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The ebb and flow of the Ghūrid empire / David C. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, David C., author.
- Series:
- Adapa Monographs
- Adapa monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghurids.
- Hari Rud--Antiquities.
- Hari Rud.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Sydney University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "The iconic minaret of Jām stands in a remote mountain valley in central Afghanistan, the finest surviving monument of the enigmatic 12th-century Ghūrid dynasty. The rediscovery of the minaret half a century ago prompted renewed interest in the Ghūrids, and this has intensified since their summer capital at Jām became Afghanistan?s first World Heritage site in 2002. Two seasons of archaeological fieldwork at Jām, the detailed analysis of satellite images, and the innovative use of Google Earth as a cultural heritage management tool have resulted in a wealth of new information about known Ghūrid sites, and the identification of hundreds of previously undocumented archaeological sites across Afghanistan. Drawing inspiration from the Annales school and the concept of an 'archipelagic landscape', David Thomas uses these data to re-assess the Ghūrids, giving us a more nuanced understanding of this significant Early Islamic polity." -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Intro
- The ebb and flow of the Ghūrid empire
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Abstract in Dari
- خلاصه موضوع :
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Note on transliteration and dates
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The minaret of Jām
- The Ghūrids
- Ghūrid identities
- Previous research into the Ghūrids
- Satellite archaeology
- Empires, archipelagic landscapes, nomads and an Annales approach
- About the book
- The nomadic empire of the Ghūrids
- The nomad-urban continuum
- Pre-modern states
- The 'archaeology of empires'
- The Ghūrid way: neither urban nor nomad, but both
- The Ghūrid landscapes
- Early Islamic geographies
- Nineteenth-century travelogues and the Afghan Boundary Commissions
- Twentieth-century studies
- Geographic regions and Ghūrid centres
- The mountainous Ghūrid heartland
- Jām
- Bāmiyān
- Ghazna
- The Harāt-Farāh Lowlands
- Harāt
- The Turkestān Plains / steppe
- The Hilmand corridor and Sīstān Basin
- Lashkar-i Bāzār / Bust
- Southwestern Sandy Desert
- The Ghūrids' 'archipelagic landscape'
- The rise, expansion and demise of the Ghūrids under the Shansabānīd dynasty
- The rise and fall of the Ghaznawids (366-582 AH / 977-1186 CE)
- The rise of the Shansabānīds (543-612 AH / 1148-1215 CE)
- Ghūrid consolidation and expansion in Central Asia
- Ghūrid expansion into the northern Indian subcontinent
- The demise of the Shansabānīds
- Post-Ghūrid Afghanistan
- The Mongol campaigns in Afghanistan
- The impact of the Mongol invasions
- Post-Chingiz Afghanistan
- Assessing the Ghūrids' place in Early Islamic history
- The archaeological remains of the Ghūrids
- The Ghūrid heartland
- Site types and structural insights
- Decorative features
- Dating
- Function, spatial distribution and interpretation.
- Isolated monuments
- Major urban centres on the periphery of the Ghūrid heartland
- Qandahār
- Other contemporary sites
- Ghūrid curiosities and miscellanea
- Characterising the Ghūrid heartland's archaeology
- Exploring Jām
- Identification of Fīrūzkūh
- Accounts of Fīrūzkūh under the Ghūrids
- Discovering Jām
- Religious architecture
- Defensive structures
- Civic and elite architecture
- Domestic structures
- Outer urban areas
- Material culture
- Ceramics
- Elements identified in 2010
- Additional elements identified in 2010
- Other artefacts
- Ecofacts
- A capital fit for a sultan?
- Re-defining Jām: an archaeological eye in the sky
- Aerial archaeology in the Near East and Central Asia
- Aerial imagery of Afghanistan
- Aerial photographs
- Declassified reconnaissance satellite images
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission images
- Commercially available images
- Images available through Google Earth
- Re-defining the extent of Jām
- Re-populating Jām
- The ASAGE project
- The analysis of known Ghūrid sites
- Newly identified sites
- Arghandāb / Rīgistān study areas
- Ghūr and Harāt study areas
- Satellite image data: the missing parts of the Ghūrid puzzle?
- The Ghūrids: an unsustainable Early Islamic polity
- Ghūrid identity and mentalités
- The Ghūrids' isolation
- Jām / Fīrūzkūh: an atypical Early Islamic capital
- Living beyond their means: the unsustainable Ghūrid summer capital
- Borrowed ideologies and the demise of the Ghūrid polity
- Cultural heritage management at Jām and other Ghūrid sites
- Plates
- Appendix 1: Google Earth study areas
- Google Earth study areas 1-5 (see Figs 2:2, 6:15, Table 6:5)
- Google Earth study areas 6-8.
- Google Earth study areas 9-10 (see Fig. 2:14)
- Appendix 2: Less well-known ethnies and dynasties
- Qarā Khiṭāy
- Khalaj
- Khwārazm-Shāhs
- Mongols
- Oghuz or Ghuzz
- Saljūqids
- Works cited
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-377) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-74332-542-8
- OCLC:
- 1129192226
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