Awet Teklehimanot Araya

Department: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Discipline: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Research Centre/Unit: Center for Islamic Archaeology

Project Summary

Thesis title: The Red Sea/E. Africa and The Gulf in the Islamic period: Connections through Archaeological ceramics analysis from Bahrain (8th-16th c. AD)

Awet T Araya’s current research interest is on the use of archaeological ceramics as indicators of the nature, scale, and dynamics of African migrations to Bahrain/the Arabian Gulf between the 8th and 19th centuries AD. He aims to extrapolate the various (yet overlapping) factors - Islam and Islamization, slavery, trade, conquest - that had an impact on the East African to Arabian Gulf networks.

 

Supervisory Team

Lead Supervisor: Professor Timothy Insoll

Second Supervisor: Dr. John P. Cooper

Second Supervisor: Dr. Emily Selove

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wider Research Interests

Islamic Archaeology

Archaeology of African Diaspora

Archaeology of Identity

Archaeology of the Red Sea and Eastern Africa