Towns and material culture in the medieval Middle East /

Based in part on a conference on the history of the medieval and modern Middle East, held June 29, 1999 at Bar-Ilan University.Includes bibliographical references and index.The Seljuks in Jerusalem / Shimon Gat -- The Frankish impact on the urban landscape of medieval Palestine / Michael Ehrlich -- Tripoli reinvented: a case of Mamluk urbanization / Nimrod Luz -- Hospices and hospitals in Mamluk Jerusalem / Dan Bahat -- The Cadi and the urban society: the case study of medieval Egypt, 9th-12th centuries / Yaacov Lev -- Is there really an Islamic space? Urban and social issues, as reflected in the "Qadi" (Cadi) Courts of Egypt and Syria (13th-16th centuries) / Yehoshua Frenkel -- The history of the paper industry in al-Sham in the middle ages / Zohar Amar -- Medieval Mediterranean textiles, basketry, and cordage newly excavated in Israel / Orit Shamir and Alisa Baginski -- Trade of medical substances in the medieval and Ottoman Levant (Bilad al-Sham) / Efraim Lev.Vermeulen, Urbai