Three Open Access Books on the Silk Roads: by UNESCO

 

"The most astonishing innovations and fusions of the world’s religions, beliefs, and material cultures have occurred along the trade and communication networks between Asia, Africa, and Europe, known today as the Silk Roads. The empires and dynasties, fluctuating like ebbs and flows, triggered waves of cultural interchange across time and space, connected by caravans of knowledge and technological transfers crossing vast distances over barren steppes, impenetrable deserts, and unsurmountable ranges. This three-part volume on Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism explores cities and ports from Nanjing to Seville and Karakorum to Mumbai as individual pearls in a long string of historical vicissitudes and cultural exchanges across the overland Silk Roads and maritime Silk Routes." 

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part I: Architectural influences along the Silk Roads

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/JNRQ3162

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 343 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part II: Cities on the overland Silk Roads

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads 

DOI:https://doi.org/10.54678/VMIH5884

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 375 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO 

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part III: Cultural networks and sea ports on the maritime Silk Routes

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/RUOM2593

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 347 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO [14411]

Open Access ebook: Islam and Heritage in Europe

 

"Islam and Heritage in Europe provides a critical investigation of the role of Islam in Europe’s heritage. Focusing on Islam, heritage and Europe, it seeks to productively trouble all of these terms and throw new light on the relationships between them in various urban, national and transnational contexts.

Bringing together international scholars from a range of disciplines, this collection examines heritage-making and Islam in the context of current events in Europe, as well as analysing past developments and future possibilities. Presenting work based on ethnographic, historical and archival research, chapters are concerned with questions of diversity, mobility, decolonisation, translocality, restitution and belonging. By looking at diverse trajectories of people and things, this volume encompasses multiple perspectives on the relationship between Islam and heritage in Europe, including the ways in which it has played out and transformed against the backdrop of the ‘refugee crisis’ and other recent developments, such as debates on decolonising museums or the resurgence of nationalist sentiments.

Islam and Heritage in Europe discusses specific articulations of belonging and non-belonging, and the ways in which they create new avenues for re-thinking Islam and heritage in Europe. This ensures that the book will be of interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of heritage, museums, Islam, Europe, anthropology, archaeology and art history.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (see also http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)."

Islam and Heritage in Europe: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003044789/islam-heritage-europe-katarzyna-puzon-sharon-macdonald-mirjam-shatanawi 

New OA resource: Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online

“Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art. These files are intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen aims to make this material available to public audiences by creating a website with additional resources over the coming months.

Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations, which were kindly (and very swiftly) provided by international experts. We hope these will prove useful to those teaching remotely this fall semester:

Blessing, Patricia.
Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nD2WYLq8vYznG6WzUEl3nHRJFZAeW72U/view?usp=sharing  

Brey, Alexander.
Al-Walid's Baths at Qusayr Amra
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H0Nw2ODGebDZgq951CkobhF0541M0Gx_/view

Bowker, Sam.
The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H0Nw2ODGebDZgq951CkobhF0541M0Gx_/view

Dimmig, Ashley.
Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qQROpe8UpJ8oIhGjwqW7PO8rMqCwLb1e/view

Fetvacı, Emine.
Ottoman Illustrated Histories
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BNsNalx9eXbxN1uMKK4-yHk--3HBga1a/view

Gencer, Yasemin.
İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GAX-MDxc4SxDk0lp6GS1HdcTeEW4z0Qx/view

Göloğlu, Sabiha.
Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā'il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JvdSxGWnsCj_YmPdI9j1UcpzrHVaqlKz/view

Gruber, Christiane and Paroma Chaterjee.
Hagia Sophia, A Conversation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RI73qHUsI48AYqmHAb7g2NFz2TEDnmTd/view
[available online with closed captions here:] https://www.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_2fl08hjn

Gruber, Christiane.
A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad's Mi‘raj https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uFOyWZMELCt2cQIL8pmKi7qFKTp7NVDE/view
[available online with closed captions here:]
https://www.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_h50rjslz

Habibi, Negar.
Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1giUxD1D5RzHpxjmzsWiqdkSZpkv6vRyZ/view

Kana‘an, Ruba.
The Bobrinski Bucket
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vQwD0Z_1qtWLbH_OXg1oFe2hJJMCZIPa/view

Mostafa, Heba.
Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f4Y2jFoIk3yMCui0hjyM6BYZ6yy51gxT/view

Neumeier, Emily.
The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vNecdwvxUZzNtI7W4bX6Ctj2LjYWnAsf/view

O'Kane, Bernard.
The Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10--VNPkmQghYR6REGIalazD3THgu2PcA/view

Parikh, Rachel.
Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu'l Fiqar, ‘Ali's Miraculous Sword
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11O_kCstwJUNF7_-z-Lv2XgHxtBwIHnhd/view

Pruitt, Jennifer.
The Al-Aqmar Mosque
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H6kZnKH3AmJ05jaz494IPwrK6V5Yb8Rs/view

Sardar, Marika.
A Samanid Epigraphic Dish
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gu9NOa8EnOUZ_10cwaSnl4T9cqTr0-4r/view

Sardar, Marika.
The Gwalior Qur'an
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AZ7UWpnlXRvL0BOpDItyWwYr5So1tMn1/view

Seggerman, Alex Dika.
Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Scuplture in Modern Egypt
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mV5iuv2gSZM6XjFjLx2O9deILXzEdc6q/view


Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh.
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmMlnD4sRApusHizW2U3S0-vVp8KmukK/view

Taner, Melis.
Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7k8nN_K7LaJnHignT3OAuVjhjxUI933/view

Wolf, Olivia.
Monumental Mosques in Latin America
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wMde27W4IoPCLxpD5_Ux-YNHcsFx52Bj/view

Khamseen is an ongoing effort and we welcome further contributions on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in creating a multimedia file, please contact Sandy Williams (University of Michigan) at sswill@umich.edu.

Sincerely,

Team Khamseen

Christiane Gruber
Sandy Williams
Yasemin Gencer
Mira Xenia Schwerda
Bihter Esener
Michelle Al-Ferzly
Ani Kalousdian

New OA resource: Syrian Heritage Archive Project

Until now, a general register for Syrian cultural heritage has been lacking. Several Syrian and international initiatives are working together on a compilation of the abundant research data collected over the past decades within the framework of archaeological and art-historical projects, with the content made accessible for research via a national Syrian Heritage register.

In 2013, the Museum of Islamic Art (National Museums in Berlin) and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) started the “Project for the Establishment of a Digital Heritage Register for Syria”/“Projekt zur Erstellung digitaler Kulturgüterregister für Syrien”. This original name was soon replaced by a shorter English version: “Syrian Heritage Archive Project”, commonly abbreviated as SyrHer or SHAP. From the very beginning, the project was funded by the Cultural Preservation Program maintained by the German Foreign Office.

This website is the responsibility of the subteam of the Museum of Islamic Art.

A detailed documentation of Syria’s cultural heritage provides a basis for recording damage and destruction from the war and for possible future reconstruction measures. The awareness of a common cultural heritage may become an important component for national reconciliation processes in the future.

Website: https://project.syrian-heritage.org/en/. 

Cairo Gazetteer : un thesaurus pour l'identification des monuments du Caire

Cairo Gazetteer : un thesaurus pour l'identification des monuments du Caire

Au XIX^e siècle, le voyage au Caire, deuxième ville après Rome pour l’exceptionnelle concentration de ses monuments, faisait partie du « grand tour » de nombreux artistes et architectes. Avec les édifices andalous et persans, l’architecture du Caire médiéval occupe une place centrale dans la découverte de l’art islamique. Les institutions patrimoniales européennes conservent ainsi des collections d’œuvres graphiques et photographiques de très grande valeur, dont l’intérêt est à la fois scientifique, artistique et, en raison de la disparition progressive de ce patrimoine architectural, historique. Ces fonds rassemblent parfois la seule documentation encore subsistante sur des édifices disparus, très dégradés ou radicalement transformés. Ces collections riches, variées et au caractère souvent unique restent cependant à peu près invisibles et inexploitées faute d’une indexation appropriée. Ce type de corpus soulève des difficultés particulières de traitement en matière d’identification et d’indexation, en raison des multiples variantes issues de la translittération, en caractères latins, des toponymes arabes. Il existe en effet de très nombreuses disparités dans l’orthographe des noms des monuments et cette « cacographie » demeure problématique pour le traitement documentaire et l’interopérabilité des données. Le laboratoire InVisu a donc établi un référentiel sur les monuments du Caire, sous la forme d’une table de concordance qui recense les variantes orthographiques des toponymes, et qui permet d’identifier, de décrire et de localiser les 600 édifices classés du Caire. Les monuments ont été localisés dans la base de données géographiques GeoNames (plus de 400 monuments créés), ce qui a permis de générer leurs coordonnées géographiques et d’exposer une partie des données de ce référentiel dans le Linked Open Data. Le projet Cairo Gazetteer vise la mise à disposition, au niveau de la communauté européenne des humanités numériques, de l’intégralité de ce référentiel en le publiant au format SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System).

À chaque monument correspond un concept SKOS (skos:Concept), identifié par un URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). Ce référentiel est multilingue : des termes préférentiels (skos:prefLabel) sont associés au concept en arabe (skos:prefLabel@ar) et en français (forme courante, skos:prefLabel@fr). Des langues « virtuelles » ont été créées pour les translittérations normalisées : ISO 233-2 (1993) (skos:prefLabel@ISO), et ALA-LC de l’American Library Association-Library of Congress (skos:preflabel@ALA). Les variantes des toponymes sont décrites comme des termes alternatifs (skos:altLabel@MUL) avec le code ISO MUL pour « multiple langages ». Ces variantes sont également identifiées par des URI afin de pouvoir indiquer leur source bibliographique dans une note éditoriale. La typologie du monument est exprimée par la relation à un terme générique (skos:broader), défini dans un thésaurus sur l’architecture, en français, en anglais et en arabe, aligné sur les référentiels de data.bnf, de la Library of Congress et du Getty. Le monument est associé (skos:relatedMatch) à son fondateur (en lien avec les ressources de data.bnf, de la Library of Congress, de DBpedia, de VIAF et de l’ISNI) et à son quartier (en lien avec GeoNames). Le référentiel propose aussi un alignement (skos:exactMatch, skos:closeMatch) avec data.bnf, les Subject Headings de la Library of Congress, DBpedia, VIAF et GeoNames. Une notice descriptive (skos:definition) en français, en anglais et en arabe mentionne la date de construction, la localisation (adresse et coordonnées géographiques), le numéro d’inventaire, et indique s’il existe des risques de confusion avec d’autres monuments.

Ce référentiel propose une solution innovante pour le traitement des multiples variantes issues de la translittération des toponymes arabes. Il répond aux besoins d’une large communauté scientifique transdisciplinaire, en offrant aux historiens, historiens de l'art, architectes, restaurateurs, conservateurs, bibliothécaires et iconographes, un outil pour l’identification, l’indexation et la valorisation de fonds iconographiques et textuels relatifs aux monuments du Caire.

Le projet Cairo Gazetteer a été retenu comme contribution de la France à l'infrastructure européenne de recherche Dariah. Il a permis la création et l’enrichissement d’une soixantaine de notices d’autorités géographiques dans le catalogue de la BnF, pour l’indexation du fonds du photographe Beniamino Facchinelli (actif au Caire de 1876 à 1895), traité en collaboration avec le département des Estampes et de la Photographie. Il va également servir à l’indexation de l’intégralité des travaux du Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe, qui vont être mis à disposition sur le portail Persée dans le cadre du projet Athar, lauréat de l’appel à projet BSN5.

Termes de premier niveau

• abreuvoir
• aqueduc (architecture)
• archives nationales (architecture)
• caravansérail (funduq)
• caravansérail (wikālaẗ)
• carreau
• citadelle
• citerne (architecture)
• cour
• cuisine
• école coranique
• église
• fontaine publique
• grotte
• hammam
• hippodrome
• hôpital
• hôtel de la Monnaie (architecture)
• immeuble
• iwan
• khan
• khanqah
• madrasa
• maison (bayt)
• maison (manzil)
• mausolée (qubbaẗ)
• mausolée (turbaẗ)
• minaret
• mosquée (ǧāmiʿ)
• mosquée (masǧid)
• moulin
• mur de ville (architecture)
• nilomètre (architecture)
• palais
• passage voûté
• portail
• porte de ville
• puits
• ribat
• rue couverte
• sabil-kuttab
• sakieh
• sanctuaire musulman
• tekke
• tombeau
• tour
• zaouïa

Open Access Journal: Belleten

Belleten
ISSN 0041-4255

Belleten, Türk Tarih Kurumu tarafından, Ocak 1937'den bu yana dört ayda bir Türkçe olarak yayımlanmakta olan, dil ve tarih konulu makalelere yer veren bir dergidir.
Dergi, 1910'da yayınlanmaya başlayan Tarih-i Osmani Encümeni mecmuasının devamıdır. 1931'de 101. sayısından sonra Türk Tarih Encümeni Mecmuası olarak adı değişen dergi, 1937'de Belleten adını almıştır. Türkiye'nin en eski dergilerden biri olan Belleten, Latin alfabesi ile yayınlanan ilk tarih dergisidir. [Source: Vikipedi, özgür ansiklopedi]

286 Cilt: LXXIX-Sayı: 286-Yıl: 2015 Aralık	285 Cilt: LXXIX-Sayı: 285-Yıl: 2015 Ağustos
284 Cilt: LXXIX-Sayı: 284-Yıl: 2015 Nisan	283 Cilt: LXXVIII-Sayı: 283-Yıl: 2014 Aralık
282 Cilt: LXXVIII-Sayı: 282-Yıl: 2014 Ağustos	281 Cilt: LXXVIII-Sayı: 281-Yıl: 2014 Nisan
280 Cilt: LXXVII-Sayı: 280-Yıl: 2013 Aralık	279 Cilt: LXXVII-Sayı: 279-Yıl: 2013 Ağustos
278 Cilt: LXXVII-Sayı: 278-Yıl: 2013 Nisan	277 Cilt: LXXVI-Sayı: 277-Yıl: 2012 Aralık

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New from the Oriental Institute: The Mosaics of Khirbet el-Mafjar: Hisham's Palace

The Mosaics of Khirbet el-Mafjar: Hisham's Palace

by Hamdan Taha and Donald Whitcomb

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This is a presentation of beautiful colored mosaics. They originate from buildings in the oasis of Jericho and all date from the first half of the eighth century, during the time of Umayyad caliphate of the early Islamic period. Many visitors have had the privilege of seeing the mosaics revealed, but no one has experienced the impact of all these pavements since they were first excavated in the 1930s and 1940s. A few have been published, but the presentation in Hamilton and Grabar (Khirbat al Mafjar: An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley, 1959) is only very fine aquarelle paintings from the originals.

In 2010 the Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage uncovered, cleaned, and assessed the state of conservation of these mosaics. A series of high-quality digital photographs was prepared by a team from the Department, composed of M. Diab, N. Khatib, Said Ghazal, Rafaat Sharaia, and I. Hamdan, under the direction of H. Taha, from which the present selection is offered for study and appreciation of this triumph in early Islamic art. These images speak for themselves.

• Oriental Institute Miscellaneous Publication
• Chicago: The Oriental Institute; Ramallah: Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, 2015
• ISBN 978-1-61491-004-6
• Pp. 128; 156 color illustrations
• Hardcover, 11.00 x 10.75”
• $59.95

For an up to date list of all Oriental Institute publications available online see:

The Oriental Institute Open Access Publications

Ernst Herzfeld Papers from The Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Islamic Art

Ernst Herzfeld Papers from The Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Islamic Art – First Series Online

"Ernst Emil Herzfeld (1879-1948) was a German archaeologist, philologist, geographer and historian in the field of Near Eastern Studies. A formidable figure in Central European scholarship during the early twentieth century, his major contributions include archaeological excavations at Samarra (Iraq), Pasargadae, Persepolis and Kuh-i Khwaja (Iran); architectural surveys of Damascus, Northern Syria, and Mesopotamia; mapping of remote regions in Kurdistan (Iraq and Iran); and recording and publishing architectural inscriptions in Arabic and Middle Persian.

The Ernst Herzfeld Papers housed in the Metropolitan Museum are divided between the Department of Islamic Art and the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art. The museum’s holdings consist of several thousand items from Herzfeld's archives, including photograph negatives, photographs, original drawings and paintings, clippings, correspondence, maps, sketchbooks, notebooks, squeezes and manuscripts of scholarly work. These materials span Herzfeld’s professional career from his collegiate studies in Berlin (1899-1902) to his residence as a senior scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1936-1944). Items document both original findings and synthetic research pertaining to sites and monuments in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, India and Egypt. While representing only part of his archive, the Metropolitan Museum's holdings are integral to understanding Herzfeld's scholarly career.
"

The digitization of the Herzfeld Papers in the Department of Islamic Art is a work in progress/ Metropolitan Museum of Art  welcomes feedback on the online content from users.

Open Access Journal: Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology (JJHA) - المجلة الأردنية للتاريخ والآثار

Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology (JJHA) -  المجلة الأردنية للتاريخ والآثار
ISSN: 1996-9546

 

Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology (JJHA) is an International Quarterly, Refereed Research Journal. It is concerned with publishing refereed scientific papers by local and international authors. Issued quarterly, the journal sets itself to publishing original topics whose scientific and practical value is concerned with history and archaeology. Manuscripts are published mainly in Arabic or English. However, other languages approved by the Editorial Board may be considered as well. Submitted papers are evaluated anonymously by specialists in their field.

2013

Vol 7, No 1 (2013)

2012

Vol 6, No 4 (2012)

Vol 6, No 3 (2012)

Vol 6, No 2 (2012)

Vol 6, No 1 (2012)

2011

Vol 5, No 4 (2011)

Vol 5, No 3 (2011)

Vol 5, No 2 (2011)

Vol 5, No 1 (2011)

2010

Vol 4, No 4 (2010)

Vol 4, No 3 (2010)

Vol 4, No 2 (2010)

Vol 4, No 1 (2010)

2009

Vol 3, No 3 (2009)

Vol 3, No 2 (2009)

Vol 3, No 1 (2009)

2008

Vol 2, No 3 (2008)

Vol 2, No 2 (2008)

Vol 2, No 1 (2008)

2007

Vol 1, No 1 (2007)

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Jerusalem Virtual Library: The Academic Database on Historic Jerusalem

Jerusalem Virtual Library: The Academic Database on Historic Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Library, initiated in 2001 by Prof. Sari Nusseibah, President of Al-Quds University and Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is meant to be a comprehensive resource for the history of Jerusalem. The library, hosted together by the two universities, enables free access to digitized historical materials and primary sources about Jerusalem. The collections are based on the archives of the Jewish National Library, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the collections of al-Quds University.
To date, most of the historical sources are kept in national, religious, municipal and private archives and are not accessible to all. Physical and non-tangible barriers prevent potential readers, in Jerusalem and elsewhere from exploring the vast and complicated history of the city. The virtual library is meant to overcome these barriers
The Library makes use of innovative content-oriented IT tools and enables a more convenient, home-based search in the documents themselves. The biggest part of the collections are books, maps, photographs, engravings and inscriptions published for the first time before the beginning of the 20th century.
The material is scanned, OCR'd and thoroughly indexed. The indexing was carried out by a group of Palestinian and Israeli students who were supervised by specialists specializing in Classical Languages, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Geography History and Christianity,
The basic idea of the library is to enable the user to retrieve indexed extracts of various fields. Efforts were made to include topics such as gender, feelings, various stages in life, love, war, hatred, inter-community relations and other topics which are usually not included in traditional indexes. These features will enable the Library users to directly access historical data, thus eliminating the external narrator or historian as the interpreter of history.
Creating such an academic unbiased approach to the history of Jerusalem is a challenging task for while Jerusalem is the contested capital of two peoples, it is also a spiritual center for each of the world's three monotheistic religions and a universal symbol of hope and holiness. Through the Library, Jerusalem will be made accessible not only to its own residents and the countries that shoulder responsibility for its future, but to the entire world.

Monuments of Syria

Monuments of Syria: A Window on Syria's Past by Ross Burns

This website is a visual introduction to the writer’s two books on the history and archaeology of Syria. Few countries can match Syria in the richness of its historical remains. In the zone west of Aleppo, for example, over 600 Byzantine-era villages survive, often with multiple churches with walls up to their rooflines. There is practically no era not represented in Syria. Palmyra, the great caravan city at the westernmost point of the Silk Road, still slumbers in the desert, its beautifully carved limestone as crisp and dramatic as 2000 years ago. Magnificent reminders of the folly of past confrontations, including the Crusades, survive in the great fortifications that are scattered across the country — the Krak des Chevaliers; the great Islamic citadel that crowns Aleppo; the refuges of the ‘Assassins’ hidden away in the coastal mountains; or the Damascus Citadel that sustained the long Muslim resistance to the Crusades. Not to be overlooked are the many mosques and madrasas, often tucked away quietly in backstreets or buried within the busy suqs (markets) of the major centres.

Those familiar with the extraordinary variety of Syria’s remains are invited to leave their own tips and requests in the Suggestion Box. The task of maintaining an updated store of information on recent research is an unending challenge given the hundreds of sites of historical interest and the continuing research of Syrian and foreign teams. Suggestions will be taken into account in future editions of the works already published or posted to guide other visitors. The Suggestion Box also provides an opportunity for Syrians and others with a passion for the country’s past to post photos or sketches.

• Home
• The Author
• Places (with Index)
• Updates
• Suggestion Box
• Workbook
• Atlas

And see also:

Monuments of Syria Photostream 

This Flickr site brings together a large number of photographs of archaeological sites in both Syria and Southeast Turkey. The site gives a sample of the archive of 70,000 photos taken over the last 40 years which [the author] hopes to make available to a wider audience. In case of further inquiries, a mailbox is available either through Flickr or here.

Open Access Journal: AFAQ ATHERYA (Archaeological Horizons) آفاق أثرية

AFAQ ATHERYA (Archaeological Horizons) آفاق أثرية

صحيفة آفاق أثرية هي مشروع ثقافي ليبي يسعى إلى نشر الثقافة التاريخية والأثرية بين أفراد المجتمع، كما أنها تسعى إلى التعريف بالآثار الليبية على وجه الخصوص لنشر الوعي الأثري بين الناس حتى يسهموا في حماية الآثار بعد الإحساس بقيمتها، لاسيما أن الآثار تتعرض حالياً للإهمال والتدمير.

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April +May

2012
تحميل العدد Download issue 10

عدد شهر يونيو

June

2012
تحميل العدد Download issue 11

عدد شهر يوليو و أغسطس

July + August

2012
 

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

Society for Iranian Archaeology Online

Society for Iranian Archaeology                                                                              جامعه باستان شناسی ایران 

 

«جامعه باستان شناسی ایران» نهادی علمی- تخصصی، حرفه ای و غیرسیاسی است که با هدف ارتقای دانش باستان شناسی، حمایت از باستان شناسان و توسعه ی دانش باستان شناسی در ایران فعالیت می کند. همگرایی برای تقویت تئوری ها، روش ها و گسترش دامنه آگاهی­های باستان شناختی در مورد ایران در سطح ملی و بین المللی و بروز رسانی اطلاعات باستان شناختی اعضا، از طریق فراهم کردن زمینه ها در دنیای مجازی و برگزاری همایش ها و گردهمایی های دوره ای، پشتیبانی از انجام پژوهش ها و انتشارت علمی از دیگر اهداف این بنیاد است. 

«جامعه»، بنیادی غیر دولتی است. تخصص، تجربه و تلاش (برای جوانان علاقه مند) در یکی از زمینه های مربوط به باستان شناسی در گستره ی ایران و یا فرهنگ های مرتبط با ایران، شرط اصلی عضویت در آن است. هر یک از اعضا با درخواست عضویت در ابتدا تعهد می نمایند که منافع جمعی جامعه باستان شناسی ایران را بر منافع فردی ترجیح دهند. کسب منافع فردی مادامیکه مستقل باشد یا به مبانی و بقای جامعه لطمه نزند بلامانع خواهد بود.

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Open Access Islamic Art and Architecture: Discover Islamic Art

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Great Arab Revolt Project

Great Arab Revolt Project

The Great Arab Revolt Project (GARP) is planned as a ten-year project to investigate First World War archaeology in Jordan and develop new heritage sites for visitors. In contrast to the Western Front, where considerable fieldwork has taken place, First World War remains in Jordan have never been systematically investigated. These remains have particular interest for four reasons:

• they are associated with the exploits and legend of Lawrence of Arabia, an iconic historical and cultural figure in the English-speaking world
• they represent a struggle that was central to the creation of the states and conflicts of the modern Middle East
• they represent the archaeological imprint of a distinctive type of irregular or guerrilla warfare which has been of huge historical importance over the last 90 years
• they offer a range of military landscapes, sites and artefact assemblages, and a range of memories, associations and modern significances, which contrast with the more familiar archaeology, commemoration and tourism of the Western Front

Our aim, working closely with Jordanian colleagues and local communities, is to catalogue the visible remains (buildings and earthworks), to carry out surveys and trial excavations at a representative sample of sites, to record oral histories and folk memories, and to develop one or more sites for effective public presentation.