Barakat Culture Vulture
A selection of reports on the culture vulture 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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The Altajir Trust
The Altajir Trust is a UK based charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), registered charity no. 1159070. The Trust supports exhibitions, publications, educational activities and other programmes related to Islamic culture and history and Muslim - Christian relations. The Altajir Trust was founded by His Excellency Mohamed Mahdi Altajir and is financed [...]
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) focusses on the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the developing world. It includes the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Aga Khan Historic Cities Programme, the Aga Khan Music Initiative, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada, the [...]
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 [...]
Asa Eger
Asa Eger is Associate Professor of the Islamic World at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the History Department. He completed his Ph.D in 2008 at the University of Chicago in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Dr. Eger researches and teaches the Early and Medieval [...]
Dr Micaela Sinibaldi
Dr Micaela Sinibaldi is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology and material culture of the Islamic and Crusader periods in the Middle East. After obtaining a PhD from Cardiff University with a thesis on the Crusader period in the Lordship of Transjordan, she has held post-doctoral positions at Humboldt-Universität and [...]
Dr Annabel Teh Gallop FBA
Head of the Southeast Asia section at the British Library in London, she works on Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and the art of the Islamic book in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world. Recent publications include Malay seals from the Islamic world of Southeast Asia: Content, Form, [...]
Dr Gizem Tongo
Dr Gizem Tongo is a historian specialising in the visual and material culture of the late Ottoman Empire. Her research and publications to date have sought to present the cosmopolitan and multicultural aspects of the Ottoman cultural past and a new reading of its intellectual milieu; one in which Levantine, foreign, [...]
The Barakat Trust Grants Awards Programme is Now Open
The Barakat Trust Grants Awards Programme is now open! The Barakat Trust’s grant applications programme for 2021 opened on 1 January 2021 and will close at midnight GMT on 31 March 2021. We look forward to receiving well-developed proposals for projects and initiatives that will help preserve the artistic, architectural [...]
Alessandro Ghidoni
Alessandro Ghidoni is a doctoral student at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, with a background in archaeology, experimental archaeology, ethnography and material culture studies. My research revolves around shipbuilding and seafaring in the Indian Ocean, with particular focus on early and middle Islamic sewn-plank watercraft. Alessandro Ghidoni [...]