Michael Alram. The Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and the Maria Theresa Thaler as International Currency
Michael Alram Michael Alram is the Director of the Coin Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna and Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on Ancient and Medieval numismatics and monetary history. He extensively worked on the coinage of the Roman Empire, the monetary history of Iran and Central Asia in pre-Islamic times, as well […]
Dr. Petra Sijpesteijn. Did the Early Muslim Empire have a Language Policy?
Petra Sijpesteijn Dr Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic. Her research concentrates on recovering the experiences of Muslims and non-Muslims living under Islamic rule, using the vast stores of radically under-used documents surviving from the early Islamic world. Starting in 2017, she manages an international research project entitled “Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the […]
Palm Tree House in the past
A lecture by Mr. Abdulaziz Saleh al-Shehhi entitled: “Palm Tree House in the past”. The palm tree in the Emirates and the Arabian Gulf has its architectural style, its sense, its beauty and its environment, which are in harmony with it to form a heritage painting that embodies the history of the human being of […]
Dr. Jérémie Schiettecatte. An Archaeological Account of the Settlement Process in Central Arabia (c. 3000 BCE – 1800 CE): Results of the Saudi- French archaeological mission in al-Kharj.
Jérémie Schiettecatte Dr Jérémie Schiettecatte’s current interests lay in the analysis of the evolution of settlement patterns in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa from the Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity. Since 2000, he has been working in Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia. He directed the Saudi-French Archaeological Project in […]
Dr. Rémy Crassard. The Archaeology of Mysterious Gigantic Structures: The “Desert Kites”
Rémy Crassard Dr. Rémy Crassard is an archaeologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He participated in more than 70 archaeological expeditions, in many countries of the Middle East. He is the director of the Globalkites Project, has been teaching at universities in France and abroad, and has extensively published in international […]
Bernard O’Kane. Stars and Symmetry: The Prophet Muhammad’s Name in Architectural Inscriptions
Bernard O’Kane Dr Bernard O’Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at The American University in Cairo, where he has been teaching since 1980. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of several books including The Mosques of Egypt and […]
Dr. Tamer el-Leithy. Converting Objects and Words: Egypt’s Arabization in Five Objects (11th – 14th c.)
Tamer el-Leithy Dr. Tamer el-Leithy is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. He studied Economics in Cairo and worked as an oil company economist. Then, upon reading a historical novel set in medieval Cairo, he discovered a passion for medieval history, which led him back to graduate school to read medieval history in Cairo, then at […]
Ahmad Al-Jallad. The Rise of Arabic: From an Epic Past to an Evidence-based History
Ahmad Al-Jallad Dr Ahmad Al-Jallad, Sofia Chair of Arabic at Ohio State University,USA, is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages and writing systems of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East. He has authored and edited four books and many articles on the early history of Arabic, language classification, North Arabian […]
Trudy Kawami. New Light on the Merchants and Rulers of Dilmun
Trudy Kawami Dr Trudy Kawami is a noted scholar of ancient Near Eastern and Central Asian art. She retired as the director of research at the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation in 2015 and is currently working with the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah on a book on Elamite objects in the collection. She was also the curator […]
R. Michael Feener. Muslim Cultures of a Maritime World: Art and architecture of the Indian Ocean
R. Michael Feener Dr R. Michael Feener is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and an Islamic Centre lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. He is also the head of the Maldives Heritage Survey. Feener was formerly associated with the Asia Research Institute and the […]