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Contents: 1) New perspectives on Minaean expiatory texts (Alessio
Agostini); 2) Investigating an early Islamic landscape on Kuwait
Bay: the archaeology of historical Kadhima (Andrew Blair, Derek
Kennet & Sultan al-Duwish); 3) The early settlement of HD-5 at
Ras al- add, Sultanate of Oman (fourth-third millennium BCE)
(Federico Borgi, Elena Maini, Maurizio Cattani & Maurizio
Tosi); 4) Known and unknown archaeological monuments in the Dumat
al-Jandal oasis in Saudi Arabia: a review (Guillaume Charloux); 5)
Prehistory and palaeo-geography of the coastal fringes of the
Wahiba Sands and Bar al-Hikman, Sultanate of Oman (Vincent
Charpentier, Jean-Francois Berger, Remy Crassard, Marc Lacaze &
Gourguen Davtian); 6) Unlocking the Early Bronze Age: attempting to
extract Umm an-Nar tombs from a remotely sensed Hafit dataset
(poster) (William Deadman); 7) Iron Age impact on a Bronze Age
archaeological landscape: results from the Italian Mission to Oman
excavations at Salut, Sultanate of Oman (Michele Degli Esposti
& Carl Phillips); 8) Late Palaeolithic core-reduction
strategies in Dhofar, Oman (Yamandu Hilbert, Jeffrey Rose &
Richard Roberts); 9) Reflexions sur les formes de l'ecrit a l'aube
de l'Islam (Frederic Imbert); 10) Getting to the bottom of Zabid:
the Canadian Archaeological Mission in Yemen, 1982-2011 (Edward J.
Keall); 11) New perspectives on regional and interregional obsidian
circulation in prehistoric and early historic Arabia (Lamya
Khalidi, Krista Lewis & Bernard Gratuze); 12) The
Saudi-Italian-French Archaeological Mission at Dumat al-Jandal
(ancient Adumatu). A first relative chronological sequence for
Dumat al-Jandal. Architecture and pottery (Romolo Loreto); 13)
Excavation at the 'Tree of Life' site (Mohammed Redha Ebrahim Hasan
Mearaj); 14) The origin of the third-millennium BC fine grey wares
found in eastern Arabia (S. Mery, R. Besenval, M.J. Blackman &
A. Didier); 15) Building H at Mleiha: new evidence of the late
pre-Islamic period D phase (PIR.D) in the Oman peninsula (second to
mid-third century AD) (M. Mouton, M. Tengberg, V. Bernard, S. Le
Maguer, A. Reddy, D. Soulie, M. Le Grand & J. Goy); 16) An
overview of archaeology and heritage in Qatar (Sultan Muhesen,
Faisal al-Naimi & Ingolf Thuesen); 17) The construction of
Medina's earliest city walls: defence and symbol (Harry Munt); 18)
Landscape signatures and seabed characterization in the marine
environment of north-west Qatar (poster) (Faisal al-Naimi, Richard
Cuttler, Ibrahim Ismail Alhaidous, Lucie Dingwall, Garry Momber,
Sadd al-Naimi, Paul Breeze & Ahmed Ali al-Kawari); 19) Towards
an annotated corpus of Soqotri oral literature: the 2010 fieldwork
season (Vitaly Naumkin, Leonid Kogan & Dmitry Cherkashin
(Moscow); A mad Isa al-Darhi & Isa Guman al-Darhi (Soqotra,
Yemen); 20) Palace, mosque, and tomb at al-Ruway ah, Qatar (Andrew
Petersen & Tony Grey); 21) The origin and development of the
oasis landscape of al- Ain (UAE) (Timothy Power & Peter
Sheehan); 22) Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess
(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia
(Alessia Prioletta); 23) Archaeological excavations at the
settlement of al-Furay ah (Freiha), north-west Qatar (Gareth Rees,
Faysal al-Naimi, Tobias Richter, Agnieszka Bystron & Alan
Walmsley); 24) The 2010-2011 excavation season at al-Zubarah,
north-west Qatar (poster) (Tobias Richter, Faisal Abdulla al-Naimi,
Lisa Yeomans, Michael House, Tom Collie, Pernille Bangsgaard
Jensen, Sandra Rosendahl, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley); 25)
The Great Mosque of Qalhat rediscovered. Main results of the
2008-2010 excavations at Qalhat, Oman (Axelle Rougeulle, Thomas
Creissen & Vincent Bernard); 26) A new stone tool assemblage
revisited: reconsidering the 'Aterian' in Arabia (Eleanor M.L.
Scerri); 27) Egyptian cultural impact on north-west Arabia in the
second and first millennia BC (Gunnar Sperveslage & Ricardo
Eichmann); 28) The Neolithic site FAY-NE15 in the central region of
the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE) (Margarethe Uerpmann, Roland de
Beauclair, Marc Handel, Adelina Kutterer, Elisabeth Noack &
Hans-Peter Uerpmann); 29) Ka imah remembered: historical traditions
of an early Islamic settlement by Kuwait Bay (Brian Ulrich); 30)
Yemeni opposition to Ottoman rule: an overview (Abdol Rauh Yaccob).
Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists: Changing
patterns of travel to the Middle East from medieval to modern times
comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the
biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in
Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which
together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to
travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.
As in previous ASTENE volumes, the material presented ranges
widely, from Ancient Egyptian sites through medieval pilgrims to
tourists and other travellers of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The papers embody a number of different traditions,
including not only actual but also fictional travel experiences, as
well as pilgrimage or missionary narratives reflecting quests for
spiritual wisdom as well as geographical knowledge. They also
reflect the shifting political and cultural relations between
Europe and the Near and Middle East, and between the different
religions of the area, as seen and described by travellers both
from within and from outside the region over the centuries. The men
and women travellers discussed travelled for a wide variety of
reasons — religious, commercial, military, diplomatic, or
sometimes even just for a holiday! — but whatever their primary
motivations, they were almost always also inspired by a sense of
curiosity about peoples and places less familiar than their own. By
recording their experiences, whether in words or in art, they have
greatly contributed to our understanding of what has shaped the
world we live in. As Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest of medieval
Arab travellers, wrote: ‘Travelling — it leaves you speechless,
then turns you into a storyteller!’
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 41 2011,
Papers from the forty-fourth meeting, held at the British Museum,
London, 22–24 July 2010. Contents: 1) Some observations on women
in Omani sources (Olga Andriyanova); 2) Archaeological landscape
characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic
analysis, 2009 to 2010 (Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttler & Paul
Collins); 3) Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and
lures (poster) (Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi); 4) The
distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains
of South Arabia during the Himyarite period (Julien Charbonnier);
5) Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and
geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary
population dynamics in Qatar (Richard Cuttler, Emma Tetlow &
Faisal al-Naimi); 6) Les fortifications de Khor Rorī –
‘Sumhuram’ (poster) (Christian Darles); 7) Places of contact,
spheres of interaction. The Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf
area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah
(Dawsāriyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Philipp Drechsler0;
8) khushub musannadah (Qurān 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian
ms3nd (Orhan Elmaz); 9) Walled structures and settlement patterns
in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) (Roman Garba
& Peter Farrington);10) The wall and talus at Barāqish,
ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy (Francesco
G. Fedele); 11) Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to
Oman (Hilal al-Hajri); 12) Quantified analysis of long-term
settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula (Nasser Said
al-Jahwari); 13) Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba
and DMT – New research by the German Archaeological Institute in
Ethiopia (Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen & Mike
Schnelle); 14) The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic
settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) (Derek Kennet,
Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich & Sultan M. al-Duwīsh); 15)
Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period (Sterenn Le
Maguer); 16) A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for
archaeological research in northern Qatar (Phillip G. Macumber);
17) Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ras
al-Hamrā, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) (Lapo Gianni Marcucci,
Francesco Genchi, Émilie Badel & Maurizio Tosi); 18)
Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfār (al-Nudūd
and al-Matāf), Ras al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the
auger-hole survey (poster) (Mike Morley, Robert Carter &
Christian Velde); 19) Conserving and contextualizing national
cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubārah
and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusāsiyyah, Qatar (poster) (Helen
Moulden, Richard Cuttler & Shane Kelleher); 20) Reassessing
Wādī Debayan (Wādī al-Dabayān): an important Early Holocene
Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) (Faisal
al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttler & Hatem Arrock);
21) Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in
northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date
presses (Andrew Petersen); 22) Relations between southern Arabia
and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC
(David W. Phillipson); 23) Bayt Bin Ātī in the Qattārah oasis: a
prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis
landscape of al-Ain, UAE (Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan); 24)
The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid
synchronism (Alessia Prioletta); 25) Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf)
and its Early Islamic inscriptions (Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid);
26) Investigations in al-Zubārah hinterland at Murayr and
al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) (Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter
& Alan Walmsley); 27) Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and
shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubārah
(Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley); 28)
Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt (Mikhail
Rodionov); 29) A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal
town in the Gulf (poster); 30) Solaiman Abd al-Rahmān al-Theeb,
New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sīj in the region
of al-Ulā, Saudi Arabia (Abdulla Al-Sulaiti); 31) Al-Zubārah
Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – a
master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation
(poster) (Ingolf Thuesen & Moritz Kinzel); 32) Oman and Bahrain
in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians’ Arabian periphery (Brian
Ulrich); 33) From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb
of Imām al-Mahdī MuΉammad in al-Mawāhib: locating architectural
icons and migratory craftsmen (Nancy Um); 34) Drummers of the Najd:
musical practices from Wādī al-Dawāsir, Saudi Arabia (Lisa
Urkevich); 35) The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early
ninth-century CE Shipwreck (Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric
Staples & Alessandro Ghidoni); 36) Lateral fricatives and
lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (Janet C.E.
Watson & Munira Al-Azraqi).
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international academic
forum that meets annually for the presentation of research in the
humanities on the Arabian Peninsula. It focuses on the fields of
archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history,
language, linguistics, literature, and numismatics from the
earliest times to the present day. A wide range of original and
stimulating papers presented at the Seminar is published in the
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies and reflects the
dynamism and scope of the interdisciplinary event. The Proceedings
present the cutting edge of new research on Arabia and include
reports of new discoveries in the Peninsula. They are published
each spring in time for the subsequent Seminar, which is held in
July. The main foci of the Seminar in 2015, in descending order of
the number of papers presented in each session were North Arabia,
South Arabia and Aksum, Archaeological Survey and Field Methods,
Bronze and Iron Ages in Eastern Arabia, Islamic Archaeology, and
Neolithic Archaeology. In addition, there were sessions on Recent
Cultural History in Arabia, and Heritage Management in Arabia, as
well as a special session on the Nabataean world titled 'Beyond the
"rose-red" city: the hinterland of Petra and Nabatean rural sites',
which featured a total of six papers. This volume also includes
notes in memoriam on Professor Andrzej Zaborski (1942-2014),
Professor Ordinarius at the Jagellonian University of Cracow, who
specialized in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, Semitic and Cushitic in
particular.
Volume Contents: The Qatar National Historic Environment Record: a
bespoke cultural resource management tool and the wider
implications for heritage management within the region (Rebecca
Beardmore et al.); Preliminary pottery study: Murwab horizon in
progress, ninth century AD, Qatar (Alexandrine Guérin);
Excavations and survey at al-Ruwaydah, a late Islamic site in
northern Qatar (Andrew Petersen & Tony Grey); Al-Zubārah and
its hinterland, north Qatar: excavations and survey, spring 2009
(Alan Walmsley et al.); A possible Upper Palaeolithic and Early
Holocene flint scatter at Ra's Ushayriq, western Qatar (Faisal
Abdulla Al-Naimi et al.); The dhow’s last redoubt? Vestiges of
wooden boatbuilding traditions in Yemen (Dionisius A. Agius et
al.); Building materials in South Arabian inscriptions:
observations on some problems concerning the study of architectural
lexicography (Alessio Agostini); Conflation of celestial and
physical topographies in the Omani decorated mihrāb (Soumyen
Bandyopadhyay); Al-Balīd ship timbers: preliminary overview and
comparisons (Luca Belfioretti & Tom Vosmer); Fouilles
Masāfī-3 en 2009 (Émirat de Fujayrah, Émirats Arabes Unis):
premières observations propos d’un espace cultuel de
l’Âge du Fer nouvellement découvert en Arabie orientale (Anne
Benoist); First investigations at the Wādī al-Ayn tombs, Oman
(poster) (Manfred Böhme); Glass bangles of al-Shīhr, Hadramawt
(fourteenth–nineteenth centuries), a corpus of new data for the
understanding of glass bangle manufacture in Yemen (Stéphanie
Boulogne & Claire Hardy-Guilbert); L’emploi du bois dans
l’architecture du Yémen antique (Christian Darles); Once more on
the interpretation of mtl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new
expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna) (Serge A.
Frantsouzoff); New evidence on the use of implements in al-Madām
area, Sharjah, UAE (Alejandro Gallego López); The first three
campaigns (2007-2009) of the survey at Ādam (Sultanate of Oman)
(Jessica Giraud et al.); A new approach to central Omani prehistory
(Reto Jagher & Christine Pümpin); Umm an-Nar settlement in the
Wādī Andam (Sultanate of Oman) (Nasser al-Jahwari & Derek
Kennet); Mapping Masna at Māryah: using GIS to reconstruct the
development of a multi-period site in the highlands of Yemen
(Krista Lewis et al.); Written Mahri, Mahri fusha and their
implications for early historical Arabic (Samuel Liebhaber); How
difficult is it to dedicate a statue? A new approach to some Sabaic
inscriptions from Mahrib (Anne Multhoff); The semantic structure of
motion verbs in the dialect of Zabīd (Yemen) (Samia Naïm);
Preliminary results of the Dhofar archaeological survey (Lynne S.
Newton & Juris Zarins); An early MIS3 wet phase at palaeolake
Κaqabah: preliminary interpretation of the multi-proxy record (Ash
Parton et al.); South Arabian inscriptions from the Farasān
Islands (Saudi Arabia) (Solène Marion de Procé & Carl
Phillips); The ‘River Aftan’: an old caravan/trade route along
Wādī al-Sahbām (Nabiel Y. Al Shaikh & Claire Reeler); The
Wādī Sūq pottery: a typological study of the pottery assemblage
at Hili 8 (UAE) (Sabrina Righetti & Serge Cleuziou); A Βarf
talisman from Ghayl Bā Wazīr, Hadramawt (Mikhail Rodionov); The
Qalhāt Project: new research at the medieval harbour site of
Qalhāt, Oman (2008) (Axelle Rougeulle); Irrigation management in
pre-Islamic South Arabia according to the epigraphic evidence
(Peter Stein); A detective story: emphatics in Mehri (Janet C.E.
Watson & Alex Bellem); Shell mounds of the Farasān Islands,
Saudi Arabia (M.G.M. Williams); The Almaqah temple of Meqaber
Ga'ewa near Wuqro (Tigray, Ethiopia) (Pawel Wolf & Ulrike
Nowotnick).
Contents: V.M. Azzar , Domestic architecture at the Early
Bronze Age sites HD–6 and RJ–2 (JaΚalān, Sultanate of Oman);
Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels & Antoine Zazzo,
Prehistoric camels in south-eastern Arabia: the discovery of a new
site in Abu Dhabi’s Western Region, United Arab Emirates;
Mohammed Ali Al-Belushi & Ali Tigani ElMahi, Archaeological
investigations in Shenah, Sultanate of Oman; Lucia Benediková
& Peter Barta, A Bronze Age settlement at al-KhiΡr, Failakah
Island, Kuwait; Olivier Brunet, Bronze and Iron Age carnelian bead
production in the UAE and Armenia: new perspectives; Ingo Buchmann,
Tobias Schröder & Paul Yule, Documentation and visualisation
of archaeological sites in Yemen: an antique relief wall in Zafār
(poster); Fabio Cavulli, Emanuela Cristiani & Simona Scaruffi,
Techno-functional analysis at the fishing settlement of KHB–1
(RaΜs al-Khabbah, JaΚalān, Sultanate of Oman); Julien
Charbonnier, Dams in the western mountains of Yemen: a Дimyarite
model of water management; Christian Darles, Les monolithes dans
l’architecture monumentale de l’Arabie du Sud antique; Daniel
Eddisford & Carl Phillips, Kalbā in the third millennium
(Emirate of Sharjah, UAE); Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, Yemen: religion,
magic, and Jews; Francesco G. Fedele, Sabaean animal economy and
household consumption at Yalā, eastern Khawlān al-Кiyāl, Yemen;
Serge A. Frantsouzoff, The status of sacred pastures according to
Sabaic inscriptions; Jessica Giraud & Serge Cleuziou, Funerary
landscape as part of the social landscape and its perceptions: 3000
Early Bronze Age burials in the eastern JaΜlān (Sultanate of
Oman); Alexandrine Guérin & Faysal al-NaΜimi, Territory and
settlement patterns during the Abbasid period (ninth century AD):
the village of Murwab (Qatar); Mária Hajnalová, Zora Miklíková
& Tereza Belanová- tolcová, Environmental research at
al-KhiΡr, Failakah Island, Kuwait; Hani Hayajneh, Ancient North
Arabian–Nabataean bilingual inscriptions from southern Jordan;
Marco Iamoni, The Iron Age ceramic tradition in the Gulf: a
re-evaluation from the Omani perspective; Manfred Kropp, “People
of powerful South Arabian kings” or just “people of their kind
we annihilated before”? Proper noun or common noun in QurΜān
44:37 and 50:14; Johannes Kutterer & Sabah A. Jasim, First
report on the copper-smelting site HLO-1 in Wādī al-Hilo, UAE;
Romolo Loreto, House and household: a contextual approach to the
study of South Arabian domestic architecture. A case study from
seventh- to sixth-century BC Yalā/ad-Durayb; Louise Martin, Joy
McCorriston & Rémy Crassard, Early Arabian pastoralism at
Manayzah in Wādī Сanā, Hadramawt; Giovanni Mazzini &
Alexandra Porter, Stela BM 102600=CIH 611 in the British Museum:
water regulation between two bordering estates; Anne Multhoff, “A
parallel to the Second Commandment…” revisited; Khudooma
al-NaΜimi, The discovery of insect remains associated with a
Bronze Age tomb in the United Arab Emirates: a preliminary study
(poster); Andrew Petersen, Islamic urbanism in eastern Arabia: the
case of the al-ΚAyn–al-Buraymī oasis; Valeria Fiorani
Piacentini & Christian Velde, The battle of Julfār (880/1475);
Alexandra Porter, Rebecca Stacey & Brendan Derham, The function
of ceramic jar Type 4100: a preliminary organic residue analysis;
C.N. Reeler, N.Y. Al-Shaikh & D.T. Potts, An historical
cartographic study of the Yabrīn oasis, Saudi Arabia; Katrien
Rutten, South-east Arabian pottery at ed-Dur (al-Dūr), Umm
al-Qaiwayn, UAE: its origin, distribution, and role in the local
economy; Abdulrahman al-Salimi, The Wajīhids of Oman.
The Proceedings of Red Sea Project III held in the British Museum,
London, in October 2006. Contents: 1) Environment, landscapes and
archaeology of the Yemeni Tihamah (R. Neil Munro and Tony J.
Wilkinson); 2) The formation of a southern Red Sea seascape in the
Late Prehistoric Period: Tracing cross-Red Sea culture-contact,
interaction, and maritime communities along the Tihamah coastal
plain, Yemen, in the third to first millennium BC (Lamya Khalidi);
3) Products from the Read Sea at Petra in the Medieval Period
(Stephan G Schmid and Jacqueline Studer); 4) Continuing studies of
plants and animals and their Arabic names from the Royal Danish
Expedition to the Red Sea, 1761-1763 (F. Nigel Hepper); 5) Coral
reef conservation and the current status of reefs of the Ras
Mohamed National Park in the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqabah
(Steve McMellor and David J Smith); 6) How fast is fast?
Technology, trade and speed under sail in the Roman Red Sea (Julian
Whitewright); 7) Warships in the Red Sea, An Outstanding Phenomenon
(Sarah Arenson); 8) Features of Ships and Boats in the Indian Ocean
(Norbert Weismann); 9) Decorative Motifs on Red Sea Boats: Meaning
and Identity (Dionisius A. Agius); 10) The Red Sea Jalbah. Local
Phenomenon or Regional Prototype? (James Edgar Taylor); 11)
Charting a Hazardous Sea (Sarah Searight); Red Sea Harbours,
Hinterlands and Relationships in Preclassical Antiquity (Kenneth A.
Kitchen); 12) Sea port to punt: new evidence from Marsa Gawasis,
Red Sea (Egypt) (Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich and Cheryl
Ward); 13) The Arabaegypti Ichthyophagi: Cultural Connections with
Egypt and the Maintenance of Identity (Ross Iain Thomas); 14) Aila
and Clysma: The Rise of Northern Ports in the Red Sea in Late
Antiquity (Walter Ward); 15) Shipwrecks, Coffee and Canals: the
Landscapes of Suez (Janet Starkey); 16) What is the Evidence for
External Trading Contacts on the East African coast in the first
millennium bc? (Paul J.J. Sinclair); 17) The 'Arabians' of
pre-Islamic Egypt (Tim Power); 18) Red Sea and Indian Ocean: Ports
and their Hinterland (Eivind Heldaas Seland); 19) Bishops and
Traders: The Role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the
Roman Period (Roberta Tomber); 20) Arabic Sources for the Ming
Voyages (Paul Lunde); 21) From the White Sea to the Red Sea: Piri
Reis and the Ottoman conquest of Egypt (Paul Starkey).
The Seminar for Arabian Studies has come a long way since 1968 when
it was first convened, yet it remains the principal international
academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. This is
clearly reflected in the ever-increasing number of researchers from
all over the world who come each year to the three-day Seminar to
present and discuss their latest research and fieldwork. The
Seminar has covered, and continues to cover, an extensive range of
diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology,
architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language,
linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more, from the
earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political
and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire
(1922/1923). Papers presented at the Seminar have all been
subjected to an intensive review process before they are accepted
for publication in the Proceedings. The rigorous nature of the
reviews undertaken by a range of specialists ensures that the
highest academic standards are maintained. A supplementary volume,
'Languages, scripts and their uses in ancient North Arabia' edited
by M.C.A. Macdonald (ISBN 9781784918996, Archaeopress, 2018), is
also available containing the proceedings from the special session
held during the seminar on 5 August 2017.
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international
academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First
convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the
study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers
from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork
and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of
diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology,
architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language,
linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides,
from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of
political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman
Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an
ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe
to attend. In 2016 the fiftieth meeting took place, in which sixty
papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum,
where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002. The
Seminar also regularly hosts a special session focusing on a
specific aspect of the Humanities on the Arabian Peninsula,
enabling a range of experts to present their research to a wider
audience. In 2016 this special session was entitled 'Textiles and
Personal Adornment in the Arabian Peninsula', which provided a
fascinating overview of research on dress, textiles, and adornment
in the Middle East.
This collection of around twenty papers has its origins in a
two-day seminar organised by the Association for the Study of
Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction with the
Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden,
Edinburgh (RBGE), with additional support from Cornucopia magazine
and the Turkish Consulate General, Edinburgh. This
multi-disciplinary event formed part of the Ottoman Horizons
festival held in Edinburgh in 2017 and attracted a wide range of
participants from around the world, including several from Turkey
and other parts of the Middle East. This splendidly illustrated
book focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former
Ottoman Empire - including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt,
the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula - as seen and described by
travellers both from within and from outside the region. The papers
cover a wide variety of subjects, including Ottoman garden design
and architecture; the flora of the region, especially bulbs and
their cultural significance; literary, pictorial and photographic
depictions of the botany and horticulture of the Ottoman lands;
floral and related motifs in Ottoman art; culinary and medicinal
aspects of the botanical heritage; and efforts related to
conservation.
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