7-9 November, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Thursday, 7.11.24
12:30-14:00 registration
Keynotes: what is Islamic archaeology?
14:00-15:30 Mahmoud Hawari, “Islamic Archaeology: A Personal Perspective”, chair: Karel Nováček
15:30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:30 Andrew Petersen, “What is Islamic about Islamic Archaeology?”, chair: Bekim Agai
Friday, 8.11.24
8:30-10:00 Architecture and daily life (a), chair: Axel Filges
Exploring the Archaeology of Consumption in the Islamic World (ca. 600-1500 CE) (Joanita Vroom)
The Tableware of the Abbasids: Palace B at Raqqa and Its Surroundings (Alastair Northedge)
Innovation and Adaptation: Art, Craft, and Architecture in Early Islamic Jerusalem (Barak Monnickendam-Givon, Yasmin Szanto, Tehila Sadiel, Ortal Chalaf, Michael Chernin & Ariel Shatil)
Discussion (30 min)
10:00-10.30 coffee break
10:30-12:30 Architecture and daily life (b), chair: Michael Würz
Stones in Motion: Spolia in the Old city of Cairo (Mustafa Tupev)
Ayyubid or Mamluk: On the Dating and Functioning of the Domed Buildings (Muqabab) in Palestine from the Middle Islamic Period (Abed Matani)
Discussion (20 min)
Settlements and Settlement Patterns (a), chair: Alan Walmsley
Fruitful Discrepancies? – Integrated Historical and Archaeological Research into Settlement Processes (Martina Müller-Wiener)
Adapting to Change: Archaeological Insights and Sea Level Fluctuations in the Southern Caspian Sea during the Islamic to Ilkhanid Periods (Mohammad Ghamari Fatideh)
Discussion (20 min)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-15:30 Settlements and Settlement Patterns (b), Chair: Anja Klöckner
Semi-Sedentary Lifestyle in the Zagros Mountains during the Islamic Period: New Evidence from Kohgilouyeh (SW Iran) (Ahmad Azadi & Andrea Ricci)
Retailing in Eleventh Century Tiberias (Ṭabarīyah): Between Resilience and Abatement (Shulamit Miller)
After the Nabataeans: Petra’s Rural Landscape in the Islamic Period in View of New Data (Catreena Hamarneh, Sahar Khasawneh & Nizar Abu-Jaber)
Discussion (30 min)
15:30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:30 Trade, Economy, and Networks (a), chair: Fleur Kemmers
From Village to the World – Some Elements for Defining International Trade in the Early Abbasid Period, Qatar (Alexandrine Guérin)
Exploring the Social Fabric of Early Islamic Numismatics (Jonathan Ouellet)
Islam, Trade, and Khazar Cultural Cosmopolitanism in Eastern Ukraine (9th-10th centuries) (Irina Shingiray)
Discussion (30 min)
17:30-18:00 coffee break
18:00-19:00 Trade, Economy, and Networks (b), chair: Nick Gestrich
The Rural Territory of Córdoba in the Umayyad Period (8th-10th c.): Economic Resources, Distribution Networks and Interrelations with Other Territories (Elena Salinas, Marina González & Fulgencio Cánovas)
The Medjerda Valley (Tunisia): Ceramic Production and Exchange Networks in Late Antique and Medieval North Africa (Heike Möller, Veronica Occari, Moheddine Chaouali, Corisande Fenwick & Philipp von Rummel)
Discussion (20 min)
Saturday, 9.11.24
8:30-10:00 The Arabian Peninsula, chair: Ute Kelp
Beyond the Surface: New Perspectives on the Occupation History of the City of Qurh (al-Mabiyat) during the Early – Middle Islamic Periods (Friedrich Weigel, Mustafa Ahmad, Stefanie Janke & Arnulf Hausleiter)
An Umayyad/Abbasid Elite Residence in Northwest Arabia: New Excavations on the Early Islamic Monumental Building of Dadan (Alexia Rosak, Jérôme Rohmer, Julie Monchamp, Hervé Monchot, Elora Chambraud, Fabien Lesguer & Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani)
Jumeirah Research Project – Preliminary Results of the Study on the Abbasid Settlement in the UAE (Karol Juchniewicz, Agnieszka Lic, Mansur Boreik & Hassan Zein)
The Islamic Mining Sites Project: Excavations in al-Maʿmalah and al-ʿAblāʾ, Southwest Saudi Arabia (Abdullah Alzahrani)
10:00-10:30 coffee break
10:30-12:00 East Africa, chair: Sepideh Maziar
Revealing Islamic Funerary Practices in Medieval Ethiopia (10th-16th Century): New Inputs from the ERC Project HornEast’s Fieldwork (Simon Dorso)
First Archaeological Insight from Fedis: Preliminary Survey Results from a Medieval Islamic Settlement Site in Eastern Ethiopia (Hussien Endris, Meftuh S. Abubaker & Habir Mohammed)
Iran
Archaeology of the Ancient Mining and Smelting in the Central Part of Tabas Country, on the Edge of Loot Desert (Hassan Hashemi Zarjabad, Abed Taghavi & Zabihollah Masoudi)
Herat and Its Hinterland from the 9th/10th to the Late 15th Century (Ute Franke)
12:00-13:30 lunch break
13:30-15:00 Central Asia, chair: Dirk Wicke
New Archaeological Data from the City of Bukhara during the Samanid and Qarakhanid Periods (9th – early 13th century) (Sören W. Stark, Asan I. Torgoev, Jamal K. Mirzaakhmedov, Siroj J. Mirzaakhmedov & Vikentiy A. Parshuto)
Iraqi Kurdistan
Landscape Dynamics in the Middle Tigris Region from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Periods – Insights from the EHAS and ReLand Surveys (Mustafa Ahmad & Paola Sconzo)
Material Culture and Settlement Patterns in Northern Iraq during the Middle Islamic Period (11th – 15th cent.). Results from the Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (Valentina Vezzoli)
From Beyond the Grave: Reconstructing the Historical and Social Context of a Micro-Region in Light of a Cemetery Site (Fruzsina Alexandra Németh)
15:00-15:30 coffee break
15:30-17:00 Egypt, chair: Nadja Aboulenein
Arabic-Muslim Graffiti and the Archaeology of a Monastic Site: Dayr Anba Hadra at Aswan in Upper Egypt (Ralph Bodenstein)
Early Islamic Cemetery on Kom el-Dikka in Egyptian Alexandria: Testing the Revised Chronology in the Field (Robert Mahler & Magdalena Ostrowska)
The Levant
The hinterland of Petra in the Islamic Period: Recent Results from a Survey of the Late Petra Project (Micaela Sinibaldi)
Field F103 Revisited: A New Analysis of the ‘Abbasid Family Qasr Complex at al-Humayma, Southern Jordan (Ian W.N. Jones)
17:00-17:30 coffee break
17:30-19:00 The Levant, chair: José C. Carvajal López
The Ceramic Repertoire of Ayyubid Jerusalem Reconsidered: Local Production, Regional Exchange, and Typo-Chronology in Light of Recent Research (Benjamin Dolinka)
The Iberian Peninsula
Excavating and Interpreting Country Estates: Research at al-Rummaniya (Córdoba) and Monteagudo (Murcia) (Felix Arnold & Julio Navarro Palazón)
Ruined Houses in a Deserted Andalusi City: Madîna Balaghî (Pla d’Almatà, Balaguer, Spain) (Guillem Alcolea, Helena Kirchner, Carme Alòs, Eva Solanes, Marta Monjo & María Isabel Molina)
Manurqa: Rural Islamic Medieval Archaeology on the Balearic Island of Menorca, Spain (Amalia Pérez-Juez, Alexander Smith & Kathleen Forste)
19:30 speakers’ dinner
Sunday, 10.11.24
10:00-12:00 Assembly meeting
Address:
Casino building, Campus Westend, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1, Frankfurt am Main
Fees (to be paid at the registration desk):
- € 25 for speakers and/or non-speakers for the whole conference
- € 10 for non-speakers for a single conference day (more than two sessions)
- € 5 for non-speakers for 1 to 2 sessions
- free for BA to PhD students
Registration for non-speakers: until 20.10.24 at isac.arc2024@gmail.com