- 1948 Nakba: Refugees, Destroyed Villages and Erasure of Historic Palestine (focus on maps and atlases including visual maps, land surveys and local histories);
- Destruction and Pillage of Palestinian Cultural Heritage, archives and libraries since 1948;
- Oral Histories;
- Literary and Cinema related select resources
Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Nakba Day Anniversary, 2024: Archives, Libraries, Memory and Narrative
Monday, May 6, 2024
Newly Open Access Journal: Getty Research Journal
The Getty Research Journal is an open-access publication presenting peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods.
The journal is published through Getty’s Quire software and freely available in web, PDF, and e-book formats. Topics often relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests, although this is not a requirement for consideration. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. We encourage topics and cultural perspectives that remain marginalized in art history and related fields, as well as work by scholars of underrepresented backgrounds.
Previously available via subscription, the Getty Research Journal converted to a diamond open-access publication with the spring 2024 (no. 19) issue. Past issues (nos. 1–18) are available via subscription from Project MUSE while an evaluation is underway to determine the feasibility of making them freely available.
Past issues by subscription at Muse: Past IssuesGetty Research Journal, No. 19
2024
Table of Contents
- Editor’s Note
Doris Chon- Northern Africa or Central Iran? An Investigation into the Production Place of a Fragmentary Kufic Qur'an at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Mahdi Sahragard- Cuttings from an Illustrated Twelfth-Century French Manuscript Bible in Los Angeles and Berlin
Beatrice Alai and Peter Kidd- Jane Dieulafoy in Varamin: The Emamzadeh Yahya through a Nineteenth-Century Lens
Keelan Overton- Baghdad Kept on Working: Painting and Propaganda during the British Occupation of Iraq, 1941–45
Anneka Lenssen- Overthrowing Reality: Photo-Poems in 1980s German Democratic Republic Samizdat
Anna Horakova and Isotta Poggi- The Perpetual Unfolding of Photographic History: A Previously Unknown Panorama of Salvador, Bahia, by Rodolpho Lindemann
Julieta Pestarino
Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia
his volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background.
The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been almost entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.Contents
1. Introduction
(pp. 1–14)
- Geoffrey Khan
2. The Arabic Documents from Qaṣr Ibrīm
(pp. 15–48)
- Geoffrey Khan
3. The Correspondence with Eparchs
(pp. 49–128)
- Geoffrey Khan
4. Other Correspondence and Accounts
(pp. 129–144)
- Geoffrey Khan
5. Legal Documents
(pp. 145–184)
- Geoffrey Khan
6. Coinage
(pp. 185–192)
- Geoffrey Khan
7. Taxes
(pp. 193–194)
- Geoffrey Khan
8. Lists of Commodities
(pp. 195–204)
- Geoffrey Khan
9. Titles of Officials
(pp. 205–234)
- Geoffrey Khan
10. Slaves and Servants
(pp. 235–252)
- Geoffrey Khan
- Geoffrey Khan
12. Script and Layout
(pp. 263–276)
- Geoffrey Khan
13. Language
(pp. 277–284)
- Geoffrey Khan
14. Maps
(pp. 285–286)
- Geoffrey Khan
Contributors
Geoffrey Khan
(author)Book Series
- Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 24
- ISSN Print: 2632-6906
- ISSN Digital: 2632-6914
Copyright
Geoffrey KhanPublished On
2024-05-06ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-230-3Hardback978-1-80511-231-0PDF978-1-80511-232-7Language
- English
Print Length
854 pages (xiv+840)Dimensions
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Digital archive : Middle East Women’s Activism
"Middle East Women’s Activism digital archive is a collection of interviews with 96 women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which form the basis of a monograph, entitled, Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. All interviews were conducted by Nicola Pratt, University of Warwick, in 2013-2014 as part of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship exploring the relationship between gender and geopolitics in the context of the Middle East."
Monday, April 15, 2024
AMBULO (Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online)
AMBULO (Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online
"AMBULO" Project (acronym of Arabic Manuscripts in the Bologna University Library Online) is promoted by the King Abdulaziz Chair for Islamic Studies – University of Bologna. The project is carried out under the supervision of Prof. Ahmad Addous, and coordinated by Dr. Valentina Sagaria Rossi. "AMBULO" has actually started in September 2017 and it envisages the revaluation of one of the most important and richest collections of Arabic manuscripts hosted in a public library in Italy: the Oriental Manuscripts Fund of the University"
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Persian Manuscript Materials
"This website is dedicated to the study of the material technology of Persian manuscripts. Our goal is to investigate the intricate materials utilized in historical Persian manuscripts, shedding light on the methods and techniques derived from historical recipes mainly between the Taimurid to Qajar dynasties of Persia (15th-19th centuries).
Accompanied by images captured during the reconstruction process following the historical recipes, we aim to provide an immersive exploration into the material heritage of Persian manuscripts."