NEH Post-Doctoral and Professional Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.

FAIN: RA-50028-05

ARCE (Alexandria, VA 22314-1555)
Gerry D. Scott (Project Director: September 2004 to September 2010)

The equivalent of two full-year humanities fellowships a year, for each of two years.

The American Research Center in Egypt requests an NEH grant of $258,000 over a four year peiod to support an average of three long-term humanities fellowships for each of three years in a variety of disciplines including history, Islamic studies, literature, art history, Egyptology, political science, and the humanistic social sciences. ARCE also proposes to continue to offer two short-term multiple-year fellowships for museum curators in Islamic art; Coptic art; and Egyptian, pre-dynastic and pre-historic materials. Thse funds will provide scholars with living expenses and round-trip air transportation. ARCE also requests $6,000 for three years to publicize these opportunities and to support the selection of grantees.

Associated Products

Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (Book)
Title: Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria
Author: Nasser Rabat
Abstract: The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval architectural traditions, Mamluk architecture is actually a key to the social history of the period. Analyzing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and documentation as well as a cultural index, Mamluk History Through Architecture shows how the buildings mirror the complex -- and historically unique -- military, political, social and financial structures of Mamluk society. With this original and authoritative study Nasser Rabbat offers an innovative approach to the history of the Mamluks -- through readings of the spectacular architecture of the period. Drawing on examples from throughout both Egypt and Syria, from the Citadel and Al-Azhar Mosque of Cairo to the Mausoleum of al-Zahir Baybars in Damascus, Rabbat demonstrates how Mamluk architecture served to reinforce visually the spirit of the counter-Crusade, when the Muslim world rebounded from the setbacks of the First Crusade. Both holistically and in case studies, Rabbat demonstrates how history is inscribed into and reflected by a culture’s artifacts. This is a groundbreaking work in the study of architecture and social history in the Middle East and beyond.
Year: 2010
Secondary URL: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Mamluk+History+Through+Architecture%3A+Building%2C+Culture%2C+and+Politics+in+Mamluk+Egypt+and+Syria
Secondary URL Description: Amazon
Access Model: for sale
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1845119645

Irshad al-mughaffalin min fuqaha’ wa al-fuqara’ ila shuru? ?u?bat al-umara’ (The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs) (Book)
Title: Irshad al-mughaffalin min fuqaha’ wa al-fuqara’ ila shuru? ?u?bat al-umara’ (The Guidebook for Gullible Jurists and Mendicants to the Conditions for Befriending Emirs)
Author: Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha‘rani
Editor: Adam Sabra
Abstract: Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha‘rani is one of the best known Sufi thinkers in the Islamic tradition, and the most influential in the history of Egypt. His two most important treatises on relationship between Sufism and politics are published in critical editions for the first time here.
Year: 2013
Publisher: Institut Français D’Archéologie Orientale
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9782724706000
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The Citadel of Cairo (Book)
Title: The Citadel of Cairo
Author: Nasser O. Rabbat
Abstract: A short history of The Citadel, dating from 1176 to the present.
Year: 2010
Publisher: Supreme Council of Antiquities Press, Cairo
Type: Other
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Dynamics of Archaeological and Epigraphic Landscapes from Coptic Egypt (Book Section)
Title: Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Dynamics of Archaeological and Epigraphic Landscapes from Coptic Egypt
Author: Scott Bucking
Editor: M. Kersel
Editor: M. Rutz
Abstract: not available
Year: 2014
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Book Title: Archaeologies of Text, Archaeology, Technology and Ethics

The Beni Hassan in late Antiquity Project: Report on the 2014 Season (Article)
Title: The Beni Hassan in late Antiquity Project: Report on the 2014 Season
Author: Scott Bucking
Abstract: not available
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies Vol. 5 No. 2

Irony, Archaeology and the Rule of Rhyme: Two Readings of the Tasmu Luzumiyyah of Abu al-' Ala' al-Ma'arri (Article)
Title: Irony, Archaeology and the Rule of Rhyme: Two Readings of the Tasmu Luzumiyyah of Abu al-' Ala' al-Ma'arri
Author: Suzanne Stetkevych
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.3
Publisher: The American Oriental Society

Rhetoric, Hybridity and Performance in medieval Arabic-Islamic Devotional Poetry: Al-Kafiyah Badi'iyyah of Safi al-Din al'Hilli (Book Section)
Title: Rhetoric, Hybridity and Performance in medieval Arabic-Islamic Devotional Poetry: Al-Kafiyah Badi'iyyah of Safi al-Din al'Hilli
Author: Suzanne Stetkevych
Editor: Sabine Dorpmuller
Editor: Jan Scholz
Editor: Max Stille
Editor: Ines Weinrich
Abstract: Part of the series "Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality"
Year: 2018
Publisher: Heidelberg University Publishing
Book Title: Religion and Aesthetic Experience: Drama - Sermons - Literature

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