H-Islamart Resource - The Aghlabids & Their Neighbors: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Art & Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa Discussion published by Glaire D. Anderson on Friday, November 7, 2014 We are happy to announce that the presentations from the Aghlabids workshop, held in London in May 2014, are now available online at: http://aghlabid.web.unc.edu/program/ Organised by Glaire Anderson, Corisande Fenwick and Mariam Rosser-Owen, this two-day conference focused on the history and material culture of the Aghlabid dynasty of Ifrīqiya and their immediate neighbors in the region. The workshop was conceived as the beginning of a conversation about North Africa in the ninth century, which considers the region not as a peripheral frontier whose artistic production was inferior to or derivative of trends in the ‘Abbasid heartlands of Iraq and Egypt, but as one of the vibrant centers of the early medieval Dar al-Islam. An international group of scholars from the US, Europe, and North Africa presented research on Aghlabid history, art, architecture, archaeology, urbanism, and numismatics. The essays, including additional contributions by colleagues who were unable to join us in London, will be published as a volume in Brill’s Arts & Archaeology of the Islamic World series. Keynote Hugh Kennedy (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies) “Abbasid Networks in Ifriqiya and the origins of the Aghlabids” Speakers Ali Asgar Alibhai (Harvard University), An Effaced Memory: Aghlabid Hydraulic Works and the Medieval Islamic Regalia of Kingship Azeddine Belakehal (Université Mohamed Khider, Biskra), Les Ambiances Lumineuses dans les Mosquées de la Période Aghlabide Chafik T. Benchekroun (Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail), La fondation de la Qarawiyyīn: un quiproquo entre l’historiographie et l’archéologie Jonathan M. Bloom (Boston College), The Marble Mihrab Panels of the Great Mosque of Kairouan Olivier Bobin, Max Schvoerer, Claude Ney (CIRAM/Université Bordeaux), The metallic lustre decoration of the Mihrab of the great Mosque of Kairouan (Tunisia, 9th century AD). Scientific investigations Azaddin Bouyahiaoui and and Akila Djellide (Pr. Université d’Archéologie-Alger/ CNRPAH), Tahert- Citation: Glaire D. Anderson. Resource - The Aghlabids & Their Neighbors: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Art & Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa. H-Islamart. 08-15-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/51363/resource-aghlabids-their-neighbors-interdisciplinary-workshop-art Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Islamart Tagdemt , site archéologique aux problématiques multiples Chloé Capel (Université Paris –Sorbonne), Sijilmasa in the days of the Aghlabids: between saharian isolation and Kairouanese side-effects Patrice Cressier (CIHAM-UMR 5648, CNRS, Lyon), Nakûr: un émirat rifain pro-omeyyade contemporain des Aghlabides Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck, University of London), Kairouan and the formation of a ninth-century capital: a comparative perspective Matthew Gordon (Miami University), Aghlabid-Tulunid relations: a brief survey Khadija Hamdi (Université Paris -Sorbonne), Les aspects cachés des carreaux de la grande mosquée de Kairouan Karim Ifrak (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris), Au-delà de l’être et du paraître. Le cas des livres manuscrits coraniques aghlabides Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford), The Palermo Qur’ān (AH373/982–83AD) and the triumph of Malikism in Ifrīqiya Riyaz Latif (Wellesley College), Negotiating the Metaphorical Frontiers: Aghlabid Ribāts in Ifrīqiyā David Mattingly & Martin Sterry (University of Leicester), Zuwila and Fazzan in the seventh-tenth centuries AD Alex Metcalfe (Lancaster University), History and historiography: the Aghlabids in Ifrīqiya and Sicily Annliese Nef (Université Paris -Sorbonne), Sicily in the Aghlabid emirate Stéphane Pradines (Aga Khan University, London), Qalat al-Kabsh and the fortifications of Egypt and Tunisia in the 9th century Cheryl Porter (Freelance consultant in library collection management/Director, Montefiascone Project, Italy), Techniques and materials used in the making of the Blue Qur’an: a scientific analysis Stuart Sears (Independent Scholar), Numismatic Evidence for the Origins of al-’Abbāsīya and the Aghlabid State Kordula Wolf & Marco Di Branco (Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom), The Muslim Settlement Near the River Garigliano (883-915): Historical and Archaeological Researches Citation: Glaire D. Anderson. Resource - The Aghlabids & Their Neighbors: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Art & Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa. H-Islamart. 08-15-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/51363/resource-aghlabids-their-neighbors-interdisciplinary-workshop-art Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.