Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 54 2025
Papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024
Edited by Silvia Lischi
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(September 2025)
ISBN: 9781805830603
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The 57th Seminar for Arabian Studies (Paris 2024) brought together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to discuss the archaeology, history, epigraphy, and philology of the Arabian Peninsula. This volume includes seventeen papers presented in the ordinary sessions and three papers presented in the special session ‘Zaydi governance in Yemen’.
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest-running academic forum dedicated to the presentation of research on the cultural and natural heritage of the Arabian Peninsula. Since its first meeting in 1968, the Seminar has covered a wide range of subjects including archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the present. In 2019 the Seminar changed from being a British-based forum to an international setting, starting with a meeting at the University of Leiden and continuing with other European institutions. 2025 marks another turning point, as the meeting is being organized for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula, at the Zayed National Museum, Department of Culture and Tourism (Abu Dhabi), bringing this increasingly important international meeting to the region. The 57th Seminar for Arabian Studies, held in Paris in 2024, was a particularly memorable event, bringing together scholars from a broad range of disciplines to discuss the archaeology, history, epigraphy, and philology of the Arabian Peninsula. This volume includes seventeen papers presented in the ordinary sessions and three papers presented in the special session ‘Zaydi governance in Yemen’.
Guidelines and Transliteration
Editor’s Foreword
In Memoriam. Walter Wilhelm Müller (1933–2024), Khaldūn Hazzāʿ ʿAbduh Nuʿmān (1967–2024)
Interconnected buildings in the Old Town of AlUla and their social significance – Aljohara AlModarra, Marek Z. Barański & Apolline Vernet
Preliminary report on the epigraphic survey in Yanbuʿ, Saudi Arabia: first season (2023) – Ajab Alotibi, Risa Tokunaga, Majed Dahash & Muzhira Alqahtani
The Yemeni mummies: a brief report and comprehensive bibliography – Mohammed A. Atbuosh & Amgad E.M. Abdulmughni
The ‘cupola’ of the Ṣanʿāʾ cathedral: it still exists – Werner Daum
The nature of post-Bronze Age human occupation at Tell Abraq (Umm al‑Quwain): archaeological insights from the 2023 field season – Michele Degli Esposti, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Federico Borgi, Francesca Barchiesi & Rania Hussein Kannouma
Dating early narratives of the Hijra – Adrien de Jarmy
The first excavation season at Shokur: a multi-period fortified settlement between desert and mountains – Francesco Genchi, Nunzia Larosa, Giampiero Tursi, Guido Antinori, Francesco Caputo & Valentina Mili
Piecing together the evidence: architecture, inscriptions, and sherds from an early to middle Islamic funerary context in Qurḥ/al‑Mabiyāt – Stefanie Janke, Friedrich W. Weigel, Mustafa Ahmad & Arnulf Hausleiter
Exploring the diversity of tomb typology with accompanied burial practices in its socio-economic contexts in the Wadi Suq period (c.2000–1600 BC), south-east Arabia – Taichi Kuronuma
The emergence of South Arabian urban societies: the material culture from abroad in context – Romolo Loreto
Funerary rituals on Qurayyah’s painted pottery – Marta Luciani
Can community-based participatory research enhance our understanding of Arabian archaeology? – Selin Nugent, Jennifer Swerida, Nora al‑Aati, Reilly Jensen & Cindy Srnka
A rural perspective on the Umm an-Nar and Wadi Suq periods from Burj Huraiz (northern Oman) – Eric Olijdam, Bleda Düring, Michel de Vreeze & Zoë van Litsenburg
The onomasticon of the Himaitic and Ancient South Arabian inscriptions from Ḥimā: a comparative overview and insights into their cultural and linguistic layers – Alessia Prioletta
Muʿtariḍ Community Mall: more insights into the development of the hydraulic, agricultural, and funerary landscapes of al‑‘Ayn (UAE) – Peter Sheehan, Nour Al Marzooqi, Mohammed Khalifa & Malak Al Ajou
An Iron Age artefact hoard discovered at Saruq as-Hadid-53 archaeological site, Dubai, UAE: a preliminary study – Mariam A. Al Suwaidi, Joseph W. Lehner & Bader M. Al Ali
The production of Bahlā Ware in the context of late Islamic Oman – Jelena Živković, José Cristobal Carvajal López, Irini Biezeveld & Stephanie Döpper
Focus session ‘Zaydi governance in Yemen between legal theory and political practice’
Introduction
Dhimma governance and the Zaydī madhhab spectrum: the forced conversion of Jewish orphans, its Islamic legal background, and political relevance – Kerstin Hünefeld
The Yemeni Zaydi school of law: a brief history of its textual tradition (third/tenth–tenth/sixteenth century) – Ebrahim Mansoor
Transfer of power in the Sharaf al‑Dīn imamate (912–980/1506–1573): theory and practice – Ekaterina Pukhovaia
Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024
- Edited by Silvia Lischi
Other Titles in this Series
The Nabataeans in Focus: Current Archaeological Research at Petra
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 42 2012
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 53 2024
Papers from the fifty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Aarhus 4–6 August 2023
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 51 2022
Papers from the fifty-fourth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held virtually on 2–4 and 9–11 July 2021
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 52 2023
Papers from the fifty-fifth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 5–7 August 2022
The Development of Arabic as a Written Language
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40 2010
Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North-West Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies volume 51
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 43 2013
Papers from the forty-sixth meeting, London, 13–15 July 2012
Stone Tools of Prehistoric Arabia: Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 21 July 2019
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 46, 2016
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 24 to 26 July 2015
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019
Papers from the fifty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3 to 5 August 2018
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting, London, 26–28 July 2013
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Papers from the fifty-third meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July 2019
Languages of Southern Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 47 2017
Papers from the fiftieth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 29 to 31 July 2016
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