For the first time, there is a comprehensive survey of all this material and a convincing analysis of the Byzantine-Islamic transition in Palestine considered in the longue durée, from the sixth to the eleventh century AD.

Gideon Avni. The Byzantine–Islamic Transition in Palestine: An Archaeological Approach. Oxford University Press, 2014.

From Journal of Islamic Archaeology 2.1 (2015). Review by Denis Genequand, University of Geneva