JIA/Agricultural Landscape of Nishapur and the Hinterland of a Metropole

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How to Cite: Lorzadeh, Z., & Laleh, H. (2018). Agricultural Landscape of Nishapur and the Hinterland of a Metropole. Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 5(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1558/jia.37689

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Nishapur, as a metropole and one of the main urban centers in Khurasan, expanded over a vast geographical area with a heartland and a hinterland that together constitute the extensive Nishapur. In this paper, we investigate the variety and distribution of agricultural productsin the extensive Nishapur as a whole. By focusing on the landscape of fibers and fabrics we explore the role they performed in the economy of Nishapur at its apogee in the 4th AH/10th CE to 6th AH/12th CE century. The results demonstrate how the heartland and the hinterland in the extensive Nishapur acted together as a cohesive socio-economic system and why it is crucial, for understanding the agricultural landscape, to consider Nishapur in its entirety.

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  • container title
    Journal of Islamic Archaeology
  • creator
    Zahra Lorzadeh; Haeedeh Laleh
  • issn
    2051-9729 (Online)
  • issue
    5.1
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield, United Kingdom
  • rights holder
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
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