The Mediterranean littoral between the mountains of Cilicia and the Sinai peninsula represents the crossroads of the Eurasian/African "world island."
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The Levant: a fractured mosaic
2008, Markus Wiener Publishers, Markus Wiener
in English
- 3rd ed. (ubdated and expanded)
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
July 30, 2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
September 30, 2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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The Levant: a fractured mosaic
2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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- 2nd ed., with a new epilogue including recent changes in the Middle East.
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The Levant: a fractured mosaic : with a revised and updated epilogue
2005, Markus Wiener Publishers
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
February 2003, Markus Wiener Publishers
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The Levant: A Fractured Mosaic (Princeton Series on the Middle East)
July 2003, Markus Wiener Publishers
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The strategic geography
Of the Levant
Vulnerable frontiers
Strategic pivot
Internal fragmentation
Population growth, limited resources, compressed space
Panorama : from the Romans to the Ottomans
Rome, Islam, and Byzantium
The Roman Levant
Umayyads and 'Abbasids
The Byzantine-Fatimid standoff
Seljuk Turkish intervention
Conclusion
Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans
Crusaders and Muslims
Mamluk supremacy
The Ottoman Levant.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-214) and index.
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