; 'FROM POLIS TO MADINA' AND BEYOND; JERUSALEM DURING THE ELEVENTH CENTURY; PERIODS OF DEARTH; DELINEATING NEW WALLS; THE TYROPOEON VALLEY AND THE GATES OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT; DROUGHTS AND HUNGER DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY
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CHAPTER NINE: Water supply, declining cities and deserted villagesAQUEDUCTS AND CITIES; SPRINGS, PROVINCIAL CITIES AND HINTERLANDS: THE CASE OF JERUSALEM; CITIES IN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: AN ATTEMPT AT A SUMMARY; CHAPTER TEN: Food crises and accelerated Islamization; OUTBOUND EMIGRATIONS; INBOUND IMMIGRATION; FORCED CONVERSION AND DESECRATION OF SACRED PLACES; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Reflections ; CLIMATIC CRISES AND THE LONGUE DURÉE; THE REGIONAL AND THE GLOBAL; THE FATE OF CLASSICAL HERITAGE; EAST AND WEST; Index
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ISBN 9781107023352
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107023352
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
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General works
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139151054
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