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This book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups.Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.SommaireINTRODUCTIONDaniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, and Yasser Tabbaa, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle EastPART ONE – ECONOMICS AND TRADEJere Bacharach, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic EvidenceStefan Heidemann, How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic PeriodDonald Whitcomb, Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid TimesPART TWO – GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITYNitzan Amitai-Preiss, What Happened in 155 A.H. / 771–72 A.D? The Testimony of Lead SealsSimonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese, The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An interdisciplinary analysis of literary sources, material evidence and historical contextBethany J. Walker, On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian FieldworkPART THREE – MATERIAL CULTUREMiriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza – An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological FindingsYasser Tabbaa, Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth CenturiesMiriam Kühn, Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative SourcesPART FOUR – CHANGING LANDSCAPESNimrod Luz, Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk PatronageOren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus, The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, G.I.S. Applications, and a Re-examination of the Literary SourcesDaphna Sharef-Davidovich, The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856–1909PART FIVE – MONUMENTSHani Hamza, Turbat Abū Zakariyya Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (chief surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya)Maximilian Hartmuth, Oral tradition and architectural history: a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Balkans in local memory, textual sources, and material evidenceYoram Meital, Deliberately Not Empty: Reading Cairo’s Unknown Soldier MonumentVoir sur le site de l’éditeur