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Heidemann, Stefan and Andrea Becker (editors). Raqqa II: die islamische Stadt

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Heidemann, Stefan and Andrea Becker (editors). Raqqa II: die islamische Stadt
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Heidemann, Stefan and Andrea Becker (editors), Raqqa II: die islamische Stadt, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2003, 318 pages, 60 plates, 30 figures, 1 color foldout flan, 2 color foldout maps. Heidemann and Becker's volume in the al-Raqqa series makes particularly good use of primary Arabic sources and presents material in a lucid and well-organized fashion. Volume 2 is devoted to written sources on the "sister" cities of al-Raqqa and al-Rafiqa: contemporary Arabic texts and inscribed objects from the German excavation and those now in public and private collections (such as coins, inscribed glass, tombstones, and wooden wall reliefs). This series of final reports covers the fieldwork done at al-Raqqa and its environs under the directorship of the influential art historian Dr. Michael Meinecke, who led fieldwork there from 1982 to 1994 and passed away the following year. Al-Raqqa is the flagship project in Syria of the German Institute, a body that has already produced important scholarship on the architecture and urban forms of Islamic-period Syrian cities, ex Libris Norman D. Nicol.