Introduction
The archaeology of warfare is construed here in its widest sense. This approach is necessitated in part by the relative paucity of published archaeological work on the actual sites of battles in the Islamic world and palaeopathological studies of those killed in war. It is also very rare for armor, weapons, banners, and other related military equipment to be recovered from excavated contexts, although such items are sometimes encountered in Muslim religious buildings, palaces, and European cathedral treasuries (and many fine examples are today housed in museum collections). As a result the majority of the entry will deal with architecture and civil engineering, dimensions of warfare that might best be described as defensive rather than offensive in character. The archaeological evidence concentrates upon the regions of the Iberian Peninsula, North and East Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
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Milwright, M. (2020). Military Activity in Islamic Archaeology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1829
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