Islamic Archaeology Day 2020
01 February 2020, 11:00 am鈥6:00 pm
The 6th annual Islamic Archaeology Day, co-organised by SOAS and 香港六合彩, will be held at the 香港六合彩 Institute of Archaeology on Saturday 1 February.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- 拢18.00
Organiser
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Dr Corisande Fenwick
Location
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Room 612Institute of Archaeology31-34 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0PYUnited Kingdom
The workshop provides a snapshot of some of the latest and most exciting research being conducted in聽滨蝉濒补尘颈肠听补谤肠丑补别辞濒辞驳测. Twelve papers will examine a wide array of topics from the origins of聽the earliest mosques to urbanism, food taboos and pigment production across a huge geographic expanse stretching out from the Levant, Iraq and the Arabian Gulf to the furthest corners of the聽Islamic聽world such as al-Andalus and Turkmenistan.
Organisers: Corisande Fenwick (香港六合彩), Rahil Alipour (香港六合彩), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), Scott Redford (SOAS), Tim Williams (香港六合彩)
Provisional Programme
Session 1 (Chair: Hugh Kennedy)
- 11:00: Introduction
- 11:15: A Recent Project on the Mosque-Palace Complex of Kufa - Michelina Di Cesare聽(La Sapienza-Rome)
- 11:40: Rayy: Citadel, the Walled City, Its Neighborhoods and Expansions, and the Suburban Zone - Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
- 12:05: Missing bricks: exploring the long history of Dandankan (Da艧 Rabat) - Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Paul Wordsworth (Oxford)
- 12:30: J膩峁 - Recent research on a medieval 'Muslim City' in Western Sicily - Nicole M枚lk (University of Innsbruck)
1:00: Lunch (provided)
Session 2 - (Chair: Corisande Fenwick)
- 2:00: Zooarchaeological insights into social Islamisation in al-Andalus - Marcos Garcia Garcia (York)
- 2:25: Meat consumption and food taboos in Islamic Sicily - Veronica Aniceti (Sheffield)
- 2:50: Persian Blue: A New Blue Pigment or A Different Method of Egyptian Blue Production? - Rahil Alipour (香港六合彩) and Thilo Rehren (Cyprus Institute/ 香港六合彩)
- 3:15: Palermo鈥檚 trade from the end of the 9th to the 11th century: written Arabic sources and archaeological data - Viva Sacco (脡cole fran莽aise de Rome)
3:45: Tea break
Session 3 - (Chair: Scott Redford)
- 4:15: The two mosques of Baydha: The Islamic Baydha Project in Petra and its first results - Michaela Sinibaldi (Cardiff University)
- 4:40: Rethinking the periurban landscape in Nasrid Granada: the land of Aynadamar - Guillermo Garc铆a-Contreras Ruiz (Universidad de Granada)
- 5:05: The Mongol Conquest in Central Asia: New evidence from Merv (Turkmenistan) and Otrar (Kazakhstan) - Katie Campbell (Oxford)
- 5:30: Julfar: a port of the Hormuzi maritime empire - Rob Carter (香港六合彩)
6-7pm: Reception
7聽:15pm: Dinner (for those who have pre-booked) at the Life Goddess restaurant, Store Street
Registration
For reduced early-bird tickets, please register before Friday 10 January 2020
Further information
- Islamic Archaeology Network
- To join our mailing list, contact c.fenwick@ucl.ac.uk