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The Bulletinof the Bfsa Number 19, 2014 Price: £5.00 THE BULLETIN OF THE BFSA (British Foundation for the Study of Arabia) Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) Number 19, 2014 British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Contents (BFSA) WELCOME 3 formerly the Society for Arabian Studies BFSA NEWS 4 ALLIED NEWS AND RESEARCH 42 THE BFSA 4 Nabataean News 42 World War One 43 BFSA Trustees Outreach BFSA LECTURES 4 Trenches, trains, tents 44 President Miss Beatrice de Cardi OBE Chair Dr Derek Kennet Lectures delivered 4 Chairman Dr Derek Kennet Lectures Dr Steffen Hertog, Dr Shelagh Weir, Mrs Ionis Forthcoming Lectures 6 AWARDS AND PRIZES 47 Treasurer Mr Simon Alderson Thompson (co-ordinator) Honorary Secretary Mr Michael Macdonald Website co-ordinator Mr Michael Macdonald BFSA CONFERENCES 7 AVAILABLE GRANTS 48 Conferences Dr Lucy Blue (co-ordinator), Ms Sarah The Seminar for Arabian Studies 7 Dr Noel Brehony CMG Searight, Dr Rob Carter, Mrs Janet Starkey The Red Sea VI 8 CONFERENCES & SEMINARS 52 Completed conferences 2013 52 Dr Rob Carter MONOGRAPH SERIES 9 Michael Crawford Publications Conferences, lectures & seminars, 2014 56 Mr William Facey GRANTS-IN-AID 9 Chair Dr St John Simpson NEW PUBLICATIONS ON ARABIA 59 Dr Noel Guckian OBE Bulletin Dr Nadia Durrani (editor), Ms Jean English In search of the domestic 10 Prof. Robert Hoyland (art editor), Ms Sarah Searight (co-ordinator), Patterns of legitimacy 12 JOURNALS & MAGAZINES 60 Ms Carolyn Perry Mrs Ionis Thompson, Mr William Facey (book reviews), BFSA news, on-line 13 Dr St John Simpson Ms Carolyn Perry, Ms Aurore Hamm (editorial assistant) The BFSA Trustees 14 SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS & Mrs Ionis Thompson Monographs Dr Derek Kennet, Dr St John Simpson (editors) OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES 62 NEWS AND RESEARCH 17 Grants BOOK REVIEWS 64 Seminar (including PSAS) BY COUNTRY, 2013 17 Chair Dr Derek Kennet Chair Prof. Robert Hoyland LIVES REMEMBERED 74 Dr Lucy Blue, Dr Nadia Durrani BAHRAIN 17 Nigel Groom 74 KUWAIT 17 Susan Hillyard 75 Notes for contributors to the Bulletin OMAN 18 Michael Rice 76 The Bulletin depends on the good will of BFSA members and correspondents to provide contributions. News, items of QATAR 21 Sarah White 77 general interest, details of completed postgraduate research, forthcoming conferences, meetings and special events are welcome. Please contact Ionis Thompson or Sarah Searight. Emails: [email protected] / [email protected] SAUDI ARABIA 27 LAST WORD 78 UAE 30 Reporting from Yemen 78 Grants in aid of research YEMEN 39 Applicants are advised to apply well ahead of the May and October deadlines. Full details on page 9. Membership Membership details are available from the BFSA website www.thebfsa.org. For membership renewals contact William WELCOME Do then turn to the section on Allied News and Research (page 42), which includes Dr Lucy Wadeson’s Nabataean Deadman, BFSA Membership Secretary, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, Welcome to the 2014 edition of the Bulletin of the British News, and, during the centenary year of the First World War, or email: [email protected] Foundation for the Study of Arabia. two compelling pieces on Great War research in Arabia. In addition to Will Facey’s must-read book review section For other enquiries, contact: The issue opens with all the latest BFSA News, including (page 64), the 2014 Bulletin contains a wealth of information The Hon. Secretary, Mr Michael Macdonald information on our lecture series and essays from our two on Arabian-related conferences and lectures, publications, The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia BFSA grant-winners. resources and funding bodies, plus selected obituaries, and a c/o The London Middle East Institute back-page column from Carolyn Perry who reports on School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) This is followed by current News and Research by country – innovative developments in Yemen. Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG, UK from a much-awaited round-up of Bahraini news from Dr Website: www.thebfsa.org Steffen Terp Laursen to information on developments in All that remains is to thank the indefatigable editorial team: Yemen from Stephen Steinbeiser, including news on the al- Jean English, Sarah Searight, Ionis Thompson, Will Facey, Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia ISSN: 2050-2036. Ash’aer Mosque in Yemen (our cover image). In addition to Aurore Hamm and Carolyn Perry. Kind thanks also to all of BFSA Registered Charity No. 1003272 general news summaries by country, the Bulletin carries the many contributors to the Bulletin, and to you, the reader, extended features on individual projects. Among the for your continued support of the BFSA. highlights is an article from Prof. Geoff Bailey who updates us on the DISPERSE project (or Dynamic Landscapes, Coastal On the cover: al-Ash‘aer Mosque, Zabid, Yemen Good reading! Photo credit: Abdullah al-Hadhrami Environments and Human Dispersals) in Saudi Arabia. Dr Nadia Durrani (editor) 2 3 Bulletin of the British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) Number 19, 2014 built their personal power bases in their tribal homelands and centuries after 1535, between France and the Ottoman recruited tribal allies into different parts of the armed forces. empire. Based on international strategy, on the shared BFSA NEWS The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 exposed Aden’s hostility of the two monarchies to Spain and the House of failure to diversify its relations and sources of support. The Austria, the ‘union of the lily and the crescent’ soon northern regime grew stronger and more stable in the 1980s. acquired commercial and cultural momentum. marked by failures, collapses and destructions. With the tools of archaeology – four expeditions (two of which were THE BFSA The PDRY and YAR concluded by late 1980s that unity was These were the ‘years of the consuls’. At times the ports of led by British archaeologists) – we have tried to disentangle essential but a majority on both sides wanted a federation the Levant became diarchies between foreign consuls and this thread of history. In so doing, we have left in the hands The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) was and not the full unity agreed – with limited consultation – by local officials. During wars between the Ottoman Empire of modern Palestinians the physical summary of human life formed in 2010 through the merger of the Society for the two main leaders in December 1989. To make matters and Venice in 1694, and Russia in 1770, consuls in Smyrna and a (still?) living witness of our deepest roots. Arabian Studies (1987) and the Seminar for Arabian Studies worse they agreed to unite two such diverse political systems persuaded the commanders of the Venetian and Russian (1968). We aim to act as a focal point and advocate for the within a matter of six months. It was no surprise that it navies respectively, not to attack the city, in order to prevent Prof. Lorenzo Nigo is Associate Professor of Near Eastern study of Arabia’s cultural heritage and to advance public should fail and lead to the civil war of 1994 after which the reprisals by Muslims against local Christians. While the Archaeology at Rome Sapienza University and director of knowledge of the Arabian Peninsula through the promotion regime, dominated by northern politicians – but with some Ottoman Empire was at war, Smyrna remained peaceful. expeditions to Motya, a Phoenician city in western Sicily, of research into its history, antiquities, archaeology, powerful southern allies – imposed itself on the south. and to Palestine and Jordan. His current excavations at Tell ethnography, languages, literature, art, culture, customs, International languages for inter-communal communication, es-Sultan/ancient Jericho are undertaken jointly with the geography, geology and natural history. We do this through Today, the PDRY is seen by many southerners as a Utopia, and polyglottism, were another characteristic of the Levant. Palestine Department of Antiquities. the raising of money, organization of events and the forgetting its failings. The young people demonstrating in Before the triumph of English, the Levant used two supporting of research and publications. southern towns for independence have no memory of the international languages. First was lingua franca, the 29 May 2013 PDRY but are persuaded that it was better than the status quo. simplified Italian generally understood by merchants and The BFSA organises lectures, oversees the annual Seminar for The Role of the PDRY in Creating a South Yemeni Following the conclusion of the National Dialogue Conference sailors in the Mediterranean. Arabian Studies, publishes its own monograph series, and a majority in both parts of Yemen seem to want a federal state Identity by Dr Noel Brehony supports research and publications on the region. Full details though some argue for two regions and others for six, fearing From 1840, thanks to the spread of schools and of steam and (The Foundation’s Annual General Meeting was followed by can be found at our website: www.thebfsa.org. The following that a distinct region for the south might foster, not suppress, a rail travel, French, then the world language from Buenos Aires the following lecture) BFSA News pages will explore this work in more detail. desire for independence. On the other hand, a Yemen with to Saint Petersburg, became the second – or for many the first several regions would give expression to the local identities – language of the Levant. It was spoken by pashas, viziers and Yemeni nationalism emerged in the early 20th century and based on the Sultanates and Emirates of South Arabia and the sultans and was an official language of the Ottoman Foreign the nationalist movements in both north and south Yemen long tradition of separateness in Hadhramaut – which the Office and the municipalities of Alexandria and Beirut.
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