Seminar for Arabian Studies

Seminar 2007

The 2007 Seminar for Arabian Studies will be held at the British Museum in London from Thursday 19th - Saturday 21st July 2007.

This is supported by the MBI Al Jaber Foundation . Visit their website at: www.mbifoundation.com and read details about their sponsorship at http://www.mbifoundation.com/mbi-foundation-projects/seminar-for-arabian-studies.html

APRIL ANNOUNCEMENT

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

ABSTRACTS

*NEW* View the abstracts for the Posters which have been already offered.

APRIL ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Colleague,

Please (Microsoft Word format, 45 Kb) for a booking form and accommodation information, and for details of the provisional programme for this year’s Seminar, to download (Acrobat pdf file, 109Kb). The conference fee for the three days is £80 or £35 for individual days (the fee for Friends of the British Museum is £45 (£20 per day) and students £20 for three days (£10 per day).

Due to increased pressures on accommodation in London, especially in July, only a limited number of rooms have been reserved this year at Astor College UCL Student Halls of Residence . The cost of bed and breakfast is £36.00 per night. As rooms are limited it is important to book as soon as possible.

For those of you who wish to book your own accommodation in a nearby hotel, you may visit our list of hotels within walking distance of the British Museum.

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is a non-profit making organisation and we do our very best to kept costs to participants as low as possible. As such, the Committee very much regrets that conference fees must be paid by all, including those presenting papers.

Please make sure we have your booking form and payment by 29th of June at the latest. Unfortunately booking fees are non-refundable. Please let us know if you require a letter of invitation or a letter for visa purposes. This will be sent upon completion and return of the attached booking form.

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is keen to encourage individuals that wish to present posters at the Seminar. If you are interested in offering a poster at this year’s Seminar please contact the Secretary at the address above.

*NEW* - please email us this form as soon as possible if you plan to present a poster at the 2007 Seminar. Posters will be placed in screens approximately 1.8m tall and 1m wide so please size your presentation accordingly.

We very much look forward to seeing you at the Seminar in July.

Seminar for Arabian Studies,
The British Museum,
c/o Middle East Department,
Great Russell Street,
London,
WC1B 3DG,
England.
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Seminar for Arabian Studies Steering & Editorial Committee:
Dr Derek Kennet (Chair),
Dr Ardle Mac Mahon (Secretary),
Andrew Thompson (Treasurer),
Dr St. John Simpson (Joint Editor-in-Chief),
Dr Lloyd Weeks (Joint Editor-in-Chief),
Prof. Khaleel Al-Muaikel,
Prof. Alessandra Avanzini,
Dr Mark Beech,
Dr Robert Carter,
Dr Nadia Durrani,
Dr Ricardo Eichmann,
Prof. Clive Holes,
Dr Robert G. Hoyland,
Michael C.A. Macdonald,
Dr Venetia Porter,
Prof Dan Potts,
Prof. Christian Robin &
Prof. Janet Watson.

THE SEMINAR FOR ARABIAN STUDIES
19-21 July 2007

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
All lectures will be held in the Clore Centre within the British Museum , Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG

To download this provisional programme in Acrobat pdf format, please

To read the abstracts for the papers Click here

The Provisional programme is as follows:

THURSDAY 19 JULY 2007

09:00-9:30 - Registration

09:30 - Welcome - Neil MACGREGOR (Director, British Museum, UK)

EASTERN ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Chair: Lloyd WEEKS (University of Nottingham, UK)

09:40 - New research on the Bronze Age cemeteries at Bat, Oman - Manfred BOEHME (Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman) & Gerd WEISGERBER (Deutsches Bergbaumuseum, Bochum, Germany)

10:05 - Wadi Settlement at Northern Oman: Towards a Model for Settlement Quantification - Nasser AL-JAHWARI (University of Durham, UK)

10:30 - Human Behaviour and Ceramic Correlates in SE Arabian Iron Age - Crystal FRITZ (Bryn Mawr College, USA)

10:55-11:30 COFFEE

11:30 - Excavations at Muweilah (Sharjah, UAE) - Peter MAGEE (Bryn Mawr College, USA)

11:55 - Two seasons of research at al-Hamriya. Results of a joint Bryn Mawr College - University of Tubingen research project - Peter MAGEE (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Marc HANDEL (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Don BARBER (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Margaret UERPMANN, (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Hans-Peter UERPMANN, (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Crystal FRITZ (Bryn Mawr College, USA) & Sabah A. JASIM (Director of Antiquities, Sharjah)

12:20 - The Bahrain Burial Mound Project - Steffen LAURSEN (Moesgard Museum, Denmark)

12:45-14:00 LUNCH

YEMENI ARCHAEOLOGY
Chair: Nadia DURRANI (Current World Archaeology, UK)

14:00 - Mapping Incipient Irrigation in Wadi Sana, Hadramawt - Michael HARROWER (University of Toronto, Canada)

14:25 - Ancient Irrigation in Wadi Jirdan, Yemen - Ueli BRUNNER (Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

14:50 - Latest results, new dating and recent evidence for the fortifications of Shabwa (Hadhramawt) - Christian DARLES (Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Toulouse, France)

15:15-15:45 TEA

15:45 - From Prehistoric Landscapes to Urban Sprawl: the Masna'at Maryah region of highland Yemen - Krista LEWIS (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA) & Lamya KHALIDI (Centre Francais d¡¦Archeologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa, Yemen)

16:10 - The complexity of the Peristyle Hall: Remarks on the history of construction based on recent archaeological and epigraphic evidence of the AFSM expedition to the Awam Temple in Marib, Yemen - Zaydoon ZAID (AFSM, USA) & Mohammed MARAQTEN (AFSM, USA)

16:35 - Women's inscriptions recently discovered by the AFSM at the Awam Temple/ Mahram Bilqis in Marib, Yemen - Mohammed MARAQTEN (Orient-Institute, Lebanon)

17:00 - Shalom (Salim) al-Shabazi. (11th Century) as a Yemeni Poet - Yosef TOBI (University of Haifa, Israel)

18:30 - Green Arabia: Climate and Archaeology from Prehistory to the Incense Trade - Tony WILKINSON (University of Durham, UK) . This lecture forms part of the British Museum's Lecture Series. Free to registered attendees of the Seminar.

FRIDAY 20 JULY 2007

DEFINING THE PALAEOLITHIC OF ARABIA
Special session organized by Jeffrey I. ROSE (Oxford Brookes University, UK) & Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University, UK)

09:30 - Demographic confluence and radiation in southern Arabia - Adrian PARKER and Jeffrey I. ROSE (both Oxford Brookes University, UK)

09:50 - Genetics and the southern route of dispersal - Tomas KIVISILD (Cambridge University, UK)

10:10 - Arabia and Out of Africa Connections - Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University, UK)

10:25 - An early Lower Palaeolithic site from central Saudi Arabia - Abdullah ALSHAREKH (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

10:40 - Questions and Discussion - Michael PETRAGLIA (Cambridge University, UK)

10:55-11.25 COFFEE

11:25 - Upper Pleistocene Stone-tools from Sharjah, UAE. Initial Investigations: Interim Report - Julie E. SCOTT-JACKSON (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK), Sarah MILLIKEN (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK), William B. SCOTT-JACKSON (Pitt Rivers Museum, UK) & Jasim A SABAH (Department of Culture & Information, UAE)

11:40 - Barakah: a Middle Palaeolithic Site in Abu Dhabi - Ghanim WAHIDA (Cambridge, UK), Walid YASIN (ADACH, UAE) & Mark BEECH (ADACH, UAE)

11:55 - The Stone Age Sequence of Jebel Faya in the Emirate of Sharjah (UAE) - Hans-Peter UERPMANN (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Margarethe UERPMANN (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Johannes KUTTERER (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Marc HANDEL (Schloss Hohentubingen, Tubingen, Germany), Jasim A SABAH (Department of Culture & Information, UAE) & Anthony MARKS (Southern Methodist University, USA)

12:10 - A Middle Palaeolithic in South Arabia? Levallois and Wa'shah methods from Yemen Remy CRASSARD (CEFAS, Yemen)

12:25 - Crossing the Rift: Technology of the Late, Middle and Upper Pleistocene in East Africa - Anthony E. MARKS (Southern Methodist University, USA)

12:45 - Questions and Discussion - Jeffrey I. ROSE (Oxford Brookes University, UK)

12.55-14:00 LUNCH

THE ARABIAN NEOLITHIC
Chair: Robert CARTER (UK)

14:00 - The Arabian Neolithic Chronology a point of view from Ja'alan Oman - Vincent CHARPENTIER (CNRS, France)

14:25 - Wadi at-Tayyilah 3, a Neolithic settlement on the eastern Yemen Plateau and its archaeofaunal information - Francesco FEDELE (University of Naples, Italy)

14:50 - A Neolithic settlement at Akab (Umm al-Quwayn, United Arab Emirates) - Sophie MERY (CNRS, France) & Vincent CHARPENTIER (CNRS, France)

15:15-15:45 TEA

Please note that from 15.45 until 17.30 there will be a Palaeolithic discussion session in a Room next to the BP lecture theatre.

NORTH WESTERN ARABIA
Chair: Michael MACDONALD (Oxford University, UK)

15:45 - Architecture and stratigraphy in NW-Arabian oasis settlements (2nd millennium BC ¡V 1st millennium AD) - Ricardo EICHMANN (Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Germany)

16:10 - Painted pottery groups in NW Arabia of the late 2nd/early 1st millennia BC - Arnulf HAUSLEITER (Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Germany)

16:35 - Antiquities of Jarash: Asir region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Abdul Kareem Al-Ghamdi (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

17:00 - Sadd al-Khanaq an Early Umayyad Dam Near Medina: Saudi Arabia - Saad AL-RASHID (Saudi Arabia)

18:15 - Reception: Clore Centre, The British Museum

SATURDAY 21 JULY 2007

ANCIENT SEAFARING
Chair: Robert CARTER (UK)

09:30 - Khutba & Khil'a: Networks of mercantile recognition and clientship between Calicut, Aden and Herat - Elizabeth LAMBOURN (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)

09:55 - Indian ships at Moscha and the ancient Indo-Arabian trading circuit - Eivind Heldaas SELAND (University of Bergen, Norway)

EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY & SETTLEMENT
Chairs: Derek KENNET (University of Durham, UK) and Venetia PORTER (The British Museum, UK)

10:20 - The Azd Migrations Reconsidered: Accounts of Malik b. Fahm and 'Amr Muzayqiya in their Historiographic Context - Brian ULRICH (University of Wisconsin, USA)

10:45-11:15 COFFEE

11:15 - Muwatta' as a source for the economic and social history of Medina - Khalifa Mohamed OMER (University of Khartoum, Sudan)

11:40 - A history of the Ziyadids through their coinage (AD 203-442/818-1050) - Audrey PELI (University of Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France)

12:05 - The Pottery of the Red Sea Tihami Coastal Ports in Saudi Arabia: Preliminary Notes - Mohammed AL-THENAYIAN (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)

12:30 - Rediscovery of a Fort: the Qasr al-Hosn of Abu Dhabi - Harald VELDHUIJZEN (Institute of Archaeology, UCL, UK & Prince Research Consultants)

12:55-14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - Zekrit site: settlement patterns during the XIXth century in Qatar. Tribes and territory - Alexandrine GUERIN (Maison de l'Orient et de la mediterranee, France)

14:25 - Towards a comprehensive Catalogue of Islamic Religious Architecture of Yemen - Giovanna Ventrone VASSALLO (Italian Archaeological Mission to Yemen)

14:50 - Wadi Daw'an Project - Salma Samar DAMLUJI & Tracy THOMPSON

15:15-15:45 TEA

15:45 - Gerrhaeans in Marib - A new fragment to a dated text - Norbert Nebes (Universitat Jena, Germany)

RECENT HISTORY AND LINGUISTICS
Chair: Janet WATSON (University of Salford, UK)

16:10 - British Policy in Arabia until the end of the First World War: Internal Disputes - Abd Rauh YACCOB (Islam University of Sultan Sharif Ali, Brunei)

16:35 - Relative clauses in Rijal Alma' dialect (South-west Saudi Arabia) - Yahya ASIRI (University of Salford, UK)

17:00 - The djinn and afarit in the South Arabian society of the last century - Mikhail RODIONOV (Peter-the-Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russia)

The chronology and sedimentology of the Neolithic Graveyard and shell midden complex, Umm al-Qawain (UAQ2), United Arab Emirates. - Helen WALKINGTON and Adrian G. PARKER (both Department of Anthropology and Geography, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK)

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