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An audio platform for the study of the pre-modern Islamic(ate) past and beyond. We interview academics, archivists and artists on their work for peers and junior students in the field. We aim to educate, inspire, perhaps infuriate, and on the way entertain a little too. https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast Suitable also for general listeners with an interest in geographically diverse medieval history.
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June 1, 2024
<h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;">Ep4. The City on The Tigris: Baghdad, Drinking and Water Transport</h2> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Medieval Baghdad was probably home to 200,000 to 500,000 inhabitants. In this episode we look at how water functioned as the life blood of this great city, providing drink, but also transportation that supplied the city with food and connected it with trade routes in Indian Ocean and beyond.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Speakers: Hugh Kennedy, Josephine van den Bent. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at SOAS in the University of London and from 2022 he has been teaching in the History Department at University College London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Josephine van den Bent is a researcher on the Source of Life project at Radboud University and assistant professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and Jouke Heringa.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><strong>Further reading</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Hugh Kennedy, “The Feeding of the 500.000: Cities and Agriculture in Early Islamic Mesopotamia,” <em>Iraq</em> 73 (2011): 177–199.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Josephine van den Bent & Peter Brown, “On Strong Vaults with Solidly Constructed Arches: Urban Waterways in the Cities of Early Islam,” <em>Al-Masāq</em> (2024).</p> <p><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> Josephine van den Bent, “Caliphal Involvement in Water Provision in the Cities of the Early ʿAbbāsid Period,” <em>Journal of Abbasid Studies</em> (2024).<br /> <br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Edmund Hayes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/Hedhayes20"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">twitter.com/Hedhayes20</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes</span></a></p> <p><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"><a href= "https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/"><span style= "line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;">https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/</span></a><br /> </span></span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;"> <strong>Abbasid History Podcast is sponspored by IHRC Bookshop</strong><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases online and in-store. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit IHRC bookshop at <a href= "https://shop.ihrc.org">shop.ihrc.org</a> and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href= "https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast">https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast</a></span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> </span></p>
May 2, 2024
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">The bathhouse is an iconic feature of the medieval middle eastern city up until the present. But how did this come to be? In this episode we look into the origins of bathing culture in the Middle East by going back to the Roman, late antique and early Islamic development of bathhouses.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Speakers: Nathalie de Haan and Sadi Maréchal. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Nathalie de Haan is an associate professor in ancient history at Radboud University, Department of History, Art History and Classics and RICH (Radboud Institute for Culture &History). She is the coordinator of the RICH research group The Ancient World. Her research interest include baths and bathing in the Roman world, Pompeii and Herculaneum and the history of classical archaeology in modern Italy (19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> centuries).</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Sadi Maréchal is senior postdoctoral researcher of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) based at the department of Archaeology at Ghent University, part of the Historical Archaeology Research Group, the Mediterranean Archaeology Research Unit and coordinator of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and Jouke Heringa.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><strong>Further Reading</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nathalie de Haan & Kurt Wallat, <em>Die Zentralthermen (Terme Centrali) in Pompeji: Archäologie eines Bauprojektes</em>, Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 71 (Rome: Quasar, 2023). (see:</span> <a href= "https://edizioniquasar.it/products/die-zentralthermen-terme-centrali-in-pompeji-archaologie-eines-bauprojektes"> <span style= "mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; color: blue; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm; background: white; mso-fareast-language: NL;"> https://edizioniquasar.it/products/die-zentralthermen-terme-centrali-in-pompeji-archaologie-eines-bauprojektes</span></a>)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nathalie de Haan <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Si aquae copia patiatur.</em> Pompeian Private Baths and the Use of Water”, Chapter 4, in A.O. Koloski-Ostrow (ed.), <em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Water Use and Hydraulics in the Roman City</em>, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company (Archaeological Institute of America, Colloquia and Conference Papers, Vol. 3, 2001)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 6.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sadi Maréchal, <em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Public Baths and Bathing Habits in Late Antiquity. A Study of the Evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285–700</em> (Late Antique Archaeology Supplementary Series 6), Leiden: Brill 2020.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 6.0pt; line-height: normal; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sadi Maréchal, Washing the Body, Cleaning the Soul : Baths and Bathing Habits in a Christianising Society, <em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Antiquité Tardive</em> 28 (2020): 167–176.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">F. Yegül, <em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bathing in the Roman World</em> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)<em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<br /> <br /></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Edmund Hayes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/Hedhayes20"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">twitter.com/Hedhayes20</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes</span></a></p> <p><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"><a href= "https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/"><span style= "line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;">https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/</span></a><br /> </span></span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;"> <strong>Abbasid History Podcast is sponspored by IHRC Bookshop</strong><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases online and in-store. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit IHRC bookshop at <a href= "https://shop.ihrc.org">shop.ihrc.org</a> and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href= "https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast">https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><em style= "mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </em></span></p>
April 1, 2024
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap"> <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);">Part of the “Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East” project (Radboud Institute for Culture and History). <br /> <br /> Ep2. Mesopotamia: Taming the Euphrates<br /> <br /></span></span>Mesopotamia means “the land between the rivers.” The fertile silt and life-giving waters from the rivers Tigris and Euphrates allowed the region to develop into a key area of human settlement and culture in the late Holocene around 12000 years ago. In this episode we discuss the earliest settlements in Mesopotamia and how humans have managed their rela.tionship to the rivers in Iraq up until today.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">Speaker: Jaafar Jotheri. Interviewer: Edmund Hayes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">Dr. Jaafar Jotheri is Assistant Professor in Geo-Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah</span><br /> <span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;"> https://csm-qadiss.academia.edu/JaafarJotheri</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">This episode was produced by Edmund Hayes and Jouke Heringa.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><br /> Further Reading</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">“Tigris-Euphrates River System”, <em>Encyclopaedia Britannica</em>, <a href= "https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system">https://www.britannica.com/place/Tigris-Euphrates-river-system</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">T Wilkinson, L Rayne, J Jotheri, “Hydraulic landscapes in Mesopotamia: the role of human niche construction” <em>Water History</em> 7 (4), 397-418</span></p> <p><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"><span style= "line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> TJ Wilkinson, J Jotheri “The Origins of Levee and Levee-Based Irrigation in the Nippur Area–Southern Mesopotamia” <em>From Sherds to Landscapes: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of McGuire Gibson</em>, SAOC 71, edited by Mark Altaweel and Carrie Hritz <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2021).</span><br /> <br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style= "text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12pt;">Edmund Hayes</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/Hedhayes20"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">twitter.com/Hedhayes20</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-hayes-490913211/</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href= "https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes"><span style= "font-size: 12pt;">https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/EdmundHayes</span></a></p> <p><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"><a href= "https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/"><span style= "line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;">https://hcommons.org/members/ephayes/</span></a><br /> </span></span></p> <p><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;"> <strong>Abbasid History Podcast is sponspored by IHRC Bookshop</strong><br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Listeners get a 15% discount on all purchases online and in-store. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Visit IHRC bookshop at <a href= "https://shop.ihrc.org">shop.ihrc.org</a> and use discount code AHP15 at checkout. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Terms and conditions apply. Contact IHRC bookshop for details.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href= "https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast">https://linktr.ee/abbasidhistorypodcast</a></span></p> <p><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class= "yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style= "color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"> </span></span></p>
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