Fusṭāṭ Expedition: Preliminary Report, 1966

Kubiak, Wladyslaw B.; Scanlon, George T.

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“…Creswell later discussed houses in Fusṭāṭ, particularly houses nos 1, 5 and 6, which are the most interesting because they combine gardens and fountains (Figures 9 and 10; Creswell 1952: 128). Finally George Scanlon and Wladyslaw Kubiak carried out excavations in Fusṭāṭ in the 1970s, and their reports and articles complement the findings of Bahgat (Kubiak and Scanlon 1989: 23). A Fāṭimid house at Fusṭāṭ (Figure 11) exemplifies the courtyard gardens.…”

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Fāṭimid gardens: archaeological and historical perspectives

Pradines¹,

Khan²

2016

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This article is the first systematic investigation on the location, layout, design and functions of Fāṭimid gardens. Our study is based on primary sources and focuses on different elements of the recreational and ceremonial functions of gardens. Very little is known about the layout of the royal Fāṭimid gardens because no garden has survived or been excavated so far as we are aware. However, we collected physical insights on the layout and shape of these Fāṭimid gardens through different archaeological excavations in Cairo and outside of Egypt, including our recent discoveries and the garden that we found in Darrāsa.

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Section: Archaeology and Garden Layoutmentioning

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Fāṭimid gardens: archaeological and historical perspectives

Pradines¹,

Khan²

2016

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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“…The Tang Dynasty (618-907) was the strong start of its export abroad (Cooper, 2010). It is worth noting that Chinese ceramics had been known in Islamic countries since the Tang Dynasty, such as Iraq, the Persian Gulf (Lin, 2008), Iran, Yemen, and the eastern coast of Africa (Somalia and Madagascar) (Uthmān, 1990), as well as found significant Chinese ceramic pieces in the excavations of Fustat, Egypt, in 1964 AD (Kubiak & Scanlon, 1973), also Samarra excavations in Iraq (Mei, 2003), in addition to the fact that among the Fatimid treasures large quantities of Chinese ceramics (Hassan, 2014), as well as some the Chinese coins found in the city of Dhofar (Uthman, 2000).…”

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Chinese Islamic Ceramics at the Museum of Niujie Mosque “An analytical Study”

Hagras

2022

مجلة کلیة الآثار . جامعة القاهرة

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This paper aims to study, publish and examine a collection of new seven ceramic wares of the Museum of Niujie Mosque in Beijing, which have never been studied before. This collection dates back to the Ming-Qing periods. This study tries to explain the technical methods and raw materials of these pieces, as well as decorations, which were characterized by harmony, richness, and consistency between shape and content, also tries hard to understand the intellectual and symbolic aims of the Chinese Muslim artists. As well as exploring the political circumstances during that time, which certainly led to the emergence of this type of Chinese porcelain, and revealing the common features of Chinese Islamic ceramics. After reviewing the shapes, decorative patterns and scripts, it was concluded that the appearance of this type of porcelain is a result of the influence of local Islamic culture. In addition, it is a logical demand for the economic requirements, as large quantities of this type of porcelain were exported to the Islamic world. On the other hand, Chinese ceramics with Arabic scripts are evidence of Islamic heritage that was formalized by official kilns witch controlled by the Chinese court during the Ming and Qing periods. The study is a new value on Islamic arts in the Far East, and it also adds an important value in the field of Islamic arts.

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“…Another 5 % were blue-and-white striped, checked, or plaid linens. The remaining 5 % included textiles of wool, silk, cotton, hemp, and reed (Kubiak & Scanlon, 1989). While this mix may represent the ratio of fibers used by the population at large, virtually all but the wool and silk-and the percentage of them was so small it would hardly have mattered-would have been appropriate raw material for Fustat's paper mills.…”

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“…Native Egyptian linen became increasingly expensive and for the first time upper-class Muslims began to wear garments made from European woolen broadcloth, rather than from domestic linen (Mayerson, 1997). The increased availability of European woolens and declining Egyptian production of linen meant that fewer raw materials were available for Egyptian papermakers, and Italian papermakers were more than happy to flood the market, particularly since increased quantities of linen (and consequently rags) had become available in Europe due to several late-medieval technical innovations including the flax-breaker and the spinning-wheel (Bloom, 2001, p. 83;Strayer, 1982-1989.…”

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Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique

Bloom

2017

Mobilities of Knowledge

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Paper was invented in China in the centuries before Christ and carried by Buddhist monks throughout East and Central Asia (Tsien, 1985), where Muslim Arabs encountered it in the eighth century CE. Muslims carried paper and papermaking to the Mediterranean region, and European Christians there learned how to make it by the twelfth century. Europeans not only forgot their debt to Muslim papermakers but also remained ignorant of paper's origins in China, so that when they first encountered Chinese paper in the sixteenth century, they thought that the Chinese must have learned the art of papermaking from the ancient Egyptians! Europeans then carried paper and papermaking, along with printing, throughout the globe. While the history of paper has traditionally been overshadowed by the history of printing, the spread of paper and papermaking is arguably equally important, for this relatively permanent, cheap, and flexible material not only encouraged the spread of written culture across the globe but also transformed many other human activities.This paper studies mobilities of knowledge from the perspective of paper making by examining how and when this technique diffused from China across Eurasia to the Mediterranean region and from there to the rest of Europe in the period between 600 and 1500. The main factors that enhanced and impeded this spatial diffusion of knowledge were the availability of raw materials and the adoption of differing technologies, but the roles of mediating aspects such as religion, trade, emigration, imports, and exports will also be discussed.

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Fusṭāṭ Expedition: Preliminary Report, 1966

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Fāṭimid gardens: archaeological and historical perspectives

Fāṭimid gardens: archaeological and historical perspectives

Chinese Islamic Ceramics at the Museum of Niujie Mosque “An analytical Study”

Papermaking: The Historical Diffusion of an Ancient Technique

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