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Max van Berchem
Photo taken around 1913
Photo taken around 1913
Born16 March 1863
Geneva
Died7 March 1921 (1921-03-08) (aged 57)
Vaumarcus
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Edmond Maximilien Berthout van Berchem (16 March 1863, Geneva – 7 March 1921, Vaumarcus) commonly known as Max van Berchem, was a Swiss philologist, epigraphist and historian. Best known as the founder of Arabic epigraphy in the Western world, he was the mastermind of the Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum, an international collaboration among eminent scholars to collect and publish Arabic inscriptions from the Middle East.

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Max van Berchem

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Edmond Maximilien Berthout van Berchem (16 March 1863, Geneva – 7 March 1921, Vaumarcus) commonly known as Max van Berchem, was a Swiss philologist, epigraphist...

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Haifa

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Sharon, Moshe; Fondation Max van Berchem (2007). Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae addendum: squeezes in the Max van Berchem collection (Palestine...

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Turkey

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Ohta (1999). 10th International Congress of Turkish Art. Fondation Max Van Berchem. ISBN 978-2-05-101763-3. The first military training institutions were...

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Great Mosque of Kufa

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Great Mosque-Palace Complex of Kufa (2019) - Fondation Max van Berchem". Fondation Max Van Berchem. Retrieved 2023-10-16. "General Facts and Numbers". The...

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Stockalper Palace

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Picture of the Palace by Max van Berchem in 1902 Details of the Palace by Max van Berchem, 1902 Details of the Palace by Max van Berchem, 1902 Photochrom of...

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List of largest palaces

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Vol. 1. London (GB): British School of Archaeology in Iraq Fondation Max van Berchem. ISBN 978-0-903472-17-3. Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "UNESCO World...

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Mosul

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: 13  Later scholars such as Max van Berchem, Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu, and D.S. Rice all took a more skeptical view; van Berchem in particular argued that only...

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Sinjar

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minaret from this era, remarked on by the 19th-century epigraphist Max van Berchem, contains an inscription crediting Qutb ad-Din as the minaret's builder...

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Ribat of Arrifana

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by Aljezur municipality, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Max van Berchem Foundation. List of former mosques in Portugal "Ribat da Arrifana"...

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Ikhshidid dynasty

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The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 62. Max Van Berchem, MIFAO 44 - Matériaux pour un Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Part...

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Hebron

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Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae addendum: squeezes in the Max van Berchem collection (Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Northern Syria): squeezes 1–84...

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Painting of the Six Kings

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be seated in the hall. Other scholars, including Arabic epigraphist Max van Berchem and architectural historian K. A. C. Creswell, argued that the six...

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List of sources for the Crusades

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ville d'Acre au XIIIe siècle (1879). (Runc. Vol III, p. 502) Max van Berchem. Max van Berchem (1863–1921) was a Swiss epigraphist and historian whose work...

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Mahkamah Mosque

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qadis, hence its Arabic name. In the late 19th-century, Swiss scholar Max van Berchem found a Kufic inscription fixed over the mihrab ("pulpit") of the mosque...

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Deir Hajla

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village of Hajla" (French: le village de Hadjlā) to this madrasa; Max van Berchem identifies "the village of Hajla" with Deir Hajla. However, in 1283...

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Renata Holod

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Visual Culture (since 1999); the Scientific Committee of the Fondation Max Van Berchem (since 2001); the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Islamic...

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History of metallurgy in Mosul

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study include: Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Henri Lavoix, Gaston Migeon, Max Van Berchem, Mehmed Aga-Oglu, David Storm Rice. In the early years of Mosul Metalwork...

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Duck candlestick

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Louvre Museum in Paris Exposition des arts musulmans : catalogue descriptif / par Gaston Migeon, Max van Berchem, et M. Huart Islam portal The arts portal...

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Yibna Bridge

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Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land cites the completion date as 1273. Max van Berchem, who examined it in the late 19th century, found that the bridge contained...

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Tankiziyya

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stands. The entirety of the building "exudes harmony", notes historian Max van Berchem. Its entrance is set inside a tall portal, considered "one of the finest...

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