Archaeological evidence of an early Islamic monastery in the centre of al‐Qusur (Failaka Island, Kuwait)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Bonnéric
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Failaka Island ◽  
Early Islamic

scholarly journals A Religious and Economic Stopover in the Middle of Khorasan-e Razavi

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 184-199
Author(s):  
Rocco Rante ◽  
Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki
Keyword(s):  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Geographical Point

Abstract Robat-e Sefid/Bazeh Hur is the name of two modern villages giving the name to a valley located in a strategic geographical point traversed by a main north-south caravan road. Archaeological evidence brought to light the meaning of this valley, in which religious and economic aspects show and testify to development of this region during the Sasanian and early Islamic epochs. They highlight its role as a stopover for caravans in the past as today.

TOPOGRAPHIES OF PRODUCTION IN NORTH AFRICAN CITIES DURING THE VANDAL AND BYZANTINE PERIODS

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Leone
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
North African ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Urban Location ◽  
African Cities ◽  
Lime Kilns ◽  
Early Islamic

An important characteristic of North African cities in Late Antiquity is the appearance of structures relating to artisanal production in unusual settings, often in former public buildings. In this paper I argue for developing a study of this sector, looking not only at products, such as pottery, but also at productive structures and their wider urban location. Archaeological evidence from Tunisia and Tripolitania is analysed, dating from Vandal, Byzantine and also, occasionally, Early Islamic times, relating principally to murex dyeing, fish salting, olive oil production and pottery manufacturing. Lime kilns are also considered.

The Early Islamic Pottery from the Monastery at al-Qusur

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Bonnéric
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
Failaka Island ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

The pottery discovered at al-Qusur (Failaka Island, Kuwait) is of first importance to clarify thedating of the Christian settlements of the Arab-Persian Gulf. Firstly attributed to the Sasanianperiod by their excavators on the base of pottery and stucco studies, theses sites were thenattributed to the Early Islamic period by other scholars according to the artefacts published.Complete catalogues of the materiel unearthed on these sites are still lacking. This article offers afirst overview of the pottery discovered at al-Qu??r by the French Mission in Kuwait in 1988–1989and in 2007–2009 in two buildings identified as two churches (A1 and A2), two courtyard houses(B1 and B8), and seven isolated buildings (B2–B7 and B9). The corpus was incomplete due to theloss of sherds from 1988 and 1989 campaigns during the Gulf war and to the treatment of partof the pottery discovered from 2007 to 2009. If quantification was meaningless and petrographyimpossible, this corpus reflects the cultural proximity of the site with Mesopotamia and Persiaand diagnostic sherds such as pitchers with gouged lines or pointed circles with incised lines andgouged motifs, stamped sherds, carinated turquoise-glazed cups, attest that the main occupationof the site is related to an Early Islamic period. This dating is consistent with other Christian sitesin the region, contradicting both Arabic and Syriac sources that propounded the disappearanceof Christianity as soon as the beginnings of Islam.

Early Islamic Kūfa in Context: A Chronological Reinterpretation of the Palace, with a Note on the Development of the Monumental Language of the Early Muslim Élite

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-103
Author(s):  
Aila Santi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Early Date ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Architectural Development ◽  
Early Islamic

Abstract The origin of the congregational mosque-dār al-imāra combination—despite wide acknowledgement of its symbolic importance and spread in early Islamic urbanism—has until now been considered the mere result of a measure to protect public treasure implemented in Kūfa at a very early date (638) as a consequence of a burglary. A critical analysis of literary sources, combined with a systematic review of the available archaeological evidence, has made it possible to confute this traditional view in favour of a new dating for the emergence of the first Kūfan dār al-imāra and its architectural development, suggesting interesting insights pertaining to the monumental propaganda promoted by the ruling élite in the Umayyad era.

Christian settlement at Failaka, Qusur site (Kuwait): excavations in 2011 and 2013

2016 ◽  
Vol XXIV (1) ◽  
pp. 529-546
Author(s):  
Magdalena Żurek
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Period ◽  
Failaka Island ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
The University ◽  
Early Islamic

Excavations of the Qusur complex in the center of Failaka Island in Kuwait commenced in 2011 and were continued in 2013, carried out by a team from the University of Warsaw. A magnetic prospection preceded the fieldwork. In the course of two seasons three of nine units in the northernmost part of the site were investigated. Stone enclosures and small houses with white mortar floors were discovered and dated provisionally to the late pre-Islamic and early Islamic period. The settlement was cleared of practically all finds save for some refuse pottery in the courtyards.

scholarly journals Ṭabūn, Tannūr or Mustawqad? Fire Devices and Their Use in the Early Islamic Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 34-66
Author(s):  
Hagit Nol
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

Abstract Ovens, hearths and furnaces were used by early Islamic societies for baking, cooking, and the production of various artefacts. The archaeological evidence from one research area in central Israel, from the seventh–eleventh centuries, accordingly presents a variety of fire installations. This paper offers an interpretation of their function through the analyses of terminology in contemporary texts, ethno-archaeological data, and spatial relations in the archaeological record. The paper suggests that domestic baking and cooking left almost no remains in the archaeological context. Instead, fire installations in the research area were almost exclusively related to crafts.

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