Registration: 6th Islamic Archaeology Day, London, Feb 1 2020

We are delighted to announce the programme for the 6^th annual Islamic Archaeology Day co-hosted by SOAS and UCL and held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on Saturday February 1^st 2020 between 11 and 6pm.

We invite you to register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-archaeology-day-2020-tickets-84251457377.  There is an early-bird registration fee of £12 (£7 for students – limited to 30) for those who register before January 10^th; registration after the 10^th is £18 (£10 for students) so we encourage you to register as soon as possible! Registration will cover a sandwich lunch, refreshments and a wine reception.

There will be a dinner afterwards at the Life Goddess on Store Street for anyone who would like to attend at a cost of £35pp (including 3 courses, plenty of wine and tip) so please indicate on the registration form if you are interested in joining us. We’ll confirm final numbers and the price for the dinner with all those interested in mid-January.

Islamic Archaeology Day 2020 Programme

11-6pm, Saturday, February 1^st 2020

31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY

Session 1 (Chair: Hugh Kennedy)

11:00 Introduction

11:15 A Recent Project on the Mosque-Palace Complex of Kufa

Michelina Di Cesare (La Sapienza-Rome)

11:40 Rayy: Citadel, the Walled City, Its Neighborhoods and Expansions, and the Suburban Zone

Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)

12:05 Missing bricks: exploring the long history of Dandankan (Daş Rabat)

Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Paul Wordsworth (Oxford)

12:30 Jāṭū – Recent research on a medieval ‘Muslim City’ in Western Sicily

Nicole Mölk (University of Innsbruck)

1:00 Lunch (provided)

Session 2 – (Chair: Corisande Fenwick)

2:00 Zooarchaeological insights into social Islamisation in al-Andalus

Marcos Garcia Garcia (York)

2:25 Meat consumption and food taboos in Islamic Sicily

Veronica Aniceti (Sheffield)

2:50 Persian Blue: A New Blue Pigment or A Different Method of Egyptian Blue Production?

Rahil Alipour (UCL) and Thilo Rehren (Cyprus Institute/ UCL)

3:15 Palermo’s trade from the end of the 9th to the 11th century: written Arabic sources and archaeological data

Viva Sacco (École française de Rome)

3:45 Tea break

Session 3 – (Chair: Scott Redford)

4:15 The two mosques of Baydha: The Islamic Baydha Project in Petra and its first results

Michaela Sinibaldi (Cardiff University)

4:40 Rethinking the periurban landscape in Nasrid Granada: the land of Aynadamar

Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz (Universidad de Granada)

5:05 The Mongol Conquest in Central Asia: New evidence from Merv (Turkmenistan) and Otrar (Kazakhstan)

Katie Campbell (Oxford)

5:30 Julfar: a port of the Hormuzi maritime empire

Rob Carter (UCL)

6-7pm Reception in SCR

7 :15pm Dinner (for those who have pre-booked) at the Life Goddess, Store Street

For more information on the Islamic Archaeology Network and its events: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/directory/islamic-archaeology-network