Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter considers the history of Islamic burial, gravestone, and cemetery research on Bahrain, and discusses the gravestone chronology, gravestone and cemetery types, stone sources and gravestone manufacture, the gravestone inscriptions, content, iconography and decoration, and the archaeology of the shrines and cemeteries in which some of the gravestones were found.Chapter 2 presents the gravestones in the form of a catalogue.It provides detail on each location where gravestones were recorded, and individual reference numbers, co-ordinates, Table 1.1 Gravestone locations, abbreviations, and numbers (cont.)
Source: BRILL eBooks
Institutions: Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Exeter
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4242858685