{"product_id":"aleppo-by-ross-burns-9780815367987","title":"Aleppo","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAleppo\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently, it enjoyed a thriving urban life—in particular, an active traditional suq, with a continuous tradition going back centuries. Its tangle of streets still follows the Hellenistic grid, and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze\/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a ‘high place’ in the Canaanite tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Arab Middle Ages, Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence. Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition. In Mamluk and Ottoman times, the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant. Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition, with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras. Its diverse ethnic mixture, with significant Kurdish, Turkish, Christian, and Armenian communities, provides a richer layering of influences on the city’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Ross Burns explores \u003cem\u003eAleppo\u003c\/em\u003e's rich history from its earliest history through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history, accessible both to scholarly readers and to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city’s past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47604967211244,"sku":"9780815367987","price":82.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780815367987-aleppo.jpg?v=1778117160","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/aleppo-by-ross-burns-9780815367987","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}