Newly Open Access Journal: Getty Research 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.

Getty 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

• Go to issue

Past issues by subscription at Muse: Past Issues

 

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Geoffrey Khan 

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

11. The Socio-Economic Situation Reflected by the Documents

(pp. 253–262)

• 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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0391

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2024-05-06

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-230-3

Hardback978-1-80511-231-0

PDF978-1-80511-232-7

Language

• English

Print Length

854 pages (xiv+840)

Dimensions

 

OPEN ISLAMICATE TEXTS INITIATIVE

"Funded through two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Phase One of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) is the first undertaking of its kind to tackle the technical and organizational barriers that historically have stymied the development of Arabic-script OCR and digital text production for Islamicate Studies.

OpenITI AOCP is led by an interdisciplinary team of humanities, computer science, and digital humanities co-principal investigators from Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are proud to partner with the SHARIAsource project of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the eScripta project of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres for the technical development portion of the project.

The primary technical goal of the first phase of OpenITI AOCP is to achieve ≥97% character accuracy rates (CARs) for OCR on the most used Persian and Arabic print typefaces. 

The second major deliverable of OpenITI AOCP is an open-source and user-friendly digital text production pipeline for Persian and Arabic texts."

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."

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"

Persian Manuscript Materials

 

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."

Ibn Gabirol Digital Project

Ibn Gabirol Digital Project

This project endeavours to provide a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of Ibn Gabirol, an 11th-century Jewish philosopher from Andalusia. Within this framework, both his biographical details and philosophical writings are examined on this website through the use of multiple digital methodologies. Categorized under the domain of Digital Humanities, the project aims to expand the accessibility of Ibn Gabirol's philosophical ideas to a broader audience. By adopting this multifaceted approach, the project aims to offer a comprehensive and scholarly view of Ibn Gabirol's life and works, enriching both contemporary and future scholarship in the realm of philosophy.

The project is sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

Visit the User Manual for detailed instructions to improve your experience.

User Manual