British Aesthetic Involvement in Islamic Art and Architecture in Jerusalem 1918-1926: The Pro-Jerusalem Society of Charles Robert Ashbee and Sir Ronald Storrs

英国在巴勒斯坦的统治（1917年至1948年）及其对阿拉伯人和犹太人的戏剧性影响，很少从艺术史的角度进行研究。拟议的研究项目旨在关注英国军事统治和民政管理早期阶段冲突的艺术史证据。它审查了与耶路撒冷总督罗纳德·斯托斯爵士合作的英国艺术家查尔斯·罗伯特·阿什比的活动。他们一起创立了亲耶路撒冷协会，这个协会是这项研究的中心。亲耶路撒冷社会背景下的活动有利于耶路撒冷的阿拉伯文化，同时试图限制犹太复国主义文化的发展。因此，这个项目的目的是在早期巴勒斯坦-阿拉伯民族运动期间，将文物置于西方立场发展的背景下。该项目与dfg研究小组“艺术领域的跨文化谈判”密切相关。历史背景与当前星座的比较视角”。根据研究小组的目的，本案例研究着眼于亲耶路撒冷社会的现象，作为中东跨文化纠缠的一个例子。到目前为止，这个地区的跨文化性还没有在柏林自由博物馆Universität艺术史系进行过研究。这与新任命的伊斯兰艺术史教授职位不谋而合，意在与这个新部门建立联系。这个项目导致出版了一本附有详细插图附录的专著。

British rule in Palestine 1917-1948 and the dramatic consequences for its Arab and Jewish populations have rarely been investigated from an art historical perspective. The proposed research project is aimed at focusing on art historical evidence of the conflict during the early phase of British military rule and civil administration. It examines the activities of the British artist Charles Robert Ashbee, who cooperated with the Governor of Jerusalem, Sir Ronald Storrs. Together they founded the Pro-Jerusalem Society, an association, which is at the center of this study. The activities in the context of Pro-Jerusalem Society were favourable to Arab culture in Jerusalem and at the same time tried to limit the development of Zionist culture. It is therefore the aim of this project to contextualize artifacts within the development of western positions during the early Palestinian-Arab national movement. This project is closely connected to the DFG-research group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Current Constellations". In accordance with the aims of the research group this case study looks at the phenomena of the Pro-Jerusalem Society as an example of transcultural entanglement in the Middle East. Transculturality in this region has so far not been studied at the Department of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin. It coincides with the newly appointed professorship of Islamic art history and is meant to create a link both to this new department. The project leads to the publication of a monograph with an elaborate appendix of illustrations.