Corisande Fenwick is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, UK. She is co-editor of The Aghlabids and their Neighbours (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (2020). She co-directs excavations at Bulla Regia, Tunisia and Volubilis, Morocco.

Fenwick’s ‘new perspective’ delivers a concise and erudite overview of an understudied period and region.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsA Note on Arabic and TerminologyIntroduction: The Problem of North Africa.Ch 1. Foundations: Evidence and InterpretationCh 2. From Conquest to Muslim RuleCh 3. CitiesCh 4. The CountrysideCh 5. Economic LifeCh 6. Social LifeEpilogue: North Africa and the Islamic WorldTimelineGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Corisande Fenwick is Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, UK. She is co-editor of The Aghlabids and their Neighbours (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (2020). She co-directs excavations at Bulla Regia, Tunisia and Volubilis, Morocco.

Fenwick’s ‘new perspective’ delivers a concise and erudite overview of an understudied period and region.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsA Note on Arabic and TerminologyIntroduction: The Problem of North Africa.Ch 1. Foundations: Evidence and InterpretationCh 2. From Conquest to Muslim RuleCh 3. CitiesCh 4. The CountrysideCh 5. Economic LifeCh 6. Social LifeEpilogue: North Africa and the Islamic WorldTimelineGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex