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...
Wednesday 26 June 2024 (18.00 CET and 18.00 Libya Time), we’ll have the pleasure to host the ninth session of our monthly webinar Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya, 7th-16th centuries (cycle 2023-2024). On Zoom, Naser Alharari (Department of Antiquities, Benghazi, 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...
Wednesday 22 May 2024 (18.00 CET and 18.00 Libya Time), we’ll have the pleasure to host the eight session of our monthly webinar Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya, 7th-16th centuries (cycle 2023-2024). On Zoom, Mohamed Ghodhbane (University of Tunis al-Manar, Tunisia)...
by Perrine Pilette (CNRS, Paris, France) This paper focuses on the references to Libya in the corpus of Coptic-Arabic historiography, i.e. the historiographical texts written in Arabic by Copts from the 11th century CE onwards. In doing so, we will...
Wednesday 21 February 2024 (18.00 CET and 19.00 Libya Time), we’ll have the pleasure to host the sixth session of our monthly webinar Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya, 7th-16th centuries (cycle 2023-2024). On Zoom, Perrine Pilette (National Center for Scientific Research,...
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...
Wednesday 24 January 2024 (18.00 CET and 19.00 Libya Time), we’ll have the pleasure to host the fifth session of our monthly webinar Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya, 7th-16th centuries (cycle 2023-2024). On Zoom, Houcine Khlifi (University of Sousse, Tunisia) will...
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...
Wednesday 20 December 2023 (18.00 CET and 19.00 Libya Time), we’ll have the pleasure to host the fourth session of our monthly webinar Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya, 7th-16th centuries (cycle 2023-2024). On Zoom, Zuha Sa’d al-Sadiq (Omar al-Mukhtar University, El-Beyda,...
