IsIAO Islamic Projects
After Scerrato’s death, in 2004, the Italian Insitute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO) charged Maria Vittoria Fontana with collecting all the Islamic projects that had not been completed yet and publishing them.
Two specifically archaeological projects (the excavations at Ghazni in Afghanistan and at Udegram in Pakistan), two cataloguing architectural projects (the wooden mosques of Pakistan, and the religious architecture of Yemen), and a ethnographic project (the wooden artifacts of Pakistan) were identified.
Maria Vittoria Fontana appointed a responsible to each project. The responsible of Islamic Ghazni. An IsIAO Archaeological Project in Afghanistan is Dr. Roberta Giunta (University of Naples L’Orientale); the responsible of Islamic Udegram. An IsIAO Archaeological Project in Pakistan is Dr. Alessandra Bagnera (University of Tuscia); the responsible of The Wooden Mosques. An IsIAO Architectural Project in Pakistan is Dr Francesco Noci (Sapienza, Roma); the responsible of The Islamic Religious Architecture of Yemen. An IsIAO Cataloguing Project in Yemen is Prof. Giovanna Ventrone (formerly University of Naples L’Orientale); the responsible of The Wooden Artifacts. An IsIAO Ethnographic Project in Pakistan is Dr Ilaria E. Scerrato (etnographist, Rome). Each responsible was given the charge to put together a team of specialists and young scholars.
Bibliography:
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- Maria Vittoria FONTANA, La fortuna di un ‘ağā’ib?, in Studi in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, eds. M. Bernardini & N.L. Tornesello, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Napoli 2005, I vol., pp. 441-456;
- Maria Vittoria FONTANA, A Note on the Relationship between Some Ghaznavid and Byzantine Graffita Wares, in To Maurizio Taddei, eds. P. Callieri & A. Filigenzi, vol. monografico di East and West, 55/1-4, 2005, pp. 117-127;
- Maria Vittoria FONTANA, Islamic archaeology in Afghanistan: the past and the new IsIAO projects, in Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the Symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008, Conferenze, vol. 21, Roma (IsIAO) 2009, pp. 77-88;
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- Roberta GIUNTA & Cécile BRESC, Listes de la titulature des Ghaznavides et des Ghurides à travers les documents numismatiques et épigraphiques, Eurasian Studies, III/2, 2004, pp. 161-243;
- Roberta GIUNTA, Testimonianze epigrafiche dei regnanti ghaznavidi a Ghazni, in Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, eds. M. Bernardini & N.L. Tornesello, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Napoli 2005, II vol., pp. 525-555;
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- Roberta GIUNTA, Ghazni, in Enciclopedia Archeologica, Istituto Italiano dell’Enciclopedia, Roma, vol. Asia, 2005, pp. 962-965;
- Roberta GIUNTA, Les inscriptions persanes dans l’épigraphie monumentale de la ville de Ghazni (Afghanistan) aux 6e-7e/12e-13e siècle, in “Iranian Identity in the Course of History”, Proceedings of the Conference Held in Rome, 21-24 September 2005, ed. Carlo G. Cereti, with the assistance of Chiara Barbati, Matteo De Chiara and Gianfilippo Terribili, IsIAO (Orientalia Romana 9), Roma 2010, pp. 163-180;
- Roberta GIUNTA, New Epigraphic Data from the Excavations of the Ghaznavid Palace of Mas‘ud III at Ghazni (Afghanistan), in South Asian Archaeology 2007. Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007, eds Pierfrancesco Callieri & Luca Colliva, Oxford 2010, Vol. 2: Historic Periods, pp. 123-131;
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- Roberta GIUNTA, The Renewel of the Activities of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan: the Emerging Retrieval of Documents and Finds of Islamic Epoch in Ghazni, in Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Ancient Near East. “Sapienza” – Università di Roma, May, 5th-10th 2009, Wiesbaden, 2010, III – Islamic Session, pp. 75-90;
- Martina RUGIADI, La decorazione architettonica in marmo di Ghazni (Afghanistan), Tesi di Dottorato, 5 voll., Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Napoli 2007;
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- Martina RUGIADI, Documenting marbles of the Islamic period from the area of Ghazni. The Italian contribution (1957-2007), in Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the Symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008, Conferenze, vol. 21, Roma (IsIAO) 2009, pp. 105-115;
- Alessandra BAGNERA, Udegram, in Enciclopedia Archeologica, Istituto Italiano dell’Enciclopedia, Roma, vol. Asia, 2005, p. 998;
- Alessandra BAGNERA, Preliminary Note on the Islamic Settlement of Udegram, Swat. The Islamic Graveyard (11th-13th century A.D.), The 50th Anniversary of the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1956-2006), ed. L.M. Olivieri, vol. monografico di East and West, 56/1-3, 2006, pp. 205-228;
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- Alessandra BAGNERA & Gabriella MANNA, Recipienti da fuoco e da dispensa provenienti dall’abitato islamico sul monte Raja Gira (Udegram, Swat, Pakistan), in Atti del XXXIX Convegno Internazionale della Ceramica, Albisola, 2006, pp. 319-320;
- Roberta GIUNTA, A Selection of Islamic Coins from the Excavations of Udegram, Swat, The 50th Anniversary of the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1956-2006), ed. L.M. Olivieri, vol. monografico di East and West, 56/1-3, 2006, pp. 237-262;
- Gabriella MANNA, Some Observations on the Pottery from the Islamic Settlement of Udegram, Swat, The 50th Anniversary of the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1956-2006), ed. L.M. Olivieri, vol. monografico di East and West, 56/1-3, 2006, pp. 229-235;
- Francesco NOCI, Abitati e monumenti del periodo islamico – Residential Structures and Monuments of the Islamic Period, Valli della Memoria. Antiche genti, Luoghi e Immagini dello Swat. 50 anni della Missione Archeologica dell’IsIAO in Pakistan, eds. P. Callieri, L. Colliva, M. Galli, R. Micheli, E. Morigi & L.M. Olivieri, IsIAO, Roma 2006, pp. non numerate.
- Francesco NOCI, Beyond the Swat Valley. Research on Wooden Architecture to Other Areas of Northern Pakistan, The 50th Anniversary of the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1956-2006), ed. L.M. Olivieri, vol. monografico di East and West, 56/1-3, 2006, pp. 263-274;
- Francesco NOCI, Oltre l’archeologia: le moschee lignee (XVIII-XX sec. d.C.) – Beyond Archaeology: the Wooden Mosques (18th-19th cent. A.D.), Valli della Memoria. Antiche genti, Luoghi e Immagini dello Swat. 50 anni della Missione Archeologica dell’IsIAO in Pakistan, eds. P. Callieri, L. Colliva, M. Galli, R. Micheli, E. Morigi & L.M. Olivieri, IsIAO, Roma 2006, pp. non numerate.
- Ilaria SCERRATO, Arte lignea nel Pakistan del Nord ovest / Wooden Craft of North Western Pakistan, DecArt. Rivista di arti decorative / A Magazine for the Decorative Arts, 4, 2005, pp. 94-105;
- Ilaria SCERRATO, Wood Carvers in Swat Valley. Fieldwork Documentation and Preliminary Analysis, The 50th Anniversary of the IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan (1956-2006), ed. L.M. Olivieri, vol. monografico di East and West, 56/1-3, 2006, pp. 275-299;
- Ilaria SCERRATO, Arte e tradizione del legno nella Valle dello Swat: la ricerca etnografica – The Living Tradition: Wooden Carvers in the Swat Valley, Valli della Memoria. Antiche genti, Luoghi e Immagini dello Swat. 50 anni della Missione Archeologica dell’IsIAO in Pakistan, eds. P. Callieri, L. Colliva, M. Galli, R. Micheli, E. MORIGI & L.M. OLIVIERI, IsIAO, Roma 2006, pp. non numerate;
- Ilaria SCERRATO, Wood Art from the Swat Valley. The Ethnographic Activity of the ISIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan, Fondazione L. Caetani, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 2009;
- Ilaria SCERRATO, Dwellings in the Snow: Living Traditions in the Braldu Valley (Baltistan), in South Asian Archaeology 2007. Proceedings of the 19th Meeting of the European Association of South Asian Archaeology in Ravenna, Italy, July 2007, eds Pierfrancesco Callieri & Luca Colliva, Oxford 2010, Vol. 2: Historic Periods, pp. 307-314;
Funding:
- IsIAO
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- EvK2CNR
