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- Category: Latest news
- Congratulations New Grantee – Romolo Loreto
- Congratulations New Grantee – Konstantinos Politis
- Aga Khan Award for Architecture – A new podcast with Farrokh Derakhshani
- News: Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces Hajj Terminal in Jeddah as the location for first-ever Islamic Arts Biennale
- Interview: The Archaeology of Islamic Sicily – with Angelo Castrorao Barba and the Superintendence of Palermo
- Congratulations New Grantee – Shahira Yatim
- Jeddah: Crossroads of the World – A new podcast with Ahmad Angawi
- Congratulations New Grantee – Abdul Rehman Qadir
- Congratulations New Grantee – Agnieszka Bystroń
- Congratulations New Grantee – The Kairouan Manuscript Project
- Congratulations New Grantee – Kristyna Rendlova
- The Power of the Visual: A new podcast with Ulrike Al-Khamis
- Congratulations New Grantee – Museum With No Frontiers
- Congratulations New Grantee – Alya Karame
- Congratulations New Grantee – Yousef Moradi
- Hands On Islamic Art Project – Congratulations Grantee!
- Olive Oil Empires: A new podcast with Anna Leone
- Congratulations New Grantee – Ignacio Arce
- Congratulations New Grantee – British Museum
- Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq
- Press: Helping Gaza university restore a Sufi institute
- Hands On Islamic Art Project – Congratulations Grant Winner!
- Saudi Modern: A new podcast with Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz
- Independent Evaluator – Hands on Islamic Art Heritage Lottery Project
- Working in an Indian Archive: Indo-Persian Documents
- New Podcast: Decoding Arms and Armour with Arthur Bijl
- International Women’s Day 2022
- Launch of Hands on Islamic Arts UK Grants
- Job Vacancy: Communications Coordinator
- New Podcast: Revealing Esna – An Egyptian Hidden Gem with Kareem Ibrahim
- The Barakat Trust’s Grants 2022 are now open!
- Podcast 14, Season 3: Andalusia’s Great Inventor: Ibn Firnas, with Glaire Anderson
- New Podcast: Ephemeral Palaces and Eternal Poetry of Iraq with Matt Saba
- Ask The Expert: Nikolaos Vryzidis
- New Podcast: Heritage is Ours with May al-Ibrashy
- Ask The Expert: Sami De Giosa
- New Podcast: The Making of a Master Calligrapher with Bilal Badat
- Answers from the Expert: Paul Wordsworth
- Ask the Expert: Melanie Gibson
- New Podcast: The Jewel of Damascus with Alain George
- Ask The Expert: Paul Wordsworth
- Epic Iran: A New Podcast with Tim Stanley
- New Instagram Guest Curator: Almoatasem Bellah Haggag
- Ask the Expert: Muneer ElBaz
- New Podcast: Retracing the Silk Roads, with Christopher Wilton-Steer
- New Podcast – Meeting for Coffee Ottoman Style with Doğukan Atmaca
- Ask The Expert Zeynep Yürekli Q & A
- Stories For Change: A conversation with award-winning documentary filmmaker Oliver Wilkins
- A Young Perspectives Conversation: Mysa Kafil-Hussain on Iraqi Art and Seeking Inspiration from the Past
- Suzan Abed: A New Instagram Series on Architecture in Iran
- New Podcast – Robert Hoyland: Revealing Arabia
- Ramadan Mubarak 2021
- Working on the collection of the ‘Eastern Museum’ at Kedleston Hall, Derby.
- ASK THE EXPERT: GLAIRE ANDERSON
- New Podcast: Searching for Minarets in the Mountains with Tharik Hussain
- Converging Paths Podcasts 2021 “Why Art History?” with Wendy Shaw
- Nilay Ozlu Curates Images of Topkapi Palace
- YOUNGperspectives: A platform to support students and early career researchers
- Instagram Guest Curator: Bernard O’Kane
- Ask An Expert: Zeynep Yurekli
- Converging Paths 2021 – “Art, Revolution and People’s Voices” a new podcast with Bahia Shehab
- The Pearling Path: Webinar Available Now!
- The Barakat Trust Grants Awards Programme is Now Open
- Episode 9 Season 2: Who are the Parsis? with Sarah Stewart
- Podcast 8 Season 2: Reviving the Cradle of Hindustani Culture with Ratish Nanda
- Podcast 7 Season 2: Contextualising the Occult with Liana Saif
- Podcast 6 Season 2: The Taj Mahal with Mehreen Chida-Razvi
- Podcast 5 Season 2: A World of Pearls with Robert Carter
- Podcast 4 Season 2: The Epics of Heroes with Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
- Podcast 3 Season 2: A Journey to the Summit of Mount Sinai with George Manginis
- Webinar 1: Egyptian Applique Work in a Global World – An Online Demonstration
- New Podcast: The Story of Coffee with Nancy Um
- Arts in Isolation Podcasts Season 2 Episode 1: Cultural Resilience in a Changing World with Salma Tuqan
- Barakat Trust Grantees for 2020
- The Barakat Trust mourns the loss of Dr Abdullah Ghouchani
- Episode 18: The Spirit of Hagia Sophia with Bissera Pentcheva
- Episode 17: The Importance of the Moon with Ulrike al-Khamis
- Episode 16: A Matter of Perspective with eL Seed
- Episode 15: Rethinking Identities — Iran and Beyond with Sussan Babaie
- Episode 14: China and the Other with Nixi Cura
- Episode 13: The Sanctuary at the Heart of Islam with Simon O’Meara
- Episode 12: A Game of Thrones in Medieval Egypt with Tarek Swelim
- New Storytelling: The Art of Greater Being by Alia Alzougbi
- Episode 10: The Forgotten Kingdoms of India with Navina Haidar
- Revisit Claudia Roden and Yasmin Khan: Exploring Middle Eastern Food and Identity
- Ola Seif Takes Over The Barakat Trust Instagram Account
- Episode 9: World Trade and Art – The Malay World with Michael Backman
- Episode 8: The Fascination of Islam with Anna Contadini
- Episode 7: The Crusades – Merchants and Monarchs with Scott Redford
- Episode 6: The Gardens of Palestine with Lara Zureikat
- Episode 5: Ottoman Complexities with Edhem Eldem
- Episode 4 “God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty” A Conversation with Doris Behrens-Abouseif
- Episode 3: Layla S. Diba Talking About Art In Peril
- Our Latest Podcast: Can We Learn From the Past? A Conversation with Professor Nasser Rabbat
- New podcasts about heritage and culture as part of the ‘Arts in Isolation’ series
- “Heritage and Heritage Guardians” – a new article about the work of The Barakat Trust
- The Barakat Trust working remotely!
- Claudia Roden and Yasmin Khan: Exploring Middle Eastern Food and Identity
- Converging Paths 2020
- M’Hamid Oasis Morocco Film Festival Finalist
- Barakat Trust Grantees 2019
- Islamic Baydha Archaeological Excavation Featured in Jordan Times
- Hamida Alireza, Founding Barakat Trustee Receives the Saudi-British Society Rawabi Holdings Award
- Launch of Converging Paths on February 12th, 2019.
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- Category: Archaeology
- An Archaeological Study of the Impact of Islam on Domestic Architecture of Surame, Nigeria
- The excavation of the Islamic historical core of Dumat al-Jandal (ad-Dira’ district)
- Post-Conflict Urban Recovery of Historic Cities: A Capacity Building Workshop for Aleppo
- Documenting Historic Commercial Buildings in Bulaq – Cairo
- Archaeological landscape survey at Khirbat al-Mafjar
- Islamic Baydha Archaeological Excavation Video
- Digitising the K.A.C Creswell’s International Collections
- Shuqayra Conservation Project
- Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural
- Creswell’s Cairo photographs: a project to enhance the Creswell photographic archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem
- San Giovanni dei Lebbrosi
- International Training Programme 2014
- CRESWELL’s CAIRO PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE V&A
- “Mamluk Patronage: An Expansion of a Traditional Concept.”
- Ornament and space in the Islamic architecture of southeast Europe, 15th-19th centuries
- Djarawa
- The Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
- North American Textile Conservation Conference
- Tüpraş Field
- The Tod Mosque Conservation Project, Egypt
- RAB‘A OF SULTAN QAITBEY
- Cairo Cemetery Salvage Project
- Khirbat Shwaykeh
- Kenyon Institute
- Ottoman endowment deeds
- Corrosion phenomena on Islamic glass
- 36th Association of Art Historian Conference
- International Training Programme at the British Museum 2010
- Vernacular Architecture of the Western Sahara in Egypt: Al- Dakhlah Oasis
- Balat, Egypt
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- Category: Publications
- Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950
- Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial
- Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts
- Abbasid painting of the Caliphal Palace of Samarra, Iraq
- Crusader Landscapes in the Medieval Levant: The Archaeology and History of the Latin East
- The Women Who Built the Ottoman World Female : Patronage and the Architectural Legacy of Gulnus Sultan
- Sacred Precincts : The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World
- Contemporary Art from the Middle East
- Digital Access to Persian Manuscripts
- The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism
- Persian Gardens and Pavillions: Reflections in History Poetry and the Arts
- Imperial Women in Mughal India: The Piety and Patronage of Jahanara Begum
- The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion
- Rashid Al-Din : Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran
- Living with Heritage in Cairo: Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City
- Sultans and Mosques : The Early Muslim Architecture of Bangladesh
- Glossary of Arabic terms for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
- Osman Hamdi Bey and the Historiophile Mood
- Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt
- Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital
- A Survey of Architectural Remains along the Mughal Highway from Agra to Lahore
- Early Persian Painting : Kalila Wa Dimna Manuscripts of the Late 14th Century
- The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue
- Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
- Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo
- The Traditional Architecture of Saudi Arabia
- The Court of the Il-Khans, 1290-1340
- The Topkapi Saray Museum: The Albums and Illustrated Manuscripts
- Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning
- Category: Scholarships and research
- Category: Archaeology
- Category: Uncategorised
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- The Barakat Trust Application Form C1 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B3 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B2 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B1 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A4 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A3 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A2 2023
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A1 2023
- Grant Expenditure Form
- HOIA Independent Evaluator
- Hands On Islamic Art The Barakat Trust Approved Press Release
- Communications Coordinator Person Specification
- Communications Coordinator Job Description
- The Barakat Trust Application Form C1 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B3 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B2 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B1 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A4 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A3 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A2 2022
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A1 2022
- The Barakat Trust Logo AI Format
- The Barakat Trust Logo
- The Barakat Trust Brochure 2021
- Consultancy Services Brochure
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A5 2021
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A4 2021
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A3 2021
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A2 2021
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A1 2021
- How Syrians are Adapting to Home Away from Home
- Fayoum Trip Daily Itinerary 2020
- Cairo Trip 2020 Daily Booking Form
- Cairo Trip Daily Itinerary 2020
- Cairo Trip Highlights 2020
- Cairo Trip 2020 Booking Form
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B2 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B3 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form B1 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A5 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A4 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A3 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A2 2020
- The Barakat Trust Application Form A1 2020
Events
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 6 – Arabic Only
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 5 – English Only
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 4 – English Only
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 3 – Arabic Only
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 2 – Arabic Only
- The Barakat Trust Grants 2023 Question and Answer Session 1 – English Only
FAQs
- I am an architectural and art historian, currently working on a paper which questions the ‘normative’ ways through which we might think about Islamic art. The paper is an extension of my doctorate in which I invited to an interdisciplinary reading of the architecture of the Safavid Isfahan and the poetry of the period. I proposed a method of using the structures of one discipline to open doors to a new understanding of the other discipline. Given this, I am interested to go further with this discussion to the mechanisms through which the Islamic art museums work. My question is in terms of the normative systems of display in the Islamic art museums. Indeed, one method is the categorisation of the artefacts via their discipline (so, simply, in a room, you can only find metalware or you can only find textiles or you can only find ceramics…). The other method categorises the objects according to the dynasty or geography (but here again, there’s a sense of avoiding to mix objects from different artistic disciplines. Is that right?). What are the other methods of display of Islamic art that I missed? Do we have any known method of display in which we can see objects from dramatically different disciplines in one place so a viewer can get a glimpse of all different varieties of objects in one take? and which method is the most popular and used method in the museological system of the Islamic art? What sources do you suggest for a comprehensive study (and history) of different methods of display in Islamic art museums?
- Ask the Expert: Ladan Akbarnia
- This question is specifically about the Ottoman Conquest of the former Mamluk territories. To what extent did the Ottomans assimilate cultural traditions in art, architecture and dress from the Mamluk realms and incorporate them into their own artistic and cultural vocabulary? There is a sub question related to Ottoman costume: Do we have any evidence of whether the Ottomanisation of the Mamluk empire led to the change in what people wore, and is there any evidence that there were differences between what people wore in Istanbul, say, as opposed to in Cairo or Damascus? Similarly, to what extent would costumes in Istanbul have been affected/influenced/ inspired by costumes from the former Mamluk realms.
- Prior to the formation of the Ottoman Empire (I.e. 14th century), how distinct were the Turkish speaking communities to the Greek-speaking Roman communities? Were they integrated as a whole group in cities and rural areas?
- During the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, despite local and world wars, the Western world witnessed earth shattering progress and changes in science, technology and art. This was not experienced by the Islamic world in the same way. What was the status of classical Islamic arts and architecture during this period, and what was the impact of Western arts on them?
- What is Sufi art, and is there a relationship between Mamluk art and Sufi art?
- Are your grants limited to specific regions of the world?
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