{"product_id":"9781788312943","title":"City in Late Medieval Anatolia Cross-Cultural Interaction and Urbanism in the Middle East","description":"\u003ch3\u003eEarly and Medieval Islamic World\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eCity in Late Medieval Anatolia\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eCross-Cultural Interaction and Urbanism in the Middle East\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRachel Goshgarian | Roy Mottahedeh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Military \/ Medieval\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eLate medieval Anatolia was characterised by widespread political instability. Yet despite these difficulties, the cities themselves were relatively stable spaces populated by complex and syncretic communities, and managed by various models of grass roots, urban self-governance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Goshgarian here offers the first social history of the region in this period to draw on Armenian sources. She reads these alongside other locally-written texts, primarily those in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and uses recent scholarship on medieval Iberia and the \u003ci\u003econvivencia\u003c\/i\u003e paradigm – the method by which social cohesion and coexistence could be created between different ethnic and cultural communities – to offer a fuller  and vital picture of the region's cities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, \u003ci\u003eThe City in Late Medieval Anatolia\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a wide range of timely debates – including inter-faith interaction, urbanism, social history and the politics of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRachel Goshgarian\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. She received her PhD from Harvard University and has contributed to several edited collections and peer-reviewed journals such as \u003ci\u003ePrinceton Papers Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Seljuks of Anatolia\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 January 2030\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eI.B. Tauris\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781788312943\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51515358806156,"sku":"9781788312943","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781788312943","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}