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Info: Virtual Museum of the archaeological site Tiahyn Fortress at the Lithuanian Embassy in Kyiv

On 17 October, 2024, at the Lithuanian Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, there was an official launch of the Tiahyn Fortress Virtual Museum dedicated to the important medieval archaeological site and the monument of military architecture (14th-16th centuries CE). This site represents an amalgamation of Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Crimean Tatar Islamic cultural heritage in the territory of Southern Ukraine. More information can be found at  https://www.tiahyn.com/en/main/ 

Location-image-1. Ortho-photo-plan of the Tiahyn Fortress made from an aerial photography image (author: Oleksandr Chubenko in Belyaeva et al. 2018:12)
Location-image-2. Modern visualization of the Tiahyn Fortress (a fragment) (authors: Svitlana Bilyaeva and Natalya Bimbirayte 2024)
About-tyagin-1. Seljuk-style decorative masonry fragment at the north-west corner of the Kutova Tower of the Tiahyn Fortress (author: Bilyaeva et al. 2021:20)
Tiahyn-Fortress_ceramics. Samples of Tiahyn Fortress Sgraffito Ceramics (Bilyaeva et al. 2021:47).
Tiahyn-Fortress-coins. Samples of coins of the Crimean Khanate found at the Tiahyn Fortress. (Bilyaeva et al. 2021:54)
Tiahyn-Fortress_heraldic-graffito. A stone fragment with a heraldic graffito found at the Tiahyn Fortress. (Bilyaeva et al. 2021:53)

6th ḤAJAR ONLINE WORKSHOP

Archaeology and Material Culture
of the Hajj

Friday, October 18th, 2024, 15:45 – 18:30 (CET)

Chairs: Irina Shingiray (Oxford University), Valentina Vezzoli (University of Udine)


CASE STUDIES (30 min each)


Serap Ermis (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Hidden memories. Remembering and forgetting the city of Makkah in the 19th century Ottoman period


Sterenn Le Maguer (University of Lausanne/Archaïos)
Water management on the Hajj road between Kufa and Mecca (Darb Zubaydah), 8th -10th centuries

BREAK 16:45 – 17:00

DISCUSSANTS (15-20 min each)

Harry Munt (University of York)
Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University)

GENERAL DISCUSSION

For registration and Zoom link please write to hajararchaeology@gmail.com before October 16th.

Islamic Archaeology Conference (ISAC) 2024

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 (abarīyah): 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

Islamic archaeology at 14th ICAANE June 2025, Lyon

The Organizing Committee invites all scholars working on subjects related to Near Eastern Islamic Archaeology to participate in the 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), to be held at Lyon 2 University, Lyon, on  2-7 June 2025. 

The session on Islamic Archaeology aims primarily at providing an overview of the results achieved by recent archaeological research. As in past meetings, papers related to the principal themes of the congress are encouraged. Historical synthesis based on archaeological evidence will be particularly welcomed. Simple single-site field reports should be avoided. 

Geographically, the Islamic session will cover the same areas as the main Congress: from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and from Anatolia to Arabia; it will also include Egypt. Historically, the Islamic session can stretch as late as the Ottoman period.

More informations can be found at the 14ICAANE website (https://14icaane.inviteo.fr/). 

Call for papers: Islamic Archaeology Conference 2024

07-09. November 2024

Goethe-University Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany

Islamic Archaeology as a discipline has seen a spectacular growth in complexity and amount of themes in the last two decades. After a long period in which Islamic Archaeology was considered a field of Art History in the Middle Eastern and North African countries, the discipline has found a new life in the 21st century by adopting new perspectives and expanding to new research areas. The materials that constitute its subject of study and the groups of researchers that address it are spread worldwide, and therefore a range of points of view and expectations from different archaeological traditions have been developed. It is a good time now to address this variety in the discipline in search of common trends and interests.

Islamic Archaeology Conference 2024 invites scholars, researchers, and professionals worldwide to participate in a comprehensive exploration of the material culture of the Early and Middle Islamic periods (600-1500 AD) and in analyzing historical narratives and syntheses that the discipline contributes to. This conference aims to provide a platform for contributions from diverse groups of people and for exchanging ideas, methodologies, and discoveries in Islamic archaeology.

We invite submissions on a wide range of topics related to the archaeology of the Islamic world during the 7th to 15th centuries, including but not limited to:

1.  Archaeological Fieldwork: recent archaeological results.

2. Urban and Rural Landscapes: the organization and development of cities and rural settlements.

3. Built Environments: structures, water installations, and architectural elements.

4. Burial and Off-Site Archaeology

5.  Mobile Artifacts: studies on ceramics, metalwork, glass, textiles, and other objects and raw materials.

6.  Trade, Exchange and Networks.

7.  Cultural Interactions.

8.  Methodological and Theoretical Advances: New approaches and technologies in Islamic archaeology.

Submission Guidelines

– Abstracts: Submissions should include a 300-word abstract outlining the research objectives, methodologies, and preliminary findings.

– Formatting: Abstracts should be submitted in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and include a title, author(s) name, affiliation, and contact details.

– Language: The submission language is English.

– Deadline: The deadline for abstract submission is 31. March 2024.

The conference fees for speakers are:

25€ for Professionals

Free for Students

Important Dates

– Abstract submission deadline: 31. March 2024

– Notification of acceptance: 15. May 2024

– Fee payment deadline: 1. July 2024

– Conference dates: 07-09. November 2024

Contact Information

For inquiries and abstract submissions, please contact Abed Taghavi at isac.arc2024@gmail.com and Hagit Nol at h.nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

We look forward to your participation in this exciting and intellectually stimulating event on Islamic Archaeology.

Sincerely,

Conference Organizing Committee

Call for papers: On the Roads of Arabia: Itineraries by Land and Sea (deadline : 17/05/2024)

The inter-university association Routes del’Orient, in partnership with the Institut du Monde Arabe and Archaïos, is organizing an international symposium entitled “On theRoads of Arabia: Itineraries by Land and Sea”, to be held at the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) on the 12th, 13th and 14th December. The aim of the symposium is to study the overland and maritime routes of the Arabian Peninsula and the exchanges they made possible, through archaeology, history, philology, religion and life sciences. This topic will be addressed in the longue durée, from the Bronze Age to the Islamic period. The symposium will also examine the networks of exchanges with border regions such as the Indian subcontinent, the Horn of Africa and Egypt, as well as the empires of the Ancient Near East, and the Greek and Roman empires.

Conditions for submissions:
Deadline: Friday 17th May 2024
Contributions will take the form of a 20-minute lecture followed by 10 minutes of questions. An abstract of no more than 300 words should be sent as an attached file (.docx) to surlesroutesdarabie@gmail.com by
Friday 17th May 2024. This file must also include the full name, email address, status and affiliation of the author(s), the title of the paper and the chosen topic. Papers can be submitted in English or French.
The proceedings of this conference will be published digitally in a special issue of our journal Routes de l’Orient.

In line with the objectives and values of Routes de l’Orient, we strongly encourage young researchers (masters, doctoral and post-doctoral students) to submit their contributions.

Full information on the Call for Papers below:

Post-doc offer: Islamic Archaeology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am MainPost-doc offer

The Institute of Archaeological Sciences at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, seeks to fill in a PostDoc-position in Islamic Archaeology (part-time, 50%, TV-GU-E13) to the next possible date.
The position is for three years with a possible extension after positive evaluation.
We expect from you:
To conduct independent research in the field of Islamic archaeology and to develop your own research project, including the acquisition of third-party funding, with the aim of a Habilitation.
To teach in the BA/MA program in the Institute of Archaeological Sciences one course per year.
To participate in the activities of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences.

Your profile:
You have completed a scientific university degree (diploma/master) as well as a doctorate in one of the following fields: archaeology (with a focus on Islamic archaeology), architectural history/historical building research or Art history (with a focus on Islamic art history) or Islamic
Studies / Islamic Studies (with a focus on Material culture of Islam).
Your doctorate was defended on, or later than, 15.11.2020. You are scientifically active and enthusiastic to support in shaping a new field of research. You have a very good command of English; knowledge of German is advantageous.

To apply:
Please send your application by email until 21.11.23 as a single PDF file (max. 10 MB) to junior professor Dr. Hagit Nol (nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de and arch.institut@uni-frankfurt.de)

The application should include:

  • curriculum vitae,
  • certificates of academic diplomas,
  • list of publications,
  • an outline for a future project or research strategy

Call for Papers: Production, Transmission & Interpretation

An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, History and Archaeology on 14th and 15th March, 2024.

Islamic time begins with the Hijra; the integral responsibilities of every Muslim include the Hajj; and studies of Islamic history have traditionally followed military marches and commercial/cultural corridors that enabled the creation of the great gunpowder empires. More recently, mobility has also been manifested in the Islamic world in the fall of these empires, movement of their materials through loots and repatriations, and voluntary and forced migrations. Until recently, these themes have been predominantly researched divorced from Islam through incongruous positivist lenses and euro-centric canons, and often with underlying colonial agendas.

It is with the aim to intervene within and disrupt this context that the Department of History of Art and the Department of Archaeology at the University of York present Production, Transmission, & Interpretation, a conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, History, and Archaeology. Foregrounding the voices of the historically marginalised, founded in material cultural narratives, and focussed on new sources and methodologies, this conference will bring together the latest research from scholars – doctoral to emeriti – and draw upon a range of cognate disciplines across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, to consider 1400 years of the Islamic world and society.

Submission Guidelines

We welcome abstract submissions intended to culminate into the standard format of 20-minute in-person academic paper presentations and invite applications from across disciplines, including art and architectural history, archaeology, conservation, heritage management, curation, museum studies and cultural studies, on themes that may include:

Islamic heartlands, hinterlands, and frontiers

Art and architecture of mobility, routes, travels, and transfers

Patronage – imperial, sub-imperial, male, female, and non-binary

Agency of architects, artists, and craftspersons

Sources – oral histories, local archives, epigraphy, calligraphy, endangered languages Archaeological material, bioarchaeological approaches, and conservation

Islamic approaches past and present to nature, culture, environment and sustainability

Conflicts, occupations, appropriations and adaptations

Islamic art markets – auctions, ethics, legislations

Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, indicate the target thematic cluster, and be accompanied by the researcher’s name, institutional affiliation and stage of study, location, and a brief biography not exceeding 100 words.

Deadline for proposal submission is 31 December, 2023.

All abstracts should be sent as pdf attachments to hist592@york.ac.uk

If you have any questions, please email Parshati Dutta or Nausheen Hoosein.

Conversations are underway with leading university presses to publish a thematic edited volume of papers presented, therefore please declare if the material has been used before, and if not, whether you would be interested in publishing with us.

CALL FOR PAPERS: GLASS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD

19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft | Ernst Herzfeld Society

Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland, 4-6 July 2024

Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2023
Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2024

Glass is an exceptionally diverse material that has been highly valued ever since its discovery by human beings in the 4th millennium BC. Yet the artistic and cultural-historical significance of the material is still underestimated or even neglected by art historical research. Research on glass art has been given new directions and has been considerably spurred by two international initiatives, the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) and the Association international pour l’histoire du verre (AIHV), both founded in the 1950s.

In the field of Islamic art, glass continues to be one of the less researched media. While glass mosaics, stucco glass windows or blown glass produced in the region aroused the interest of scholars in the emerging disciplines of Islamic archaeology and art history in the 19th and early 20th centuries, its study increasingly lost importance in the course of the 20th century and is now largely confined to specialized circles, even though glass has always played a significant role in the art and architecture of the Islamic world.

This colloquium intends to stimulate the study of glass in the art and architecture of the Islamic world and to ensure that the topic finds a place in the general discourse. By presenting ongoing research, the colloquium will address art-historical, architectural, archaeological, as well as material, technical and socio-cultural aspects.

Full details: https://vitrocentre.ch/call-for-papers-glass-in-the-islamic-world/