The 11th International Congress on the Ottoman Archeology Corpus will take place in Zaghouan on September 18, 19 and 20, 2014, announces the TEMIMI Foundation. This congress will in particular look at the need to establish a map of sites and monuments in the Ottoman geographic space and a corpus of funeral inscriptions and religious monuments as witnesses of Arabic memory during the Ottoman era. The 11th Congress on the Ottoman corpus will bring together an elite of archaeologists with very varied works relating to religious monuments, Many tombs placed today in Tunisian, Algerian, Egyptian or Libyan museums. These inscriptions concern Arab dignitaries, thus confirming the opening of the Ottoman territorial space to scholars, sheikhs, traders and pilgrims going to the holy places.
In this context, an archaeologist decided to embark on the preparation of a map of Ottoman sites and monuments on the scale of the Arab countries. This work which requires collegiality and collaboration on the part of Arab-Turkish institutions to save what can be, is slowed down, partly because of the negligence of these Arab and Turkish officials, specify the organizers.
During the conferences which will be presented during this congress, there will be talk of different funeral inscriptions in the Ottoman space, the construction and restoration of the Zaouias. It will also be a question of looking at the inscriptions of the monuments of the Mutasawifa in the Maghreb, places of meeting of the faithful for prayer or to follow lessons of scholars. An appeal is also launched to Turkey which has long neglected this corpus, and to Turkish archaeologists who do not participate in this congress cycle, started 18 years ago.
This congress is also part of this context of events that shake the Arab countries and which are accompanied by partial or total destruction of historic monuments, mosques, cemeteries as well as the zaouias and religious sanctuaries. And nothing could stop this process of destruction, neither local authorities nor international laws while excavations on archaeologists have been damaged, objects have been stolen, no more surveillance is exercised and certain museums have been robbed without the Arab, Turkish and international authorities could not do much to prevent all this.
List of participants
Abidi-Belhadj, Beya (Higher Institute of Studies Applied in Humanities-Gafsa): “The resorts around the city of Tunis in the Ottoman era: some aspects of urban expansion of the local campaign”
Beldjouzia, Bouabdallah (Univ.boubaker Belkaed, Tlemcen): “The architectural construction of Bey Mohamedben Othman El-Kebir in the Oran”
Benbella, Khira (Institute of Archeology, Univ d’Algiers2): “Religious monuments in the city of Algiers in the Husottoman through the work of Prof. Albert Devaux”
Ben Mefteh, Toffaha (doctoral student at the University of Tunis): “The most famous Zaouia at Ras El Jebel (Bizerte) during the 18 and 19th centuries”
Ben Sassi, Ali, (University of Provence): “Tripolitan inscriptions: some reflections on the establishment of an Ottoman epigraphy corpus”
Dahdouh Abdelkader (Tipaza University Center – Algeria): “Systematic study of the composition of funeral testimonies in Algiers in the Ottoman era”
Daoulatli Abdelaziz (National Institute of Heritage – Tunis): “Some inscriptions from the Ottoman and Husseinite period of the Great Mosque of Tunis”
Djaker Lahcène (Univ. Moaskar-Algiers): “The Mosque of Ain-Al-Baydha: its historical place and its role during the two Ottoman elements”
Hamdouch, Zahira (Tipaza University Center – Algeria): “The tombs in East Algerian during the Ottoman era”
Hsayri, Ramla (National Heritage Institute – Tunis): “About an inscription from the history of the Elbattan 1254 Hejri phosphate factory”
Jarray, Fathi (academic – Tunis): “The corpus of inscriptions in the island of Djerba”
Laazizi Mohamed (University – Tunis): “The important monuments of Mutasawefet women in the city of Tunis in the Ottoman era”
Louati Mohamed (National Heritage Institute – Tunis): “About the monuments of the city of Sousse during the first half of the 20th century through a Deftar des Awkafs n ° 8500”
Mehtari Fayza (Univ. Boubaker Belkaed, Tlemcen): “The funeral inscriptions of Arab scholars during the Ottoman era in the Tlemcen museum”
Othman, Ammar, (National Heritage Institute-Tunis): “Conservation and restoration of the Zawiyade Sîdî Belhassan al-Karray in Sfax”
Nasser Zouheir ((National Institute of Heritage – Tunis): “Consideration on the religious monuments of the city of Moknine in the Sahel during the modern era”
Nechar Khadija (Institute of Archeology – Univ. D’Algiers): “Civic monuments in the city of Algiers in the Ottoman era (palaces and residences)”
Saadaoui Ahmed (Maghreb archeology and monuments laboratory, Univ de la Manouba – Tunis): “Laturba de Kara Mustafa Dey: a Tunisian funerary monument from the beginning of the 18th century”
Tamelikecht Hadjira (Institute of Archeology – Univ. D’Algiers): “The city monuments in the city of Algiers in the Ottoman era (palaces and residences)”
Yahiaoui Eloumeri (Univ. Boubaker Belkaed, Tlemcen): “Funeral inscriptions: study on the opinion of the Fukaha on this question and the position of the Muslim artist towards him”
