Nomad Settlements Essay, Research Paper
Ar-Risha
in Jordan? Bedouin settlement, through architecture and settlement
structure insight into Bedouin politics and polities. Ancient service
station – physical testimony to ?direct diplomacy between the state and
the tribes?.. Qasr-al-Hayr
? illustrating concern with including nomadic population within
larger Muslim community and state.?
Excavators see initial function as ?a means of controlling and
settling turbulent tribes?? medina show central authority, mosque symbol
Muslim unity, income from water supply? entice nomads with focal point. A
Total Approach: the Landscape? nomads not autonomous? sedentary
partners, caravan protectors, to holly isolate urban life away from
greater whole is misleading? proper place within landscape (marketing,
trading networks, service centres). Bad
paradigm? archaeologists can help? look at physical links; irrigation,
field systems, nomad, trade, pilgrimage routes Dahlak
Kebir? nr Red Sea? looking just at city think city of the dead? -but landscape as a whole see he water
supply network eventually lead to knowledge that it was an important
trading centre. Qsar
es-Seghur? see differences between Portuguese and Muslim vast extent
of water supply systems that the Muslims had in comparison to the
Portuguese. Sacred
Geography? further component of the total approach? limited amount
to Islam, but possibly more in the future.