{"product_id":"book-vn5o","title":"Aleppo","description":"Shortlisted for the 2018 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeAleppo is one of the longest-surviving cities of the ancient and Islamic Middle East. Until recently it enjoyed a thriving urban life?in particular an active traditional suq, with a continuous tradition going back centuries. Its tangle of streets still follow the Hellenistic grid and above it looms the great Citadel, which contains recently-uncovered remains of a Bronze\/Iron Age temple complex, suggesting an even earlier role as a 'high place' in the Canaanite tradition.In the Arab Middle Ages, Aleppo was a strongpoint of the Islamic resistance to the Crusader presence. Its medieval Citadel is one of the most dramatic examples of a fortified enclosure in the Islamic tradition. In Mamluk and Ottoman times, the city took on a thriving commercial role and provided a base for the first European commercial factories and consulates in the Levant. Its commercial life funded a remarkable building tradition with some hundreds of the 600 or so officially-declared monuments dating from these eras. Its diverse ethnic mixture, with significant Kurdish, Turkish, Christian and Armenian communities, provide a richer layering of influences on the city's life.In this volume, Ross Burns explores Aleppo's rich history from its earliest history through to the modern era, providing a thorough treatment of this fascinating city history, accessible both to scholarly readers and to the general public interested in a factual and comprehensive survey of the city's past.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67012334190896,"sku":"ZEvn5o","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":67012334223664,"sku":"ZMvn5o","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook [BD]","offer_id":67012334256432,"sku":"BDvn5o","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vn5o","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}