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Jere Bacharach

  • Professor Emeritus
    Early Islamic, Medieval, and Modern Middle East, Ottoman Empire; Slavery, Numismatics
    Email: jere@uw.edu
    Phone: (206) 543-5790
    Office: SMI 10
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  • Education

    Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1967.

    Selected Bibliography

    Books and Pamphlets: Authored and Edited:
    And Adon A. Gordus.  Determining the Silver Content of Coins Non-Destructively Using Neutron Activation Analysis.  Ann Arbor: Department of Chemistry, 1967. 10pp.

    Assistant Editor.  Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and History:  Studies in Honor of George C. Miles.  Dickran K. Kouymjian, ed. Beirut:  American University of Beirut Press, 1974.  478pp.

    A Near East Studies Handbook, 570 -1974.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974.  147 pp. 2nd ed., 1977. 166 pp.

    Co-editor with C. Sheikholeslami and J. Clear.  Near Eastern Civilizations Through Art. Seattle: University of Washington Extension Division, 1977. 48 pp.

    Co-editor with Irene A. Bierman.  The Warp and Weft of Islam.  Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 1978. 128pp.

    Co-editor with Norman D. Nicol. Paul Balog.  A Catalogue of Ayyubid Coins.  London:  Royal Numismatic Society, 1980. 334 pp.

    Norman D. Nicol, Raafat el-Nabarawy and Jere L. Bacharach.  Catalog of the Islamic Coins, Glass Weights, Dies and Medals in the Egyptian National Library.  (ARCE Catalogs.) Malibu, Ca.: Undena Publications, 1982. 313 pp.

    A Middle East Studies Handbook.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984 and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 160 pp. Reprint with corrections, 1986. 

    And Irene A. Bierman.  A Viewers Guide to Symbols of Islam: A Telecourse Series. Seattle: University of Washington Middle East Center - Occasional Papers #2, 1986. 85pp.

    Editor. Andrew S. Ehrenkreutz. Monetary Change and Economic History in the Medieval Muslim World. London, Varorium Reprints, 1992.

    Editor. Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt. [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1995].

    Co-editor with Lawrence I. Conrad and Patricia Crone.  Martin Hinds.  Studies in Early Islamic History. Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 4  [Princeton: Darwin Press, 1996].

    Editor. Fustat Finds: Beads, Coins, Medical Instruments, Textiles and Other Artifacts from the Awad Collection [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2002]

    Jere L. Bacharach, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarawy, Sherif Sayed Anwar and Ahmed Mohammed Yousef.  A Complete Catalog [Sylloge] of the Glass Weights, Vessel Stamps & Ring Weights in the Gayer-Anderson Museum [Mathaf Bayt al-Kritiliyya], Cairo – 2005 [www.amnumsoc.org] (A catalog of almost 1,100 items).

    Islamic History through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth Century Ikhshidid Coins, [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006]. [Co-winner, Samir Shamma Prize in Islamic Numismatics, Royal Numismatic Society of Great Britain, for 2006 -2007]

    Articles:
    "Early Islamic Mint Output."  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO).  X(1966):212-241.

    "Studies in the Fineness of Silver Coins."  JESHO .  XI(1968):298-317. 

    "A Few Unpublished Mamluk Dirhams."  American Numismatic Society Museum Notes (ANSMN) . XIV(1968):163-169.

    "Circassian Monetary Policy: Silver."  Numismatic Chronicle . 7th series. XI(1971):267-281.

    "Numismatic Studies in the Arab World."  American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter . 79(1971):14-16.

    (With Adon A. Gordus.) "The Purity of Sasanian Silver Coins:  An Introduction."  Journal of the American Oriental Society (JAOS) . 92(1972):280-283.

    "The Dinar versus the Ducat."  International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) . IV(1973):77-96.

    "Economic and Social Problems in Eleventh-Century Egypt."  American Philosophical Society for 1972 Year Book .  1973:558-559.

    (With Henri Amin Awad.) "The Problem of the Obverse and the Reverse in Islamic Numismatics."  Numismatic Chronicle .  7th series. XIII(1973):183-191.

    (With Henri Amin Awad.) "The Early Islamic Bronze Coinage of Egypt:  Additions." Near Eastern Numismatics ...  D.Kouymjian, ed. (Beirut: AUB Press, 1974):185-192.

    (With Henri Amin Awad.) "A Hoard of Ikhshidid Dirhams."  al-Abhath .  XXIV(1974):51-58.

    "Al-Ikhshid, the Hamdanids and the Caliphate: The Numismatic Evidence."  JAOS 94(1974):360-370.

    "Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid." Speculum. 1975:586-612.

    (With Samir Shamma).  "Les Premiers dirhems ikhshidides."  Revue numismatique. 6e serie.  XVII(1975):139-144.            

    "Circassian Monetary Policy: Copper." JESHO. XIX(1976):32-47.

    (With Henri Amin Awad.) "An Andarab Dirham of A.H. 270/ 883-884 A.D.”  Spink's Numismatic Circular.  Feb., 1976: 50-57. 

    "Circassian Mamluk Historians and their Quantitative Economic Data," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. (JARCE) XII (1975): 75-88.

    "Andarab and the Banijurids."  Afghanistan Journal. III(1976):147-150.

    "Foreign Coins, Forgers and Forgeries in Fifteenth Century Egypt."  Actes de 8eme congres International de Numismatique.  Paris: Bales, 1976:501-511.

    "Islamic Art."  Near Eastern Civilizations Through Art.  C. Sheikholeslami, et al., ed. Seattle: University of Washington Extension Division, 1977:31-45.

    "The Modern Arab World: A Select Bibliography." Middle East Review. XI(1978):51-53.

    "Hoard of Muslim Dirhams from Tel Ashdad," Atiqot. XIV(1981):83-92.

    "Note on a Late Mamluk Hoard of Dinars." Atiqot. XIV(1981):116-117.

    (With Irene A. Bierman.) "Oriental Carpets, Islamic Society and the West." Arts and Antiques.  March, 1981:64-73.

    "African Military Slaves in the Medieval Middle East: The Cases of Iraq (869-955) and Egypt (868 -1171)."  IJMES. XIII(1981):471-495.

    (With Henri Amin Awad.) "Rare Early Egyptian Islamic Coins and Coin Weights: The Awad Collection." JARCE.  XVIII(1981):51-56.

    "Monetary Movements in Egypt, 1171-1517."  Precious Metals and the Pattern of Commerce in the Late Medieval World Economy.  John Richards, ed. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina  Academic Press, 1983): 159-182.

    "al-Aziz."  Dictionary of the Middle Ages.  N.Y.: Charles  Scribner's Sons, 1983. II:28.

    "Palestine in the policies of Tulunid and Ikhshidid Governors of Egypt A.H. 254-358/868-969 A.D."  Egypt and Palestine: A Millenium of Association (868-1948). Ammon Cohen and Gabriel Baer, ed. (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1984): 51-65.

    "Ikhsidhids."  Dictionary of the Middle Ages.  1985 VI: 416-418.

    "The Islamic Middle East and Archaeology," Art and Archaeology in the Mediterranean World.  A.L.H. Robbins, ed. (Seattle: Seattle Society. Archeaological Institute of  America, 1985): 101-114. 

    "Islamic Damascus and Aleppo," Elba to Damascus: An Exhibition Catalogue. Harvey Weiss, ed. (Washington, D.C.,: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Services, 1985): 477-484.

    "Data Bank Uses: Examples from the Seattle Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art."  Arts & the Islamic World. IV, #4 (1987/1988):45-47.

    "Tulunids."  Dictionary of the Middle Ages. XII: 223-225.

    "The Coinage of the Baridi." Proceedings of the 10th International Numismatic Congress. (London, 1989): 391-400.

    "Administrative Complexes, Palaces, and Citadels: Changes in the Loci of Medieval Muslim Rule."  Ottoman Power and Urban Structure. I. Bierman, R. Abou-El-Haj, & D.  Preziosi, ed. (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1991): 105-122.

    "Muhammad b. Tughdj al-Ikhshid," Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., VII, 411.

    "The Court-Citadel: An Islamic Urban Symbol of Power." Urbanism in Islam, (Tokyo, 1989):III, 206-245.

    "The Coinage of Kafur," Israel Numismatic Journal, X (1988-9): 71-79.

    "Al-Mansur and Umayyad Dirhams," Yarmouk Numismatics, IV (1992): 7 - 17.  V (1993): 43.  Arabic translation by S. Shamma, pp. 27 - 38 (Arabic section).

    "Laqab for a Future Caliph: The Case of the Abbasid al-Mahdi," JAOS 113 (1993): 271-74.

    "Restoration and Conservation of Islamic Monuments in Egypt," Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt.  Number 161/162 [Summer/Spring 1993]: 19-20.

    "The Ducat in Fourteenth Century Egypt," Itineraires d'Orient: Rex Orientales: VI [1994]:95-102.

    With Dr. Siham al-Mahdi. "A Study in Fatimid [sic.] Numismatics," [in Arabic] The Egyptian Historian: Journal of the Department of History, Cairo University. X [Jan. 1993]: 107-19.

    "Al-Amin's Designated Successor: The Limitations of Numismatic Evidence," JAOS 1996: 108-13.

    "Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage," Muqarnas XIII[1996]: 27-44.

    “Islamic Numismatics: The State of the Art at the End of the Twentieth Century,” Yarmouk Numismatics 9(1997): 7-18.

    “Thoughts on Pennies and Other Monies,” Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 35.1 [Summer, 2001]: 2-14.

    “Continuity and Innovation in Islamic Coinage,” Bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt [ARCE] 180 [Summer, 2001]: 22-24.

    Fustat Finds [Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002]
    Introduction: pp. 1 – 11.
    With Elizabeth Rodenbeck, “Bone, Ivory and Wood,”  pp. 32 – 43.
    “Primary attributor: Ayyubid coins,” p. 60 – 62.
    With Elizabeth Rodenbeck, “Metal Objects,” pp. 198 – 205.

    “ARCE and French Institute Collaborate on Three-Year Project,” Bulletin of the ARCE 185 [Summer 2004]: 15.

    “'Reading’ Egyptian and Syrian Islamic Coinage,” Power of gold, Golds of Power: Exhibition of Gold Coins in the Yapi Kredi Collection [Istanbul: Yepi Kredi Yayainlari, 2004]: 69-77.

    “Islamic Stamped Glass in the Gayer-Anderson Museum, Cairo,” Bulletin of the ARCE 187 [2005]: 17-20.

    English Introduction to Jere L. Bacharach, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarawy, Sherif Sayed Anwar and Ahmed Mohammed Yousef.  A Complete Catalog [Sylloge] of the Glass Weights, Vessel Stamps & Ring Weights in the Gayer-Anderson Museum [Mathaf Bayt al-Kritiliyya], Cairo [www.amnumsoc.org] (A catalog of almost 1,100 items) 2005.

    “Playing with Coins: Examples from tenth-century Egypt,” Bulletin of the ARCE 191 [2007]: 43-47.

    With Sherif Sayed Anwar, Raafat Muhammad al-Nabarway, and Norman D. Nicol, “Digitalizing the Numismatic Items in the Egyptian National Library,” Bulletin of the ARCE 194 [2009]: 26-29.

    “Islamic History through Coins,” Hadeeth ad-Dar: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, State Kuwait. Volume 28 [2009]: 15 – 19.  Expanded version translated into Arabic in Arabic section, pp. 15-19.

    “Conserving Historic Cairo’s Splendid Legacy,” Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage Edited by Randi Danforth [Cairo: American Research Center in Egypt / Sahara Press, 2010]: 157-161.

    “Baridi, al-,” E.I. 3rd [2010]:    .

    “Signs of Sovereignty: the shahada, Qur’anic verses, and the coinage of Abd al-Malik [65-86/685-705],” Muqarnas  27 [2010]: 1-30.

    (With Sherif Anwar) “Shi’ism and the early dinars of the Fatimid Imam-caliph al-Mu’izz li-din Allah [AH 341-365 /AD 952975], al-Masaq 22 [2010]: 259-78.

    “The Inscriptions on ‘Abd al-Malik’s all-epigraphic coinage” Abgadiyat [The Journal of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina] 5[2011]: 33-38.

    Accepted and forthcoming:
    (With Sherif Anwar) “Coinage and their Visual Messages in the Age of the Sultanate: The Case of Egypt and Syria,” [IFAO Publication].

    “Tenth-Century Egyptian Coins with Human Representation,” Islamic Art

    “Study on Ikhshidid – Central Asian relations ,” Journal of the Department of History, Cairo University [Accepted for a special issue in honor of Hassanein Rabie, 2009]

    “Early versions of the shahada: An Aswan tombstone of 71 A.H., the Dome of the Rock, and contemporary coinage (with Sherif Anwar)” [Conference papers on the Stele of Aswan.]

    “Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Numismatic Evidence” [Conference on the Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of Islamic Societies, Ben Gurion University, 2009].