Nakba Day Anniversary, 2024: Archives, Libraries, Memory and Narrative

Please take a look at the post published published by Global Studies at Columbia University Libraries on today's anniversary of Nakba :

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2024/05/14/nakba-day-anniversary-2024-archives-libraries-memory-and-narrative/

The post reminds us of the ongoing horrific loss of Palestinian lives but focuses on systemic attacks on Palestinian libraries, museums, archives, cultural and heritage institutions.  

Short bibliographies of selected resources are available in each of these four sections: 

• 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

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

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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