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Multi-disciplinary approaches to the Islamic period in Egypt and the Red Sea Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Mutsuo Kawatoko
Mutsuo Kawatoko*
Affiliation:
5-1-4, Nishiogikita, Suginami-ku, Tokyo 167-0042, Japan (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

We are privileged to offer a summary of the massive campaign of excavation and survey conducted by the author and his team from Japan in northern Egypt and the neighbouring coast of Sinai. Over the last few years they have excavated a large sector of al-Fustat (the early Islamic settlement on the outskirts of modern Cairo), mapped the early Christian monastery at Wadi al-Tur (sixth–twelfth century AD), recorded early Islamic rock inscriptions on Mt Naqus eighth–twentieth century AD), mapped the port and mosque at Raya (originating in the sixth–twelfth or thirteenth century AD) and investigated on a large scale the fourteenth–twentieth-century sequence at al-Kilani (al-Tur). Among the objects unearthed at al-Kilani were 4000 fragments of manuscripts. The work is throwing new light on early Islam, its development of social and commercial networks, and its relation with Christian, Coptic and Byzantine cultures.

Keywords

early Christianearly IslamicmedievalEgyptSinaial-FustatRayaal-Turmonasterymosqueporttradeconversionrock inscriptions
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 306 , December 2005 , pp. 844 - 857
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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