Conquest, Ecology and Economy in Islamic North Africa: The Example of the Central Medjerda Valley

伊斯兰北非的征服、生态和经济：以中部梅杰尔达山谷为例

• 批准号: 429040062
• 负责人: Dr. Philipp Freiherr von Rummel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Zentrale Berlin
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429040062?language=en
• 关键词: Conquest; Ecology; Economy; Islamic; North

The Muslim conquest of North Africa and subsequent regime changes resulted in widespread changes in urbanism, agriculture and regional economies which are fundamental to understanding the development of North African society, united under Islam. Recent synthetic studies, including by the joint PIs, challenge what has long been the textbook understanding of the collapse of Roman rule and the impact of the Muslim conquests in North Africa, in which the eighth and ninth centuries have often been seen as a dark age. Ongoing excavations by the PIs at the important, neighbouring urban centres of Simitthus (Chimtou) and Bulla Regia in NW Tunisia directed by von Rummel and Fenwick respectively, have highlighted the complexity of urban trajectories, technological innovation and environmental change in the medieval period.The proposed project will build on these findings, addressing a fundamental gap in our understanding of cultural, economic and landscape transformations in medieval North Africa. Moving beyond the simple question of urban continuity or collapse in late antiquity and the early medieval period, it will investigate the extent to which the Muslim conquests and subsequent regime change represented a force of economic and social transformation. This will be assessed by tracking long-term changes in settlement patterns, landscape use, patterns of exploitation and technology –in the central Medjerda valley, the famed granary of Roman and Islamic Africa. The project will evaluate five sites with different trajectories in the medieval period: Bulla Regia, Simitthus (Chimtou), Thunusuda (Bordj Hallal), Belalis Maior (Henchir El-Faouar) and Vaga (Béja), conducting topographic and geophysical survey in order to identify suitable zones for excavation. Following this evaluation, the sites will be targeted with a systematic sampling strategy aimed at recovering a stratified material culture sequence and a high density of plant and animal remains associated with occupation sequences. Environmental data will be extracted from the sites’ hinterlands to understand changing climatic and environmental conditions. This data will be synthesized with relevant Latin, Greek and Arabic sources to assess the full extent of the transformation resulting from the Muslim conquest of North Africa, subsequent regime change and the spread of Islam. The results will be contextualized within broader trends in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world which characterize the ‘first Islamic millennium’. This project will ultimately result in both a fundamental advance of our understanding of Islamic North Africa and a new interpretative framework which can be applied to other regions of the Islamic world.

穆斯林征服了北非，并在城市主义的广泛变化中征服了北非的北非社会的发展，在伊斯兰教中统一，挑战了罗马统治的崩溃和北非穆斯林征服的影响经常被重要的，邻近的西尼特（Chimtou）城市中心（Chimtou）和布拉·雷吉亚（Bulla Regia）在西北突尼斯（Von Rummel）和芬威克（Fenwick）指导的，分别是技术创新和纪念期环境变化我们对文化的理解超出了后期的连续性崩溃的问题，以及JSlim征服，次序和次序制度的变化呈现出经济和社会转型的力量。伊斯兰非洲。通过系统的策略，将覆盖的材料培养序列与占领序列的高密度和动物缓解序列变化。在地中海和伊斯兰世界世界中更广泛的趋势中，既是伊斯兰北非的基本建议，又是一个新的解释性框架，可以应用于友好世界的其他地区。