Resumen de The markets of Jerusalem in the early Muslim period: location, interpretation, and the creation of a new urban zoning
While the urban development of Jerusalem in the Roman and Byzantine periods was characterized by a monolithic religious and cultural appearance, the city underwent a gradual process of transformation following the Islamic conquest. It culminated, for the first time in its long history, in the formation of a new urban zoning, demarcating the physical precincts of its three communities, the Muslim, the Christian and the Jewish. As shown in an early Muslim tradition by Ibn al Murajjā, the linear markets of Jerusalem served as the division lines between the communities. The refined evaluation of the crystallization of ethnically oriented quarters and the division of lands between the Christian, the Muslim and the Jewish communities is based on abundant archaeological findings and on new interpretation of this early tradition on the markets of Jerusalem.
