P.O. Box 1886 , Al Akhawayn University, Avenue Hassan II, Ifrane, Morocco 53 000

Telephone: +212 535862477   Fax:+212-535862977

Email: s.ennahid     aui.ma

Dr. Said ENNAHID

Education

PhD. Anthropology

Arizona State University, 2001

        

Middle Eastern and North African Archaeology and History

Islamic Art History, Architecture, and Urbanism

Medieval Historiography and Historical Geography

Contemporary Islamic Societies of North Africa

E-Heritage (use of Information and Communication Technologies in cultural heritage)

Research Interests

Representative publications

Membership

Society for American Archaeology

Middle East Studies Association of North America

Middle East Medievalists (MEM)

Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)

World History Association

The Islamic Manuscript Association

The Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association (Founding Member, Former Board Member)

Association des Lauréats de l’Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (Founding Member)

The International Council on Monuments and Sites, ICOMOS-Morocco

The International Council on Monuments and Sites, International Committee on Cultural Routes, ICOMOS-CIIC (Associate Member)

Association des Lauréats de l’Institut National des Sciences de l’Archéologie et du Patrimoine (Founding Member)

Books

 

2002 : Political Economy and Settlement Systems of Medieval Northern Morocco: An Archaeological-Historical Approach.  Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, International Series No. S1059, Archaeopress, Oxford.

 

Journal Articles/Chapter in Edited Books/Encyclopedia Entries

 

2011    Cities of the Almohad Empire.  In World History Encyclopedia, Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500. Editor: Alfred J. Andrea, Vol. 9, pp. 38-40, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

2011       Information and Communication Technologies for the Preservation and Valorization of Manuscript Collections in Morocco.  In The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, Editors: Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Library of The Written Word, Vol. 8, The Manuscript World, Vol. 3, pp. 265-289, Brill, Leiden-Boston.

 

2009      “Chemical Analyses of Pottery and Clays from the Islamic City of al-Basra and Its Hinterland in Northern Morocco.”, Nancy L. Benco, M. James Blackman, Michael D. Glascock, Hector Neff, and Robert J. Speakman (co-authors).  In Actas del VIII Congreso Interancional de Cerámica Medieval en el Mediterráneo (Ciudad Almagro del 27 de febrero al 3 de marzo de 2006), edited by Juan Zozaya Stabel-Hansen, Manuel Retuerce Velasco, Miguel Ángel Hervás Herrera, and Antonio De Juan García. Asociación Española de Arqueología Medieval, pp. 673-684, Vol. 2, Ciudad Real.

 

2007    The Archaeology of Space in Moroccan Oral Tradition:  The Case of Malhun Poetry.  In Quaderni di Studi Arabi, Nuova Serie, 2 (Popular Arabic Poetry and Song; Guest Editor: Clive Holes; General Editor: Giovanni Canova), pp. 71-84.