All roads lead to Mecca: on foot, on camels or through the steam machine : the Shami pilgrimage route (between the 7th and 20th centuries) a new reading based on GIS applications

Literary, archaeological and cartographic data were collated to reconstruct the Ottoman Darb al-Hajj al-Shami (16th-early 20th centuries), probably planned by Sinan, the famous architect of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, as well as the Hijaz Railway. Examination of the relationship between the Med...

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Subtitles:sīrāan ʿlā ālāʾqdām, ʿlā ẓhūr ālǧmāl( āʾū ʿn ṭrīq ālāʾāla ālbḫārīa, drb ālḥǧ ālšāmī )bīn ālqrn 7 ūālqrn 20 qrāʾa ǧdīda bālāʿtmād ʿlā tṭbīqāt nẓm ālmʿlūmāt ālǧġrāfīa ālǧzʾ ālṯānī
Authors: Dauphin, Claudine 1950- (Author) ; Ben Jeddou, Mohamed (Author) ; Castex, Jean-Marie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Arabic
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2018
In: Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
Year: 2018, Volume: 59, Pages: 49-73
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Geographical information system / Ottoman Empire / Landscape / Omaijadenreich / Mameluke Empire / Route of travel / History 600-1999
IxTheo Classification:TF Early Middle Ages
TG High Middle Ages
TH Late Middle Ages
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Darb al-Hajj al-Shami
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Literary, archaeological and cartographic data were collated to reconstruct the Ottoman Darb al-Hajj al-Shami (16th-early 20th centuries), probably planned by Sinan, the famous architect of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, as well as the Hijaz Railway. Examination of the relationship between the Mediaeval Route (described in Part I of this article, in ADAJ 58, 2016: 85-112), the Ottoman Route and the Hijaz Railway, and landscape elements (altitude, slope, relief, orientation, distance to hydrographic network, springs), while also taking into account visibility, security, climate and obstacles on the terrain, enabled us to define environmental parameters, which were integrated into GIS analyses. These proved how the Umayyad to Mamluk route adaped to the changing terrain, whilst the Ottoman route was an artificial creation that moulded the environment according to a global project of civil engineering.
Contains:Enthalten in: Jordanien. Dā'irat al-Āṯār al-ʿĀmma, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan