Bilet and the wider world

New insights into the archaeology of Islam in Tigray

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3329461
AutoresJulien Loiseau (0000-0002-4655-0329, Aix-Marseille Université, autor correspondente), Simon Dorso (0000-0001-7609-7484), Yves Gleize (0000-0003-4270-2388, Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives), David Ollivier (Aix-Marseille Université), Deresse Ayenachew (Aix-Marseille Université), Hiluf Berhe (Mekelle University), Amélie Chekroun (0000-0001-6380-1532, Aix-Marseille Université), Bertrand Hirsch (0000-0002-6328-4931, Sorbonne Université)
Ano2021
Volume95
Fascículo380
Páginas508-529
Data de publicação2021-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2020.163
OpenAlexW3116963044
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas22

Recent archaeological investigations in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, have revealed extensive evidence for medieval Muslim communities. Although the settlement of Muslims near modern Kwiha was previously attested by epigraphic evidence, its exact location remained unknown. Fieldwork, with the support of the ERC project 'HornEast', has identified and excavated the cemetery at Bilet-the first excavation of a Muslim cemetery in the Ethiopian Highlands. The results reveal the existence of flourishing cosmopolitanism among Muslim communities in the very heart of the Zagwe Christian kingdom. These Muslim communities developed from both foreign and local populations and were well connected with the wider Islamicate world

Ancient history · Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Cosmopolitanism · Excavation · Flourishing · Geography · Islam · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · African history and culture analysis · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology