Protecting and Promoting the Art and Cultural Heritage of the Islamic World
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Archaeology2021-11-24T11:57:19+00:00

Archaeology

A selection of reports on the archaeology 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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  • An Archaeological Study of the Impact of Islam on Domestic Architecture of Surame, Nigeria

    The concern of this research is to reconstruct the inward orientation of space within the domestic architecture of Surame. The traditional domestic and by extension, the community environments are some of the important archaeological material manifestations of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Between January 7-February 3, 2022, this author conducted excavation at Surame, Nigeria funded by the Barakat Trust. The excavation focused on a spot (N 13º 05’21.20’’ E 04º 54’31.91’’ and about 291m above sea level) where pots and pottery pavement from an earlier excavated trench as part of a PhD, extended into both northern, western and eastern walls. [...]

Shuqayra Conservation Project

Shuqayra Conservation Project: Phase I, West-Central Jordan, 2017. Grantee: ZAKARIYAN.BENBADHANN NA’IMAT, Islamic Archaeology Research Unit at the University of Bonn, Germany About the project: The project undertook three main tasks:  1) a detailed artistic and architectural documentation of the mosaic pavement, 2) a complete diagnosis of the current state of preservation [...]

  • Power

Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural

This catalogue, Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural deals with the entirety of the Muslim world with a total emphasis on pre-Modern Islamic cultures through the lens of visual and material culture. It  contextualises the art work in three essays reflecting the thematic divisions adopted in the exhibition. [...]

Creswell’s Cairo photographs: a project to enhance the Creswell photographic archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Grantee:  Omniya Abdel Barr Date: 2016 The Barakat Trust funded the “Creswell’s Cairo Photographs” project with a senior visiting scholarship in 2016-2017. The project focused on enhancing the Creswell photographic archive of Cairo at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The work is allowing this important photographic collection to be [...]

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