Near East; North Africa; Central Asia

1985 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Theodore Levin
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Near East

Artisans to Producers

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-148
Author(s):  
Fanny Bessard
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Near East ◽  
Physical Change ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Islam

This chapter considers the physical change of the workspace chronologically, geographically, and by industry. From the case studies of pottery, glass, and textile making, as well as food processing, it discusses the standardization of the Roman practice, as seen at Timgad in North Africa, of zoning and conglomerating crafts in early Islam across the Near East and Central Asia. While acknowledging this continuity with the past, it examines the novelty and significance of manufacturing after 800, when ‘post-Roman’ ceased to be a meaningful description of Near Eastern economy, and questions whether urban crafts experienced differentiated or similar forms of development.

scholarly journals Rabies in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Africa: Building

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Taylor ◽  
Victor Del Rio Vilas ◽  
Terence Scott ◽  
Andre Coetzer ◽  
Joaquin M. Prada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
North Africa

Images of the Supernatural World: Bactria-Margiana Seals and Relations With the Near East and the Indus

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-30
Author(s):  
Joan Aruz
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Near East ◽  
Divine Power ◽  
Artistic Rendering ◽  
Southern Iran ◽  
Indus Valley ◽  
The Arts ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper focuses on one aspect of the representation of divinity in the Oxus region: the way in which animal and human characteristics are combined to create various supernatural creatures. Both the presence and absence of certain attributes are emphasized in the attempt to define the extent to which the Oxus region relates to that of its neighbours both east and west. There are some pervasive similarities in the artistic rendering of divine power throughout the Near East, western Central Asia and the Indus Valley. However, there are also major differences, which seem to illustrate the impact of Mesopotamian divine imagery on Harappan art, while the deities and demons of Bactria-Margiana belong to a world similar, in part, to that expressed in the arts of southern Iran.

The Nature of Turko-Byzantine Relations in the Sixth Century Ad

Belleten ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 68 (252) ◽  
pp. 423-430
Author(s):  
Hatice Erdemi̇r
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Near East ◽  
Economic Aspect ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Persian Empire ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Supporting Material

In the middle of the sixth century, a new nomad power emerged in central Asia. A federation led by Turkic groups which rapidly impinged on the Persian empire after the subjugation of the Hephtalites and had an impact on the Roman empire through the flight westwards of the Avars. As a result, both Romans and Persians were soon in diplomatic contact with the Turkish Kagan, and considerable evidence for this process is presented in the fragments of the Greek historian Menandros Protector, with useful supporting material in the historian Theophylact Simocatta and the Syriac author John of Ephesus. This diplomacy had both an economic aspect, the ability of the Turks to intervene in the silk trade, and a strategic one, since both Roman and Persian empires could view the Turks as useful allies against their traditional rival in the Near East. The Turks could attack Persia through the former territory of the Hephtalites, while they could take over Roman possesions in the Crimea.

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