HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Publication Record
Abu-Husayn, A. 1999. Duwayhi as a historian of Ottoman Syria. Bulletin
of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies.
. 1999. The Unknown Career of Ahmad Ma'n, 1667-1697.
Archivum Ottomanicum.
El Cheikh, N. M. 1999. Constantinople through Arab eyes: A
mythology. Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic
Literature: Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach, ed. Angelica Neuwirth et
al, 521537. Beirut: Orient Institute.
. 2001. Byzantium through the Islamic prism from the
twelfth to the thirteenth century. The Crusades from the Perspective of
Byzantium and the Muslim World, eds. Angeliki Laiou and Roy P.
Mottahedeh. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks.
El Cheikh, N. M. and G. Hawting. 1999. A book review of The
Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History
(Cambridge University Press, 2000). Bulletin of the Royal Institute for
Inter-Faith Studies 2:190193.
Koistinen, D. 2000. Dissertation summary. Dealing with
deindustrialization: Economics, politics, and policy during the decline of
the New England textile industry, 1920-60. Journal of Economic History.
. 2000. Review of Interpreting NAFTA: The Science
and Art of Political Analysis by Frederick W.
Mayer. Journal of American History.
Meloy, J. 2001. Copper money in late Mamluk Cairo: Chaos or
control? The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
44 (3):293322.
. 2001. Review of Niyabat Tarabulus fi 'Ahd al-Mamalik
by Ilyas al-Qattar. Mamluk Studies
Review 5:202204.
. 2000. Review of The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and
Society, edited by Thomas Philipp and Ulrich Haarmann. International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 32 (2):280282.
. 2000. Review of Frankish Rural Settlement in the
Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by Ronnie Ellenblum. Journal of the
American Oriental Society 120 (2):286288.
. 2000. Review of The Islamic Baths of Palestine by
Martin Dow. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 59 (1):6869.
Sader, H. 1999. Dos inscripciones fenicias del Cerro del
Villar. Cerro del Villar-I. El Asentamiento Fenicio en la Desembocadura
del rio Guadalhorce y su Interaccion con el Hinterland, 144146. Junta de
Andalucia: Consejeria de Cultura.
. 1999. Vom Baal zum Zeus Heliopolitanus. Baalbek von der
Vorgeschichte bis sum spδten Hellenisums. Baalbek. im Bann Rφmischer
Monumentalarchitektur, 4045. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
. 2000. La "route de la mer" en Phenicie. Les
routes du Proche-Orient. Des sejours d'Abraham aux caravanes de l'encens, 6785.
Paris: Le Monde de la Bible-Desclee de Brouwer.
. 2000. Review of Nouvelles Decouvertes sur les Usages
Funeraires des Pheniciens d'Arwad.Paris: Gabalda 1996 by Elayi, J. and
Haykal, M. R. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.
. 2000. Une pointe de fleche inedite du Musee National de
Beyrouth. Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Estudios Fenicios y
Punicos I:271279. Universidad de Cadiz.
. 2001. The Aramaean kingdoms of Syria: Origin and
formation processes. Essays on Syria in the Iron Age. Ancient Near
Eastern Studies 7:6176.
Seeden, H. 2000. Lebanon's archaeological heritage on trial in
Beirut: What future for the capital's past? Heritage Conservation in
Modern Society, One World Archaeology Series 33:168187. New York and
London: Routledge.
Seeden, H. and S. El-Masri. 2000. Michael Meinecke, Islamic
archaeology and Beirut. Damaszener Mitteilungen, 11:391402, 2 plates.
Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
Seikaly, S. M. 1999. Al-Arab: The Arabic press in
Istanbul. Acta Viennensia Ottomanica being the Acts of the 13th CIEPO
Symposium, eds., M. Kohbach, G. Prochazka-Eisl and C. Romer. Wien: Im
Selbstverlag Des Instituts Fur Orientalistik.
. 2000. Christian contributions to the nahda in
Palestine prior to World War I. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for
Inter-Faith Studies 2, ii:4961.
Abstracts, Conferences, and Proceedings
El Cheikh, N. M. June 2000. Arab texts: On women and marriage.
Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
. November 2000. Women and politics: The harem of
al-Muqtadir. Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Koistinen, D. October 1999. Economics, politics, and policy
during the decline of the New England textile industry, 1920-1960. Economic
History Association, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Meloy, J. November 2000. Re-mapping the Mamluk state,
Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Orlando,
Florida, USA.
Sader, H. October 2000. An inscribed Phoenician weight from
Byblos. 5th International Congress on Phoenician and Punic Studies,
Marsala-Palermo, Italy.
Graduate Theses and Projects
Boksmati, N. June 2000. Hellenistic pottery from Beirut: The
evidence from site Bey 020. H. Sader, H. Seeden, and K. Butcher.
Naccash, R. October 2000. Al-Kulliya al-Uthmaniyya: A 19th
century Muslim experiment in modern education. S. Seikaly, N. El-Cheikh, and
J. Meloy.
Saade, M. July 1999. The AUB Beirut Souk excavations
1994-1995: The late Roman Byzantine mosaics in public and private spaces. K.
Butcher, H. Sader, and H. Seeden.
Research Projects
Education and learning in early Ottoman Palestine
Article accepted for publication in a volume on the
subject of education and learning in the Ottoman world to be published by the
Research Centre for Islamic Art, History and Culture, Istanbul. Abu-Husayn,
A.
The long rebellion: The Druzes and the Ottomans, 1516-1697
Research and writing completed, article accepted for
publication in Archivum Ottomanicum. Abu-Husayn, A.
Supported by URB
Completed or in progress at AUB
The view from Istanbul: Lebanon in the Ottoman chancery documents,
1546-1711
Research and writing completed; due to appear as a book in
Fall 2001. Abu-Husayn, A.
Supported by URB
Completed or in progress at AUB
Beirut: Ancient ceramics and socio-economic change
Settlement formation processes; construction of complete
ceramic type-series in Lebanon; investigation of environmental
information. Electronic data recording (involving CAD & GIS
applications) enabled the establishment of a database platform that
facilitates the analyses of the otherwise unwieldy mass of data. Combining
the presently-completed entries for site stratigraphy, ceramics, glass and
coins already shows that this project will provide an unprecedented and
comprehensive understanding of the development of Beirut from the
Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic to Ottoman and Mandate period
times. The results from Beirut also yield substantial new information
about the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean.
Several expert members of the project team are engaged in training AUB
graduates in the latest methodologies of post-excavation analyses. This
will teach them to prepare the excavation results for publication and
presentation to the public, the ultimate aim of all archaeological
excavations.
AUB graduates have completed five MA theses and one PhD dissertation (Free
University Berlin) on material from the AUB Souk excavations. K. Butcher, D.
Perring (PL), T. Williams (PL), S. Jennings, P. Reynolds, and R. Thorpe.
Supported by The Leverhulme Trust (1994-).
Completed or in progress at AUB and York University
Byzantine Leaders in Arabic-Muslim Texts
Forthcoming in Studies in Late Antiquity and Early
Islam, ed. John Haldon (Darwin Press, Princeton). El Cheikh, N. M.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Gender and Politics: The Harem of al-Muqtadir
Forthcoming in Gender and the Transformation of the
Roman World: Women, Men and Eunuchs in Late Antiquity and After, 300-900, CE,
eds. L. Brubaker and Julia Smith (Cambridge University Press). El Cheikh, N.
M.
Completed or in progress at AUB
The political economy of deindustrialization: Business, labor, and
the state during the decline of the New England textile industry, 1920-1960
This project involves revising a recently-completed Ph.D.
dissertation for publication as a historical monograph. The study looks
at the mid-twentieth century disappearance of the New England textile
industry as an example of the decline of traditional manufacturing industries
or "deindustrialization" an increasingly common phenomenon in
developed countries. The project examines the varying responses
to deindustrialization in New England put forward by state and federal government,
regional business associations, and labor unions. Koistinen, D.
The research necessary to complete the project will be funded by the URB
Completed or in progress at AUB
Imperial strategy and political exigency: The spice trade in fifteenth
century Egypt
A re-assessment of the "monopolies" of the
Mamluk Sultan, Barsbay, who ruled Egypt and Syria from 1425 to 1438.
The investigation places the sultan's interventions in the economy in the
context of his attempts to expand the Mamluk state, offering a new
interpretation of these attempts to "monopolize" particular
commercial and industrial activities. Meloy, J.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Mamluks and Meccans
A monograph investigating the political practice of the
Mamluk state by means of an analysis of the political and economic
relationship between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Meccan Sharifate. Meloy, J.
Supported by AUB and Fulbright-Hays
Completed or in progress at AUB
The merits of economic history: Re-reading Maqrizi's Ighathah and
Shudhur
Forthcoming in The Legacy of Maqrizi, ed. L. Guo
and B. Craig. Chicago: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Chicago.
The Rajab Festival of the Mahmal in Cairo in its social context
An article-length investigation of the state-sponsored
Rajab festival of the Mahmal in Cairo in the two contexts of social relations
and conversion to Islam during the Mamluk period. Meloy, J.
Completed or in progress at AUB
Ancient Lebanese toponyms: An essay on the historical topography of
Lebanon in pre-Hellenistic times
This project aims at studying the land occupation and the
settlement density and distribution in Pre-Hellenistic Lebanon. After the
collection of all toponyms attested in primary cuneiform, hieroglyphic and
epigraphic sources, a discussion of the secondary literature related to the
identification and location of these ancient toponyms will follow. On the
basis of above-mentioned data as well as the information available from
surveys and archaeological excavations, we shall attempt to reconstruct the
occupation of the territory, to locate the main centers, to trace ancient
communication routes and to present the results in a series of historical
maps. Sader, H.
Supported by Center for Behavioral Research
Completed or in progress at AUB
The Tell el Burak excavations project
This project aims at studying the formation process of
ancient settlements on the Lebanese coast with special emphasis on the Iron
Age. Its main objective is to try to explain the origin, growth and decay of
these ancient cities, mainly during the period of Phoenician expansion
(9th-6th c. BC). The unprecedented growth and economic expansion of these
sites in the Iron Age was never properly investigated. One of the project's
main purposes is to give AUB archaeology students an opportunity to be
trained in fieldwork. Sader, H. (PL), U. Finkbeiner (PL), and M. Van Ess.
Supported by AUB, Henkel Foundation, and Deutsches Archδologisches Institut
(DAI)
Completed or in progress at AUB, Tuebingen University, and DAI
Reacting to the West
A survey of the reaction of a conservative Muslim
intellectual, Yusuf al-Nabahani, to the ascendancy of the West at the turn of
the twentieth century as reflected in his many, but little known, writings.
Research has been completed and is due to appear in a publication of the
Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesselschaft. Seikaly, S. M.
Transcending religious strife: Nafir Suriyya as medium and message
An analysis of Butrus al-Bustani's pioneering role in
utilizing the press as a medium to disseminate the new message of secularism
as an antidote to the religious strife that tore Mount Lebanon apart in 1860.
Research completed and due to appear in a forthcoming publication of the
Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesselschaft. Seikaly, S. M.
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