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This attractive volume,..., presents an archaeological survey of Rayy's urban and material culture on the basis of 2005 and 2007 excavations of that ancient city (now a suburb of Tehran), with special reference to historical and numismatic data. Though of particular utility to students of Islamic archaeology, this work should not be overlooked by those who would seek a deeper appreciation of the early Islamic settlement of Iran... One is reminded here how important it is that students of the Islamic world renew their interest in its urban development, as the subject clearly transcends disciplinary fault lines. Those who study Islamic religious, political, or/and social history would be well advised to heed what their colleagues can tell them in this regard, even as the archaeologist is compelled to use historical sources to shed light on what excavations can no longer reveal. Indeed, the very topography of the Muslim urban center speaks no less as a document of humanity than the literary sources we find at our disposal, and sets the bar for the verisimilitude of our historical reconstructions of the past. Rodrigo Adem in Al-Abhath 60-61 (2012-2013), p. 181-182.

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Rocco Rante, Ph. D. (Aix en Provence, 2009), Aix Marseille Université, is an archaeologist at the Musée du Louvre and the director of the Archaeological Mission of the Bukhara Oasis in Central Asia. A specialist on the Khorasan region, he has published Nishapur Revisited with Annabelle Collinet, (Oxford 2013).

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