- 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
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."
Friday, March 15, 2024
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.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
LAMINE 4. An Armenian Futūh Narrative: Łewond’s Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate
Series Editors: Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner
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The History of the Armenian priest Łewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of Łewond’s text, which describes events that took place during the century and a half following the Prophet Muḥammad’s death in AH 11/632 CE. The authors address Łewond’s account as a work of caliphal history, written in Armenian, from within the Caliphate. As such, this book provides a critical reading of the Caliphate from one of its most significant provinces. Reading notes clarify many aspects of the period covered to make the text understandable to students and specialists alike. Extensive commentary elucidates Łewond’s narrative objectives and situates his History in a broader Near Eastern historiographical context by bringing the text into new conversations with a constellation of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac works that cover the same period. The book thus stresses the multiplicity of voices operating in the Caliphate in this pivotal period of Near Eastern history.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue
Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library: A New Digital Edition of Wright’s Catalogue
Editors: David A. Michelson and William L. Potter
"Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library (SMBL) is a digital enhancement of William Wright's Catalogue of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Museum acquired since the year 1838 (London, 1870-1872), published by Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal in partnership with the British Library as an open access online resource. Using new methods of digital representation, SMBL enables users to engage with the manuscript collection from diverse perspectives, facilitating exploration of the collection according to new and multiple criteria..."
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Open Access Book: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
Title: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
Author: Reynolds, Dwight
Routledge, 2023
ISBN 9780367653613
"The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic, Old Catalan, Castilian, Hebrew, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria..."
Saturday, February 17, 2024
ALEPPO HERITAGE CATALOGUE دليل تراث حلب
Aleppo is probably the world’s oldest continuously inhabited urban centre, and its Old City is among the most important in the eastern Mediterranean region. Partially destroyed, in some quarters razed, the city is threatened by further deterioration and ad hoc reconstruction works. In response to these threats, the Museum for Islamic Art – Berlin State Museums is creating a catalogue documenting the Old City’s most prominent monuments. The built heritage of the city, whose importance is recognized worldwide, is being recorded for posterity and attested to as worthy of preservation in the present. This multifaceted documentation will also provide concrete help with the reconstruction.
The Aleppo Heritage Catalogue is an important part of the Syrian Heritage Archive Project at the Museum for Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum. Since 2017, it has been financed by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Each catalogue entry focuses on the following elements of a major historic building:
- Photos, showing the monument before 2011, based on the digital databank of the “Syrian Heritage Archive Project”
- Reports and materials concerning damage, carried out by the “Aleppo Built Heritage Documentation Project”, being part of the “Syrian Heritage Archive Project” (which is also financed by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
- Art and architectural history of the buildings, written by Aleppine and international researchers and art historians.
- Endowment history: the social history/urban historical background of the structures.
- Memories of Aleppine people in relation to these buildings and its neighbourhoods in the form of texts, voice records and films.
- Detailed drawings and plans of the buildings.
The Aleppo Heritage Catalogue aims to raise awareness. This means communicating with Aleppines and other Syrians about the cultural heritage of their city and country in their mother language, regardless of their political affiliation or economic and social status. Such communication could help launch a discussion among the inhabitants of Aleppo, groups with different interests, and experts. This also entails raising awareness of the Old City’s value, especially as regards its social and historical worth, responsible preservation and reconstruction.
Friday, February 9, 2024
Collection of Ottoman censuses on the website of the Hungarian National Archives
"„Oszmán összeírások gyűjteménye” a Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár honlapján"
by Szepesiné Simon Éva, National a Hungary
The database "Collection of Ottoman censuses", available at Adatbázisok Online of the National Archives of Hungary, provides an insight into the Ottoman period and the struggling daily life of the Ottoman-Hungarian border region. The database, which currently contains some 26 300 records, primarily focuses on income and property records obtained from the Ottoman tax registers (tapu defterleri) covering the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary and makes them accessible to all, but the structure of the database is suitable for displaying all administrative units of the Ottoman Empire in the future. The collection, which offers both easy and quick access and comparative research, is recommended not only for historians, but for those interested in military history or the past of their localities, too."
Ottoman Censuses: https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/collection-of-ottoman-censuses-on-the-website-of-the-hungarian-national-archives/.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
The Kingdom and the Qur’an: Translating the Holy Book of Islam in Saudi Arabia
This book presents a detailed analysis of the translation of the Qur’an in Saudi Arabia, the most important global actor in the promotion, production and dissemination of Qur’an translations.From the first attempts at translation in the mid-twentieth century to more recent state-driven efforts concerned with international impact, The Kingdom and the Qur’an adeptly elucidates the link between contemporary Islamic theology and the advent of modern print culture. It investigates this critical juncture in both Middle Eastern political history and the intellectual evolution of the Muslim world, interweaving literary, socio-historical, and socio-anthropological threads to depict the intricate backdrop of the Saudi ‘Qur'an translation movement’.Mykhaylo Yakubovych provides a comprehensive historical overview of the debates surrounding the translatability of the Qur'an, as well as exploring the impact of the burgeoning translation and dissemination of the holy book upon Wahhabi and Salafi interpretations of Islam. Backed by meticulous research and drawing on a wealth of sources, this work illuminates an essential facet of global Islamic culture and scholarly discourse.
Book Series
- The Global Qur'an vol. 2
- ISSN Print: 2753-8036
- ISSN Digital: 2753-8044
Copyright
Mykhaylo YakubovychPublished On
2024-02-08ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-176-4Hardback978-1-80511-177-1PDF978-1-80511-178-8HTML978-1-80511-181-8EPUB978-1-80511-179-5
Contents
Introduction
(pp. 1–8)
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
5. Translation for Everyone : Collaborative Saudi Publishing Projects in Foreign Languages
(pp. 147–176)
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
Conclusion
(pp. 177–184)
- Mykhaylo Yakubovych
Monday, February 5, 2024
Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024
A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
Download a PDF of the report here.
The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty. In this report, we offer a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces since October 7, 2023. This report is necessarily incomplete. It is very difficult to determine the status of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli bombardment. Current conditions in Gaza, such as the targeting of journalists, frequent communication blackouts, and extensive damage to the built environment pose an immediate threat to safety. Moreover, archivists and librarians have been repeatedly displaced, injured, or killed, making it even more difficult to take stock of the damage to cultural heritage. As a result, it should be assumed that this report represents only a fraction of the extent of damage and death, not a complete picture.
We compile and offer this information with the understanding that the erasure of Palestinian culture and history has long been an Israeli tactic of war and occupation, a means to further limit the self-determination of the Palestinian people. In 1948, during the Nakba, 30,000 books and manuscripts were looted from Palestinian homes; in 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel looted and confiscated the library and archives of the Palestine Liberation Organization; libraries and archives were damaged during the Second Intifada, and have been repeatedly targeted in Gaza. Furthermore, the intentional destruction of cultural heritage has been recognized as a war crime and prosecuted in the International Criminal Court.
This report joins those issued by Heritage for Peace (November 7, 2023), the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (December 6, 2023), the Arab Regional Group at the International Council of Monuments and Sites (January 9, 2024), and others. These reports document the destruction of religious sites, archaeological evidence, cultural institutions, and more. We bring a focus on libraries, archives, and museums as sites of knowledge, community spaces, and repositories of cultural heritage. Irreplaceable historic materials have been lost in the destruction of institutions such as the Central Archives of Gaza City and the Rafah Museum. The destruction of libraries represents the loss of not only book collections, but the efforts of Gaza’s librarians to acquire, care for, and provide access to reading materials, despite Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Finally, we include information about the librarians and archivists who have been killed in the ongoing Israeli bombardment. We mourn the deaths of our colleagues and their families.
February 1, 2024
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Open Access Books from the Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales
Le Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (Cedej) est un centre de recherche pluridisciplinaire, dont les travaux portent principalement sur l’Égypte et le Soudan contemporains. Il publie également, depuis 1990, la revue Égypte/Monde arabe, en ligne sur Revues.org.
Tous les livres
Jeunesses des sociétés arabes
Par-delà les promesses et les menaces
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi et Iman Farag (dir.)2007…L’autoritarisme dans le monde arabe
Autour de Michel Camau et Luis Martinez
Michel Camau et Luis Martinez2005…Entre réforme sociale et mouvement national
Identité et modernisation en Égypte (1882-1962)
Alain Roussillon (dir.)1995…Politiques législatives : Égypte, Tunisie, Algérie, Maroc
Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales1994…Le phénomène de la violence politique : perspectives comparatistes et paradigme égyptien
Baudouin Dupret (dir.)1994…Modernisation et nouvelles formes de mobilisation sociale. Volume II : Égypte-Turquie
Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales1992…Modernisation et nouvelles formes de mobilisation sociale. Volume I : Égypte-Brésil (1970-1989)
Centre d'études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales1991…Études politiques du monde arabe
Approches globales et approches spécifiques
Jean-Claude Vatin (dir.)1991…Nos ancêtres les pharaons...
L’histoire pharaonique et copte dans les manuels scolaires égyptiens
Gérard Coudougnan1988…Islam et dérégulation financière
Banques et sociétés islamiques d’investissement, le cas égyptien
Jean-François Rycx1988…Défense et illustration de l’Égyptienne
Aux débuts d’une expression féminine
Irène Fenoglio-Abd El Aal1988…Samir Mickey Sindbad et les autres
Histoire de la presse enfantine égyptienne
Bertrand Millet1987…L’idéologie par la bande
Héros politiques de France et d’Égypte au miroir de la BD
Fedwa Malti-Douglas et Allan Douglas1987…La lutte contre les stupéfiants en Égypte
Enjeux sociaux d’une répression
Alain Roussillon (dir.)1986…La campagne de contrôle des naissances en Égypte
1980-1981
Marie-Christine Aulas, Hoda Youssef Fahmi et Amira Machhour1982…Essayons d’en rire !
Caricatures publiées dans la presse égyptienne
Ghislaine Alleaume et Farida Gad El-Hakk1982…