IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 227: Port Towns of the Islamic Period 7th-15th Centuries, I: The Archaeological Dimension

Organiser:	Carol Meyer, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois
Moderator/Chair:	Dionisius A. Agius, Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 227-a	Al-Mina': The Medieval Port of Antioch (Language: English) Tasha Vorderstrasse, Netherlands Institute of the Near East, Universiteit Leiden Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies
Paper 227-b	The Medieval Red Sea Ports of Quseir and Aydhab (Language: English) David Peacock, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Paper 227-c	Alexandria after 'Amr (Language: English) Carol Meyer, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies
Paper 227-d	Port City Topographies Imagined and Real: What Texts and Archaeology Tell Us about Littoral Urban Forms in the Western Indian Ocean (Language: English) Roxani Eleni Margariti, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, Emory University Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies
Abstract	This session will present the archaeology of various port cities in the eastern Mediteranean, Red Sea and western Indian Ocean.