Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 54 2025

Contents

Guidelines and Transliteration

Editor’s Foreword

In Memoriam. Walter Wilhelm Müller (1933–2024), Khaldūn Hazzāʿ ʿAbduh Nuʿmān (1967–2024)

Interconnected buildings in the Old Town of AlUla and their social significance – Aljohara AlModarra, Marek Z. Barański & Apolline Vernet

Preliminary report on the epigraphic survey in Yanbuʿ, Saudi Arabia: first season (2023) – Ajab Alotibi, Risa Tokunaga, Majed Dahash & Muzhira Alqahtani

The Yemeni mummies: a brief report and comprehensive bibliography – Mohammed A. Atbuosh & Amgad E.M. Abdulmughni

The ‘cupola’ of the Ṣanʿāʾ cathedral: it still exists – Werner Daum

The nature of post-Bronze Age human occupation at Tell Abraq (Umm al‑Quwain): archaeological insights from the 2023 field season – Michele Degli Esposti, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Federico Borgi, Francesca Barchiesi & Rania Hussein Kannouma

Dating early narratives of the Hijra – Adrien de Jarmy

The first excavation season at Shokur: a multi-period fortified settlement between desert and mountains – Francesco Genchi, Nunzia Larosa, Giampiero Tursi, Guido Antinori, Francesco Caputo & Valentina Mili

Piecing together the evidence: architecture, inscriptions, and sherds from an early to middle Islamic funerary context in Qurḥ/al‑Mabiyāt – Stefanie Janke, Friedrich W. Weigel, Mustafa Ahmad & Arnulf Hausleiter

Exploring the diversity of tomb typology with accompanied burial practices in its socio-economic contexts in the Wadi Suq period (c.2000–1600 BC), south-east Arabia – Taichi Kuronuma

The emergence of South Arabian urban societies: the material culture from abroad in context – Romolo Loreto

Funerary rituals on Qurayyah’s painted pottery – Marta Luciani

Can community-based participatory research enhance our understanding of Arabian archaeology?               – Selin Nugent, Jennifer Swerida, Nora al‑Aati, Reilly Jensen & Cindy Srnka

A rural perspective on the Umm an-Nar and Wadi Suq periods from Burj Huraiz (northern Oman) – Eric Olijdam, Bleda Düring, Michel de Vreeze & Zoë van Litsenburg

The onomasticon of the Himaitic and Ancient South Arabian inscriptions from Ḥimā: a comparative overview and insights into their cultural and linguistic layers – Alessia Prioletta

Muʿtariḍ Community Mall: more insights into the development of the hydraulic, agricultural, and funerary landscapes of al‑‘Ayn (UAE) – Peter Sheehan, Nour Al Marzooqi, Mohammed Khalifa & Malak Al Ajou

An Iron Age artefact hoard discovered at Saruq as-Hadid-53 archaeological site, Dubai, UAE: a preliminary study – Mariam A. Al Suwaidi, Joseph W. Lehner & Bader M. Al Ali

The production of Bahlā Ware in the context of late Islamic Oman – Jelena Živković, José Cristobal Carvajal López, Irini Biezeveld & Stephanie Döpper

Focus session ‘Zaydi governance in Yemen between legal theory and political practice’

Introduction

Dhimma governance and the Zaydī madhhab spectrum: the forced conversion of Jewish orphans, its Islamic legal background, and political relevance – Kerstin Hünefeld

The Yemeni Zaydi school of law: a brief history of its textual tradition (third/tenth–tenth/sixteenth century) – Ebrahim Mansoor

Transfer of power in the Sharaf al‑Dīn imamate (912–980/1506–1573): theory and practice – Ekaterina Pukhovaia

Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024