Aleppo: a history
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CONTENTS
List of figures
Preface
A bbreviations
XVII
XX
XI
1 Setting the scene — Bronze and Iron Ages
1
Environment 4
A high place 5
Bronze Age (c.3600—c.!200 bc) 8
Amorites (c.2000— 1595 bc) 8
Going by The Book 9
Hittite dominance (Halab, 1595-c. 1200 bc) 11
Mitanni, Hittite kingdom and Egypt (c. 1500-1274 bc) 12
The Storm God 13
Transition to the Iron Age (c ,1200—900 bc) 15
‘Aramaean’ and ‘Neo-Hittite States’ (c. 1100-C.900 bc) 17
Trade 20
Art 21
Neo-Assyrian dominance (883—612 bc) 22
Neo-Babylonian and Persian rule (612—333 bc) 25
Alexander (333—323 bc) 26
2 Greek and Roman Aleppo 28
Seleucus9 tetrapolis 31
Hellenistic Aleppo (Beroia) 32
Hellenisation 33
A new city centre 34
The Syrian Goddess 35
Collapse (c. 100—65 bc) 36
V
CONTENTS
Enter Rome (64 bc) 38
End of the Seleucids 38
Parthia - threat or opportunity? 39
Roman Beroia 40
Wider challenges 44
The Judaean experience 44
Military build up 45
A new Persian threat 46
From pagan to Christian — the Byzantine transition 4 7
Failed mission 49
3 In Antioch’s orbit - Byzantine Aleppo in a world of
churches and monasteries (353-637) 54
Bidding for God 54
A world of churches 55
Church of St Simeon 56
Cathedral of St Helen 60
The Bandara Synagogue 64
Fortress City 65
The Eastern threat 66
Sasanian occupation (ad 611-28) 70
4 Transition to an Islamic Order - Aleppo on a new
frontier (637-947) 72
A soft transition 72
Consolidating Islamic rule 74
Qinnisrin 75
Rightly Guided Caliphs (640-60) 77
The Umayyads 661-750 77
The Aleppo Great Mosque 79
From forum to suq 81
The Ah has ids, rule from Iraq 83
Abbasid decline 85
5 A delicate balance - between Turkic and Arab
worlds (947-1097) 88
Enter the Turks . 88
. . . via Egypt 89
vi
CONTENTS
Hamdanids (in A leppo 947—1004) 90
‘The platform’ 92
Byzantines return (962-1084) 92
A religious mosaic 94
Playing off Byzantines vs Fatimids 96
A self-serving court; a glorious failure? 96
Curtain-raiser to the Crusades? 97
Mirdasids (1024-80) 99
The Turcoman factor 100
Seljuk foothold in Aleppo 1071 101
Manzikert 1071 101
Seljuks take direct power in Aleppo (1086) 102
The testament of the Great Mosque minaret
1090-4 103
6 Fortress of Islam - Aleppo and the First Crusade
(1098—1127) 107
A Christian j ihad? 107
Investing Antioch (1097-8) 109
Antioch vs Aleppo (1098-1119) 111
War aims 111
On to Jerusalem 113
The Antioch/Aleppo Front 1098—1120 114
Rising discontent in Aleppo 118
The Field of Blood 1119 120
Aleppo besieged 1124—5 122
7 Zengid Aleppo (1127—74) 124
Zengids 124
A saviour - Imad al-Din Zengi 124
Holy and war 125
Byzantine designs on Aleppo 1137 125
The first madrasas 126
Zengi’s new agenda (1128^46) 126
The ascent of Nur al-Din Zengi (r. 1146—74) 128
The Second Crusade 1148 128
Nur al-Din wins Damascus 1154 129
Building on message 130
On Abraham’s path 134
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Into Egypt 136
Switching Caliphs 138
A mixed city 139
8 Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1260) 142
Salad in extends his rule 142
A question of authority 144
Al-Zahir Ghazi (r.l 186-1216) 145
Surviving the transition 147
The northern front after 1188, trade 148
Ayyubid building program — the ‘Chosen
Pearls' 150
A princely Citadel 152
Prototype of Islamic fortifications 154
Ayyubid stability 156
Fostering piety 158
Anticipating paradise 160
A new axis 163
9 A wider world opens — Aleppo under the Mamluks
(1260-1516) 168
Mongols (1258-60) 168
The Great and Lesser Khans 169
Aleppo falls to the Mongols 1260 169
The Bahri Mamluks (1260-1382) 173
Baybars (r.l260-77) 173
Securing Aleppo 175
Taking Antioch 1264—8 176
A city on its knees? Aleppo in the 1260s 178
Building the Mamluk world 179
First impressions 185
Tamerlane 1400 188
Recovery 190
A trading city, the suqs 192
Burji Mamluks (1382—1516) 194
The Venetian presence 194
Khans and palaces 196
A lost cause, 1516 (Marj Dabiq) 198
An accidental conquest? 199
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10 The first Ottoman centuries (1516-1750)
Planting the Ottoman imperium 203
Aleppo in the Ottoman world 205
Faith and trade 206
The‘Silk Route’ 207
An Ottoman ‘image* 209
A monumental axis 210
al-Khusrofiye (Mosque-Madrasa of Khusrof
Pasha) 212
al-1 Adeliye (Mosque of Dukakinzade Mehmet Pasha) 214
Khan al-J umruk 215
al-Bahramiye (Mosque of Bahram Pasha) 216
City within a city — al-Medina 218
City administrative structures 219
Strangers in the city 220
‘An Epitome of the Whole World’ 224
European life in the Medina 225
Elite housing 229
Beyond the walls 231
A ‘new’ quarter (Jdeide) 231
Other extra-mural offshoots 232
The Hajj 233
Aleppo’s decline 234
Population displacement 234
Khan al-Wazir 237
Heavy hand of centralism 237
The religious ‘fringe’ 239
Inquiring minds 241
End of the silk route 243
11 Modernising Aleppo (1750-2000)
Waning of authority 247
Rule by consensus? 248
Embracing Rome 250
Return to an ‘imperial*style 251
Disintegration and invasion 252
Revolt in Egypt 254
Egyptian occupation 1831 —40 254
A ‘reordering * (Tanzimat) 255
1850 anti-Christian disturbances 255
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IX
CONTENTS
Arabs in the late Ottoman world 257
Reign of Abdul Hamid (1876-1909) 258
A troubled ‘Golden Age’ 258
‘Shadow of God on Earth’ - the Sultan-Caliph 258
Co-opting ‘Arabistan’ 259
Hamidism in architecture 260
Binding Aleppo by rail 262
End of the House of Osman 1909-20 264
The ‘Young Turks’ and Arab nationalism 264
1915, collapse of Ottomanism by consensus 266
Armenian deportations 266
Aleppo at war’s end 268
Liberation from what? 269
New frontiers 270
A mandate for confusion (1920—46) 271
The jigsaw 272
The big loser 273
Losing Antioch 275
Terminating the Mandate 275
Aleppo’s loss of innocence 276
Postscript 280
Boxed in 281
Fighting back 281
Living off the past 281
Keeping a healthy distance 283
The Baathist Revolution 9 284
Rescuing ancient Aleppo 284
Town planning 286
2011 288
A war for (or against?) Aleppo 290
Hussein’s lost child 291
Another view from the platform 291
A confected Doomsday 293
Appendix — Maps of A leppo 295
Glossary 299
Bibliography 306
Index 325
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