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.