Overview
- Studies began in the Archaeology Department in 1977. The Department of Archaeology was divided into two branches within the Faculty of Arts at Assiut University, followed by the South Valley University and the Sohag University.
- In 1990, the Department of Egyptian Antiquities and the Department of Islamic Antiquities were separated and became two independent departments. The Restoration Department was added to the Department of Antiquities at Faculty of Arts in 2000.
- Faculty of Archaeology at Sohag University was established by Prime Ministerial Decree No. 3512 of 2015, and studies began in 2016/2017
Mission and vision
Vision
The Islamic Archaeology Program at Faculty of Archaeology, Sohag University, seeks to achieve academic and research excellence within the framework of comprehensive quality standards in the fields of education, scientific research, community service, and environmental development.
Mission
The Islamic Archaeology Program at Faculty of Archaeology, Sohag University, aims to prepare academically and practically qualified graduates who possess the scientific and professional skills required by the labor market. It also seeks to achieve the goals of continuing education and develop scientific research skills at the undergraduate and graduate levels
It aims to achieve an effective partnership in the field of community service, environmental development, field archaeology, and museum science.
Strategic Objectives
1. Develop curricula to keep pace with global developments in the education and scientific research in the field of Islamic archaeology.
2. Introduce new curricula that encompass all modern trends in the study of Islamic archaeology and meet the needs of the labor market in Egypt and the Arab region
3. Linking the program’s scientific research to societal issues and preserving tangible heritage, particularly Islamic antiquities.
4. Adhering to local and international academic standards for comprehensive quality in the design of courses and curricula.
. 5. Continuously assessing teaching and learning outcomes to achieve educational and research objectives and serve the community and labor market, while ensuring their advancement
6. starting the study in all branches of Islamic archaeology to the people of Sohag Governorate in particular, Upper Egypt, and Egypt in general.
Academic programs
Bachelor
- Through the Islamic Archaeology Program, a Bachelor’s degree in Islamic Archaeology is awarded after completing four full years of study.
- The Islamic Archaeology Program accepts students who have obtained a high school diploma in the science and literature streams
- A bachelor’s degree is awarded after successfully completing four full academic years, divided into eight semesters.
- Students choose the Islamic Archaeology program upon enrolment in their first year
second year
fourth year
Staff Members
Emeritus professors
- Professor Mohamed Abd el-Sattar Osman “Islamic architecture”.
- Professor Hamza Abd el-Aziz Badr “Islamic architecture”
professors
- Professor Ashraf Sayed Al Bakhshongy “Christian arts and architecture”
- Professor Hassan Mohamed Nour “Islamic architecture”
- Professor Abd el-Nasser Mohamed Yassin “Islamic architecture”
- Professor Osama Ahmed Mokhtar Hassan “Islamic coins”
Emeritus assistant professors
- Assistant professor Sammy Mohamed Mokhtar ” Islamic architecture”
Assistant professors
- assistant professor Faheem Fathy Ibrahim ” Islamic architecture”
- assistant professor Wafaa Essayed Ahmed Sharaf ” Islamic architecture”
- Assistant professor Alaa eldeen Abd Alal abd el-Hameed ” Islamic writings”
- Assistant professor Atef Ali Abd elhameed “Islamic photography”
lecturers
- Dr Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed “Islamic coins”.
- Dr Ammer Hassan Ahmed Aglan “Islamic architecture”.
Assistant lecturers
- Dr Nermeen Awad Diab “Islamic arts”
- Ahmed Hammdy Mohamed “Christian arts and architecture”
- Wafaa Thabit Essayed ” Islamic arts”
- Mahmoud Essayed Mohamed ” Islamic architecture”
Demonstrators
- Ahmed Mohamed Alshafy Ahmed “Islamic architecture”.
- Ahmed Mohamed Alsawy “Christian arts and architecture”.
- Abd Allah Mohamed Abd Allah ” archeological writings”.
Scientific trips
The department holds practical trainings in the different Egyptian archeology sites.it also field visits to the archeological sites in Sohag
Departments ‘s library
- The library of professor Abd el-Rahman Fahmy
- It is a library which subordinate to Islamic department granted from professor Abd el-Rahman Fahmy Mohamed ,a professor of coins and Islamic archeology, as the library contains many references, periodical and scientific theses which serve the researchers
The library contents:
| contents | books |
| Arabic books | 3394 |
| Foreign books | 640 |
| total | 4034 |
| Arabic theses | 146 |
| PHDs | 39 |
| total | 185 |
| Arabic periodicals | 104 |
| Foreign periodicals | 46 |
| total | 150 |