Notes on Dates and Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Prologue. Ibn Battuta's Sijilmasa Journey
Chapter 1. Approaches to Sijilmasa
Chapter 2. Confluence of Time and Space in Morocco's Desert Land
Chapter 3. Founding the Oasis City
Chapter 4. Sijilmasa in Empire
Chapter 5. Moroccan Rulers at the Desert's Edge: The Filalians
Chapter 6. Out of Sijilmasa: The Alaouites
Chapter 7. Using Models of the Islamic City as Guides
Chapter 8. An Altered Present; An Uncertain Future
Appendix 1. Moroccan Dynastic Rulers Governing Sijilmasa
Appendix 2. Ceramics Typology
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
"Messier and Miller are among the few Americans working on pre-modern North African topics. They are possibly unique in their role as joint practitioners of urban Islamic archaeology for North Africa. They are more qualified to write this type of book than any other combination of scholars I know... [This] book reflects an effective integration of archaeological data with an urban history, and can be a model for the study of any pre-modern Muslim city from the Atlantic to the Indus Valley." -- Jere Bacharach, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Washington, and author of Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coins
Ronald A. Messier is Professor Emeritus of History at Middle Tennessee State University. From 1987 to 1998, he directed the excavation of Sijilmasa. He is the author of The Almoravids and the Meanings of Jihad and coeditor of The Jihad and Its Times. James A. Miller is the Director of the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE), the Fulbright Commission in Morocco. He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Geography at Clemson University and the author of Imlil: A Modern Moroccan Geography.
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