Zakia Elgoud (University of Benghazi) Introduction The Banū Tellīs are linked to the city of Bani Walid, ca 180 km SE of Tripoli. The name Warfalla — the local tribe which is also one of the major groups in Libya — could...
A. M’Charek (Prof. Emeritus, University of Tunis) This presentation revolves around the reassessment of the role played by the Berber tribes in Libya from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The “old thesis” postulates the arrival of the “New Berbers” at...
وبينار ليبميد 2023-2024 The first session has been postponed to October 4, 6.00 PM (CET). The official poster of our new programme is available (pdf and jpeg). Feel free to circulate! Our first session hosts on Wednesday 20 September our...
The LibMed team attended the international conference organized by IRMC Tunis to tackle many issues raised by the Libyan heritage (archaeological, manuscript and cultural). A workshop dedicated to the manuscript collections in Libya today followed at the National Library of...
The official website of the conference https://irmcmaghreb.org/situations-contemporaines-des-patrimoines-archeologiques-manuscrits-et-culturels-en-libye-et-au-maghreb/ L’IRMC organise, les 19 et 20 juin 2023 à Tunis, le colloque « Situations contemporaines des patrimoines archéologiques, manuscrits et culturels en Libye et au Maghreb : des richesses à préserver ? ». Ce colloque...
by Aurélien Montel and Louis Fandre Preamble Because of its close relationship to the Arabic world, Libya is a country for the study of which medieval and modern historians instinctively turn to arabic texts. Nowadays, however, there are but a...
by Entesar Bianco (Mohamed al-Senoussi University, al-Bayda, Libya) انتصار بيانكو جامعة محمد بن علي السنوسي، البيضاء، ليبيا The talk opened a series of sessions dedicated to the issue of manuscripts in Libya. The general reference on the topic remains Shambesh...
The seminar Mondes sahariens : sources, espaces, sociétés, VIIIe-XIXe siècle https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2022-2023/ue/289 organized by the team SaharaMed https://saharamed.hypotheses.org/225 has invited Sébastien Garnier and Aurélien Montel (LibMed) to talk about Ghadames in the Medieval Period. Here is the videoconference link for those who...
Actes du colloque international (Le Caire, 2-3 décembre 2017) (وقائع الندوة الدولية ،(القاهرة ، 2-3 ديسمبر 2017 The following proceedings could prove very interesting when discussing the contacts of the Libyan territories with Egypt from the pharaonic times to the...
Sébastien Garnier and Aurélien Montel had the pleasure to expose what LibMed is to a large audience at the séminaire “Actualités de la recherche en histoire et archéologie de l’Islam médiéval” (Paris, Sorbonne). Among the many guests, Dr. Salah Agab...
