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dc.contributor.authorInsoll, T
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-19T09:46:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-31
dc.date.updated2022-12-18T17:09:33Z
dc.description.abstractArchaeology is in a unique position to offer a material culture based perspective on Islamisation and conversion to Islam, particularly in regions where historical sources might be limited or absent. This is explored with reference to two archaeological areas, Gao in Mali, and Harlaa in Ethiopia to assess if similar material markers can recur archaeologically through evaluating mosques, Muslim burials and Arabic epigraphy, settlement structure and domestic architecture, animal and plant remains, ceramics, and miscellaneous artifacts potentially suggestive of Islamisation in both regions, primarily for the period between the 11th-13th centuries CE. It is concluded that the evidence from Gao and Harlaa attests the variety of interpretations of Islam that exist, but, correspondingly, through the recurrence of key markers such as mosques, Muslim burials, and Arabic epigraphy, also affirms material similarity, yet without having to make course to a unitary and erroneous concept of ‘African Islam’.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Union Horizon 2020en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 9 (2), pp. 135–171en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1558/jia.25864
dc.identifier.grantnumber694254en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/132062
dc.identifierORCID: 0000-0002-3072-3088 (Insoll, Timothy)
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherEquinox Publishingen_GB
dc.rights© 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd. This version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  en_GB
dc.subjectIslamisationen_GB
dc.subjectarchaeologyen_GB
dc.subjectGaoen_GB
dc.subjectHarlaaen_GB
dc.subjectMalien_GB
dc.subjectEthiopiaen_GB
dc.title‘Becoming Muslim’: A Comparative Archaeological Approach to the Material Markers of Islam in the Niger Bend, Mali, and Eastern Ethiopiaen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2022-12-19T09:46:08Z
dc.identifier.issn2051-9729
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Equinox Publishing via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Islamic Archaeologyen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/  en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-11-24
dcterms.dateSubmitted2022-09-01
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2023-02-01
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2022-12-18T17:09:40Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2023-04-06T14:10:14Z
refterms.panelDen_GB
refterms.dateFirstOnline2022-11-24


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