Rubina Raja, The Oxford handbook of Palmyra. Oxford handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 632. ISBN 9780190858117.I noted the publication of the book here. Subsequent posts on Palmyra are here, here, and here.Review by
Marco Ferrario, Trento / Universität Augsburg. marco.ferrario@unitn.it... It follows from the above that a synthetic work capable of presenting an accessible and, at the same time, a well-informed overview of the entire history of Palmyra and its oases from its early settlement phases to the conquest of Syria by the Caliphal army was urgently needed. The unprecedented destruction leveled on the site (and the country as a whole) by the civil war and its spillover in the form of the Islamic State (Dā‘iš) only made the matter more pressing. ...
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