Bethany Walker is a professor in the history department at Missouri State University. Walker's areas of expertise include world history, Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern archaeology, and women in Islam. She is interested particularly in Islamic archaeology in Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen; history of medieval Islam; and Mamluk Jordan, among other things.

• Contents List of Illustrations Preface Chapter 1 – Defining the Levant (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 2 – Ottoman Pottery Assemblages from Excavations in Israel (Miriam Avissar) Chapter 3 – The Ottoman Pottery of Palestine (Marwan Abu Khalaf) Chapter 4 – An Ethno-Archaeological Approach to Ottoman Pottery: The Case of “Gaza Gray Ware” (Hamed Salem) Chapter 5 – Identifying the Late Islamic Period Ceramically: Preliminary Observations on Ottoman Wares from Central and Northern Jordan (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 6 – Stability and Change in Ottoman Coarse Wares in Cyprus (Ruth Smadar Gabrieli) Bibliography Contributors Index Illustrations

Bethany Walker is a professor in the history department at Missouri State University. Walker's areas of expertise include world history, Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern archaeology, and women in Islam. She is interested particularly in Islamic archaeology in Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen; history of medieval Islam; and Mamluk Jordan, among other things.

• Contents List of Illustrations Preface Chapter 1 – Defining the Levant (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 2 – Ottoman Pottery Assemblages from Excavations in Israel (Miriam Avissar) Chapter 3 – The Ottoman Pottery of Palestine (Marwan Abu Khalaf) Chapter 4 – An Ethno-Archaeological Approach to Ottoman Pottery: The Case of “Gaza Gray Ware” (Hamed Salem) Chapter 5 – Identifying the Late Islamic Period Ceramically: Preliminary Observations on Ottoman Wares from Central and Northern Jordan (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 6 – Stability and Change in Ottoman Coarse Wares in Cyprus (Ruth Smadar Gabrieli) Bibliography Contributors Index Illustrations

Bethany Walker is a professor in the history department at Missouri State University. Walker's areas of expertise include world history, Middle Eastern history, Middle Eastern archaeology, and women in Islam. She is interested particularly in Islamic archaeology in Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen; history of medieval Islam; and Mamluk Jordan, among other things.

• Contents List of Illustrations Preface Chapter 1 – Defining the Levant (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 2 – Ottoman Pottery Assemblages from Excavations in Israel (Miriam Avissar) Chapter 3 – The Ottoman Pottery of Palestine (Marwan Abu Khalaf) Chapter 4 – An Ethno-Archaeological Approach to Ottoman Pottery: The Case of “Gaza Gray Ware” (Hamed Salem) Chapter 5 – Identifying the Late Islamic Period Ceramically: Preliminary Observations on Ottoman Wares from Central and Northern Jordan (Bethany J. Walker) Chapter 6 – Stability and Change in Ottoman Coarse Wares in Cyprus (Ruth Smadar Gabrieli) Bibliography Contributors Index Illustrations