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London hosts arts of the Mamluks conference

Edited by Maha Karim

Friday, 03 July 2009 12:09

This conference will focus on the visual arts of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk period (1250-1517), including connections between Mamluks and contemporary cultures of east and west, and the legacy of Mamluk art beyond 1517.

Since the last major conference on Mamluk art in Washington on 1981, new historical sources have been brought to light and archaeological discoveries and research on Mamluk art and architecture have added considerably to our understanding of the Mamluk sultanate. But whereas in recent years a number of collective publications and exhibition catalogues have been dedicated to the art and architecture of various parts of the Muslim world, those of the Arab world have received less scholarly attention.

The acknowledged place of the Mamluks in the late medieval Mediterranean world, and especially their significance as the last artistic flowering of the pre-modern Arab world, the numerous Mamluk architectural monuments in Greater Syria and Egypt, the great quantity of surviving artefacts and the extraordinary wealth of historical sources for the period make it highly appropriate to have a fresh look at Mamluk art and architecture in the wider context of Islamic art and the context of Mamluk history in particular.

This conference, which is devoted to the art, architecture and archaeology of the Mamluks in Egypt, Syria and the Arab peninsula between 1250 and 1517 and their place in the arts of the contemporary Muslim world, will do much to remedy their recent neglect in the scholarship of Islamic art and material culture and in the study of later medieval Egypt, Syria, Arabia and the rest of the Arab world.

Conference Programme

Day 1: Thursday, 24 September 2009

9.30-10.00
Registration

10.00-10.15
Welcome and introductions

10.15-11.30
Rachel Ward, Mosque lamps and the chronology of enamelled glass
Rosalind Wade Haddon, Mamluk Fine Wares Re-examined
Q&A

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break

12.00-13.15
Jon Thomson, Two Late Mamluk Rugs: Some New Observations
Zeren Tanindi, On Two Mamluk Bibliophile Bureaucrats: Manuscripts of Amir Qansu and Amir Yashbak
Q&A

13.15-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.45
Philipp Speiser, Mamluk Archaeology: An overview on recent excavation projects
Julia Gonnella, From the Inside to the Outside: A Reorientation of the Citadel of Aleppo
Q&A

15.45-16.15 Coffee Break

16.15-17.30
Geoffrey King, Mamluk art in the Arab peninsula
Stefan Weber, Rebuilding the City: Damascus after Timur Lenk
Q&A

Day 2: Friday, 25 September 2009

10.00-11.45
Nasser Rabbat, Power and the City: Or How Mamluk Architecture Coopted the Streets of Cairo
Ellen Kenney, A Mamluk Monument Reconstructed: An Architectural History of the Congregational Mosque and Mausoleum of Tankiz al-Nasiri in Damascus
Bernard O’Kane, The Friday Mosque of Qawsun
Q&A

11.45-12.15 Coffee Break

12.15-13.30
Iman Abdulfattah & Mamdouh Mohamed Sakr, Umayyad Scenes on Mamluk Walls: Glass Mosaics in a Qa'a at the Citadel of Cairo
Abdallah Kahil, Stone Carving in Mamluk Cairo
Q&A

13.30-14.45 Lunch

14.45-16.00
Alison Ohta, Binding Relationships : Mamluk, Ottomans and Turcomans
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Cairo and Granada : Artistic interchange between the Mamluks and Nasrids
Q&A

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

16.30-17.45
Anna Ballian , The Mosul tradition meets Mamluk metalwork:a Rasulid basin and a Jaziran candlestick
Sophie Makariou and Carine Juvin, The Louvre Kursi: Usage and Symbolism
Q&A

Day 3: Saturday, 26 September 2009

10.00-11.45
Fodil Fadli & Magda Sibley, The Mamluk Hammams of Cairo
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Mamluk perceptions of foreign arts
Julien Loiseau, Founding A Friday Mosque In Mamluk Cairo: Religious Practice, Social Concern And Architectural Patronage
Q&A

11.45-12.15 Coffee Break

12.15-13.30
Mehmet Baha Tanman, Mamluk influence on the architecture of the Anatolian principalities
Howayda Al-Harithy, Mamluk Tripoli Reinscribed
Q&A

13.30
Robert Irwin, Concluding Remarks

All participants will need to register.

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