Heritage
A selection of reports on the heritage projects we have supported and funded in the field of Islamic Art, Heritage and Culture since we were founded in 1987
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Mustafa Hussain
Trustee Mustafa Hussain has over two decades of financial experience helping clients to plan governance, succession and private wealth structures and solutions. He is Chair of the Board for the Accuro Group and is Managing Director of Accuro's London office. He joined Accuro after working for Taylor Wessing LLP and has worked in London, Singapore, and Kuwait, regularly advising Middle Eastern clients. He brings invaluable financial and banking insight to The Barakat Trust, sitting [...]
Dr Maja Kominko
Director of Projects at HERITΛGE (The Heritage Management Organization), Dr Maja Kominko holds a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of Oxford. A Historian with a decade of academic experience at universities in the UK, Turkey, USA and Sweden, she has a strong record of publications and extensive experience [...]
Ancient Arabia: A New UNESCO Site – A new podcast with Juan De Lara
Join Juan De Lara as he takes us on a tour through the colourful history of Arabia's Qaryat al Faw; a fascinating gem in the desert rich with treasure-laden tombs, iconography of Egyptian goddesses, statues of Greek demigods, and marvellous inscriptions. Listen in as Juan discusses the wonders of [...]
Teaching Islamic Art in Schools – A new podcast with Rizwan Iqbal
Join Rizwan Iqbal as he explores how to get young people excited about Islamic art. Listen as he details the problems faced, solutions he has discovered, and the exciting work he has done as part of our Hands On Islamic Art project, which connects the wider UK to Islamic [...]
The Traditional Architecture of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia encompasses a greater variety of architectural styles than any other country in the Arabian peninsula. The buildings of the coastal, mountain and plains regions are entirely distinctive and local in their character. By contrast, several towns, especially Mecca and Medina, have naturally been directly exposed to foreign architectural [...]
Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Ayyubid dynasty brought unprecedented architectural development to Aleppo, the most important city in medieval Syria. While early Islamic empires usually expressed their grandeur by founding new cities with vast extra-urban palaces, the Ayyubids asserted their power by "modernizing" existing towns. With its large, [...]
Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar's original [...]
The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue
Comprising thirty-one maps at a metric scale of 1:1,250 and a descriptive catalogue, The Monuments of Historic Cairo marks the first time that the city's significant architectural heritage has been mapped in ground plan within the present-day urban context. The work surveys an area of nearly six square kilometers, stretching [...]
Early Persian Painting : Kalila Wa Dimna Manuscripts of the Late 14th Century
"Kalila and Dimna" or "The Fables of Bidpai" is one of the gems of world culture, having been translated through the centuries everywhere from China to Spain. "Kalila and Dimna", like the fables of Aesop or Lafontaine, are subtle and suggestive moral tales - a kind of repository of wisdom [...]
A Survey of Architectural Remains along the Mughal Highway from Agra to Lahore
This study makes use of the primary sources like ancient texts, and medieval chronicles retrieved initially from Indian archives, and studies of archaeological survey of India reports, district and state Gazetteers. Author : Subhash Parihar The publication can be purchase from here : https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9788173053351/Land-Transport-Mughal-India-Agra-Lahore-8173053359/plp