I have been interested in the correlation between the natural environment and human activities, wondering, on one hand, how human beings have historically utilized the natural environment and established systems to manage it and an administrative structure in which those systems are installed. On the other hand, I am interested in how the natural environment has been changed and how human beings have responded to the change. To look at these questions, I have studied the land and irrigation systems along the Nile river in the medieval period.
Nile Irrigation and the Land System in Medieval Egypt
Wakako Kumakura
University of Tokyo Press Feb 2019 ISBN:978-4-13-026160-9
Rekishigakuto, Deau
KUMAKURA Wakako (Part:Contributor)
Aoki Shoten May 2015 ISBN:4250215008
The Handbook of Comparative Culture
KUMAKURA Wakako (Part:Contributor)
Akashi Shoten Feb 2015 ISBN:9784750341453
TAKAMATSU Yoichi (ed.), WATABE Ryoko, ABE Naofumi and KUMAKURA Wakako (trans.), Japanese Translation and Commentary of Risala-yi Falakiya dar ‘Ilm-i Siyaqat
KUMAKURA Wakako (Part:Joint Translation)
Documentation Center for Islamic Area Studies, The Toyo Bunko Mar 2013
2019 MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Annual Meeting 17 Nov 2019
Abstract: Professor Ulrich Haarmann discussed the decline of the awlad al-nas in the Circassian period through a comparative analysis of iqta‘ holdings in the Bahri period and the Circassian period in which he clearly showed that iqta‘s held by th...
Current Situation of History and Geographical Information: Studies, Tools, and Problems
Wakako Kumakura
Field Net Workshop, ILCAA 21 Mar 2019
The Shift from Medieval to Modern in the Natural Environment of Egypt: A Case Study of Lake Idku and Its Surroundings[Invited]
Wakako Kumakura
Workshop “The Mediterranean as a Plaza” 23 Mar 2018 University of Urbino Carlo Bo and the Mediterannean Studies Group (Tokyo)
THE MEDITERRANEAN AS A PLAZA
Giovedì 22 e venerdì 23 marzo 2018, sarà ospitato dall’Università di Urbino Carlo Bo con il patrocinio del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, della Fondazione Italia-Giappone e della Rete Italiana Dialogo Euro-Mediterraneo...
Various Types of Land Use in Medieval Egypt Seen from Irrigation[Invited]
Wakako Kumakura
第3回東日本国際大学イスラーム研究会 9 Feb 2018
From Beneficiaries to Landowners: Patterns of Landholding and Women's Investment
KUMAKURA Wakako
The 4th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies 12 May 2017
Finding the Banks: Visualizing the Medieval Irrigation System in the Nile Delta
Wakako KUMAKURA
VHC 1st International Conference ”Sustaining Heritage in the Digital Age: Towards Virtual Environments for Middle East's Cultural Heritage” 20 Feb 2017
Irrigation and Environment of the Nile Delta in the sixteenth century: An Attempt to Use GIS for the Historical Study of Medieval Egypt
KUMAKURA Wakako
Asian Networks for GIS-based Historical Studies 9 Dec 2013
Key Words: Sixteenth-century Egypt, Nile Delta, Irrigation, Environment, Rural Society
This presentation analyzes the structure of the irrigation system in the sixteenth-century Nile Delta. In the period in which agricultural lands were irrigated...
Irrigation, Tax and Documentation in the sixteenth Fayyoum: Ottoman Policy of Local governance and Its Development at the Beginning of Their Rule in Egypt.
KUMAKURA Wakako
The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 27 Oct 2013
Irrigation and Rural Society in 16 and 17th-century Nile Delta[Invited]
KUMAKURA Wakako
7 Jul 2013
The Nile Irrigation in Medieval Egypt: Where Are Sultan's Irrigation Banks?[Invited]
KUMAKURA Wakako
28 Feb 2013
Sultan's Jisr and Rural Society of Gharbiya district in 16th-century Egypt[Invited]
KUMAKURA Wakako
21 Sep 2012
“An Analysis of Iqṭā‘ Holdings during the Late Mamlūk Period in Egypt Based on the Ottoman Military Register Daftar Jayshī”
KUMAKURA Wakako
IAS Third International Conference 2010: New Horizons in Islamic Area Studies, Continuity, Contestations and the Future Dec 2010
The Administration of Egyptian Land Survey Records in the Later Mamluk Period: Through the Study of Compiling and Copying al-Tuḥfa al-Sanīya bi-Asmā’ al-Bilād al-Miṣrīya
Wakako KUMAKURA
26th Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Middle East Studies May 2010
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