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