Muḥammad al-Zuwārī (Institut supérieur d’arts et métiers de Tataouine, University of Gabes, Tunisia) التعمير والمعمار بجبل نفوسة خلال العصر الوسيط،مجمع الأطرش، تونس، 2024 المجتمع النفوسي خلال العصر الوسيط، جدلية المحلي والوافد، دار المقدمة، تونس، 2024 Introduction The articulation centre-periphery lies at...
Mostafa El-Burki (Department of Archaeology, University of Benghazi, Libya) Initially, the geographical location of the city of Zawīla and its historical significance are introduced, followed by a discussion of the origin of its name and the various names it was...
Lamya SHARFEDDINE (Department of History, University of Tripoli, Libya) Introduction The issue of women in Ibadism has been the subject of attention for a long time. It relies on a rich corpus, as the following sources testify: al-Wārǧilānī, Kitāb al-Sīra wa-aḫbār...
Naser ALHARARI (Department of Antiquities, Benghazi, Libya) The city of Bārkī/Barca (al-Marǧ/El Merj) is located in the oriental part of Libya, Cyrenaica, about 100 km east from Euhesperides/Hesperis (Benghazi, today) — one of the five cities of the Pentapolis along with the...
Dear friends and colleagues, the LibMed team is delighted to share the news that our friend Hafed Abdouli (University of Sfax, Tunisia) has been invited to deliver a talk at the Libyan Center for Archives and Historical Studies (Tripoli, Libya)...
Mohamed GHODHBANE (University al-Manar/Tunis, Tunisia) Introduction The actual capital city of Libya is called Ṭarābulus al-Ġarb. It was Ṭarābulus under the Hafsids and Aṭrābulus under the Umayyads, but we find both for the Fatimid-Zirid period. Arabic sources, official documents and...
Houcine KHLIFI (University of Sousse, Tunisia) Introduction This study questions the relations between fiqh and history through the lense of Kitāb al-Luqaṭ by al-Šammāḫī. According to al-Warǧilānī, the imam Abū l-Ḫaṭṭāb established the first Ibāḍī emirate near Tripoli (in Ṣayyād) in 140/757. Later, in the...
LibMed is an international team of researchers working on medieval Libya. The new French law on immigration (19/12/2023) poses a number of scientific threats. The matter of quantity. Quotas imposed by the new text imply restrictions for students and colleagues....
Zuha Sa’d al-Sadiq (Omar al-Mukhtar University, El-Beyda) Cyrenaica entered the Islamicate under ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ (governor of Egypt) as a ṣulḥ province against the payment of a regular ḫarāǧ which amounted to 13,000 dinars. Barqa became the western [military] basis from where expeditions could be...
