A landscape of pilgrimage and trade in Wadi Masila, Yemen : al-Qisha and Qabr Hud in the Islamic period
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A landscape of pilgrimage and trade in Wadi Masila, Yemen : al-Qisha and Qabr Hud in the Islamic period
（BAR international series, 1899）
Archaeopress, 2009
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-142)
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This volume reports on excavations at the site of al-Qisha, an Islamic period settlement in the Mahra region of Yemen. In particular it examines the role of the village as a gateway community linked with the Ba'Abbad of Qabr Hud, the community which guarded the tomb of the prophet Hud, a site of pilgrimage. The presence of pilgrims encouraged the growth of trade and a market, and this trade and the landscape of pilgrim routes forms a further focus for the study.
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