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Article: The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2006
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The Places Where Men Pray Together: Cities in Islamic Lands, Seventh through the Tenth Centuries. By PAUL WHEATLEY. Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2001. Pp. xvii + 572. $65.
The last page of the epilogue of this weighty volume is adorned with two pieces of Arabic calligraphy. The first states, "One would be a liar if one spoke all that one has heard." This statement reflects the capacious breadth of the late Professor Paul Wheatley's book, published posthumously, and points to the author's critical and judicious analysis of the evidence on Islamic cities of the first/seventh through fourth/tenth centuries. The study of the Islamic city has, of course, long ...