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Topics/Themes:

• The Fatimid Treasury

• The Wealth of the Church

• Lusterware, tiraz and other fine things

• The Gold trade with West Africa

• The search for rikzan “buried treasure”: a history of antiqas

Readings:

• Caiger-Smith, A. (1985). Lustre pottery: technique, tradition, and innovation in Islam and the Western world. London; Boston: Faber and Faber. (Ch. 3 “Egyptian Lustre of the Fatimid Period)

• Shalem, Avinoam. (1995). The dispersion of the Fatimid treasury (Ch.3) in Islam Christianized: Islamic Portable Objects in the Medieval Church Treasuries of the Latin West. Berlin: Peter Lang

• Gabra, G., and M. Eaton-Krauss. 2006. The treasures of Coptic art in the Coptic Museum and churches of Old Cairo, Supreme Council of Antiquities edition. Cairo; New York: A merican University in Cairo Press. (Look through the whole book but pay close attention to the sections entitled “The Church” and “The Churches of Old Cairo”)

• Daly, Okasha. (2005). Treasure Hunting (ch. 3). In Egyptology: the missing millennium. London: UCL pr