Muhammad Nasir Ismail Abu Elkhier
Assistant Lecturer of Islamic Art and inscription
Islamic Archeology Department, University of Fayoum, Egypt
E-mail: mni11@fayoum.edu.eg
https://www.fayoum.edu.eg/English/Archaeology/Islamic/MrMohammed.aspx




Date of birth: September 9, 1996
Place of birth: Biltag- Qotour- Gharbiya, (Egypt).
Fax : +20– 84 – 6333178
Mobile phone: +201115698386
What’s up: +2001063080710
Office: Faculty of Archeology Building.
Mailing Address: Fayoum, Fayoum University, Faculty of Archeology, Department of Islamic Archeology, Postal Code 63514.



2022: University of Fayoum & North Caucasus Federal University, TA (Dec. 2020-July 2022): Bachelor of Master’s degree, Islamic Art and inscription, Department of Islamic archaeology, joint scientific supervision Department of History of North Caucasus Federal University with Honor grade recommendation of printing and participation. Dissertation: “Islamic Gravestones in the Cemetery of Derbend City, in Dagestan Region, Southern Russia during the twelfth century AH/ Eighteenth century AD: A Study of Form and Content.” Advisor: Prof. Dr. Atef Mansour, Dr. Walid Khalil.
2020: University of Fayoum & North Caucasus Federal University, RA (Dec. 2020): Candidated for M.A., Islamic Archeology.
2020: University of Fayoum, Department of Islamic archaeology, B.A. (sep. 2019): Bachelor of Pre-Master’s degree in Islamic Archeology.
2018: University of Fayoum, Department of Islamic archaeology, (Sep. 2014- July 2018): Bachelor of Islamic Archeology Certificate with initial honors degree (credit hours system).


2022: Assistant lecturer Department of Islamic archaeology, University of Fayoum.
2019-2022: Teaching assistant: from June 2019 till July 2022.



2022-2023: Academic curator of the educational museum at the Faculty of Archaeology.
2020-2021: Deputy Director of “Combating Violence and Harassment anti Women Unit” faculty of archaeology fayoum University.
2020-2021: Department of Islamic Archeology Institutional partner Coordinator in Academic Guidance Unit for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades.
2019-2020: student` scientific seminar coordinator Department of Islamic Archeology, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University.
2020: Institutional partner and member of Complaints and Suggestions Follow-up Committee Unit at Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University.
2020-2021: Quality Assurance Coordinator member, Department of Islamic Archeology, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University.
2019-2020: Membership in Quality Assurance and Development Unit - for accreditation of Faculty of Archeology by the Project Management Unit at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
2021: general coordinator of scientific and academic activities at Department of Islamic Archeology to obtain institutional and academic accreditation from the Project Management Unit of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.


Islamic Archeology and Architecture.
Islamic inscriptions and calligraphy.
Islamic civilization in Central Asia.
Architecture and Islamic Arts in Europe.
Islamic Arts in the Caucasus.
Islamic Civilization in Southern Russia and Eastern Europe.
Medieval History.
Dagestan arts.
Caucasian languages.


2016: Senior Short-Term Fellowship travel for excavation mission, Southern Russian Federation University (SFedU), with Institute of History and International Relations, Rostov, July and August 2016.
2016: Invited speaker, series of public lectures on Islamic monuments at Azov historical archaeological and paleontological reserve museum Russian federation, Azov, July and August 2016.


2021: Outstanding Instructor Award course, Faculty of Education, Fayoum University, spring 2021, in cooperation with the Faculty and Leadership Development Center (FLDC).
2019: Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, given to 5 faculty at Fayoum University, 2010 (the 11th Flag Day), in presence of Higher Education, Youth Ministers, and Governor of Fayoum.
2019: Honorable Certificate of educational symposium "N. 19-20" awarded to top ten faculty member leaders, Helwan, 2019.
2019: Nominated for the Student Choice Awards for Outstanding Faculty of Archaeology Members, credit-hours program system, IU Alumni, (Graduate Follow-up Unit).
2018: Outstanding Honorable Award, faculty of archeology of Islamic Studies, Fayoum University, Spring 2018, class honors (first installment) credit hours system: awarded to top ten graduate students.
2017: Honorable Certificate of excavation Achievement, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum university, fayoum 2017.
2016: Southern federal university Award, given to 10 faculty at fayoum University for participate in excavation mission carried out in (Rostov, Azov, and Tanais), July and August 2016.
2016: Honorable Certificate of excavation Achievement at Azov historical archaeological and paleontological reserve museum, Azov, 2016.




2022: Fundamental`s of Digital Transformation Certificate course, Fayoum university- project management unit of universities Supreme Council, Autumn 2022.
2022: Certificate of English language proficiency certificate (Academic IELTS) Achievement from the British Council in Agouza (Score Band 5).
2020: Certificate of English language (TOEFL) from Languages and Translation Center, Fayoum University.
2020: Faculty and Leadership Development Center, Fayoum University (FLDC), Awards for Outstanding promotion (Assistant lecture):
1. Organizing international scientific conferences.
2. Using modern technology in teaching.
3. Question banks and specifications for a good test (Online).
4. Description of courses.
5. Curriculum maps and learning outcomes (Online).
6. Effective communication skills.
2017: Outstanding Award of International Computer Driving License (ICDL) certified by Egyptian and UAE Ministries of Communications (ICDL ARABI) and UNESCO.
2015: Honorable Award Quality, Unit and the Development of Students Assessment Systems project at Faculty of Archeology (DSASP).


2020: Co-organizer of (5th Egyptian Universities Girls’ Week) at Fayoum University, under the auspices of Youth, Sports, Higher Education Ministries.
2019: Faculty host and organizer on "19th and 20th educational delegation youth," in coordination with Ministry of Higher Education and the Institute for Leadership Development in Helwan, july 22-26 and August 28-3, 2019.
2019: Member, the Leaders Preparation Camp, Fayoum University "the banner of Fayoum Nationality", Fayoum, September 13-17, 2019.
2018: Convener, guest lecture, and lead discussant "The Role of Islamic Civilization in the Development of Scientific Culture" center of the Ghouria Antiquities, Cairo, October 7-10, 2018.


2022: guest lecture, and lead discussant in a lecture entitled "The role of cultural centers in the eastern Caucasus in transferring the impact of Islamic civilization to Europe", Sharjah Antiquities Authority Center, United Arab Emirates, August 8, 2022.
2017-2018: Vice Chairman of the Scientific Committee, “Tawasul” family, Faculty of Archeology - Fayoum University.
2017: Member, Russian excavations training mission group, Kaman Fares region, Fayoum.
2015:2017: students’ union elections Member, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University for two consecutive, fayoum.
Membership, Faculty Members Club at Fayoum University.


2023: Convener, guest lecture at the International Conference of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in cooperation with society and local development problems laboratory in Algeria, with a lecture entitled "archaeological writing and Arabic calligraphy "form and content" in partnership with Hassiba Ben Bouali University of Chlef – Algeria, May 17-18, 2023. (Online).
2023: guest lecture, and lead discussant at the international scientific conference "Archeology and culture of the Islamic world in the expanses of Eurasia" held on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the entry of Islam into Russia and the Caucasus, in cooperation with FSAEI HE "Southern federal university, Institute of History and International Relations, SBIC RR "Azov Historical, Archaeological and Paleontological Museum-Reserve, SBIC "National Museum of Republic of Tatarstan, FSBSI FSC "Kabardino-Balkarian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, May 10-12, 2023. (Online).
2022: guest lecture at 3rd International Conference of Faculty of Archaeology Fayoum University entitled "technology and digitization in the preservation, documentation and maintenance of Antiquities" was organized in partnership with the University of Marburg – Germany, June 23-25, 2022.
2022: Convener, guest lecture, and lead discussant, "Humanities And Social Sciences: Religious Organizations, Strategy and Practice in the South of Russia in the Context of Overcoming Radicalism: Gender Aspect" with a paper entitled "Tombstones and Dagestan feminist social history dating Derbent during the 12th century," Dagestan State University, Makhachkala, June 24-25, 2022. (Online).
2021: Organizer and presenter for "The International Anthropological Conference "the concept of the family and social organization of nomads", with a paper "one of the models of tombstones dated to the 14th/20th century in the cemetery of Darband city, Dagestan province, "Institute of history and international relations, Rostov, November 25-26, 2021.
2021: Convener, guest lecture and presenter for "the 16th All-Russian International Conference Entitled "Migration and Contact Areas In Ancient Eurasia and The Middle Ages", with a paper "Archaeological Islamic Gravestones and Combination Tombs in the Cemetery Of Derbend City, In Dāḡestān Region, Southern Russia," Institute of history and international relations, Azov, October 22-23, 2021.
2020: Member, General Conference of the Union of Arab Archaeologists (23) Conference committee, Sheikh Zayed City, September 23-24, 2020.
2019: Convener, guest lecture, and lead discussant, Egyptian-Russian Student Conference, with a paper entitled "The results of the archaeological excavations of the Egyptian-Russian mission," Azov, 2019.


2023: Research entitled “The religious and symbolic connotations of recording Bab terminology on a Shiite tombstone from Derband". Published in Proceedings of the International Conference of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in cooperation with the laboratory of society and local development problems, entitled "archaeological writing and Arabic calligraphy "form and content", Algeria on May 17−18, 2023.
2023: Research entitled “Some new Epigraphical Epitaphs on Dagestan tombstones". Published in the Proceedings of the XVIII international conference "Archeology and Culture of the Islamic World in the expanses of Eurasia"", dedicated to the 1300th anniversary of the Islamization of the North Caucasus, Rostov-on-Don and Azov on May 10−12, 2023.
2023: Research entitled “The vitality of disquisition epigraphic inscriptions on Dagestan tombstones of Derbend during the 12th/18th century”. Published in Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled “Visual Proportion Leverage on the Assembly of Dagestan Tombstone Contents and Shapes”. Published in the Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled “Aspects of Islamic cultural influences and their transition to Russia: a comparative study with Central and Western Europe”. Published in the Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled “The influence of the Muslim faith on design of architectural constructions in Derbend Cemetery tombstones in Dagestan region during the 13th century AH”. Published in the Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled “The city of derbend in the depictions of travelers and Orientalists during the Middle Ages". Published in the Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled “An overview of women's history of Derbend city from the perspective of tombstones during the Ifsharid era". Published in the Journal of the Juma Al Majid Center in the United Arab Emirates. (Under Publishing).
2023: Research entitled” The influence of the Islamic faith on diversity of the inscriptions content of Dagestan epigraphic tombstones in Darband cemetery during the XIII century”. Published in Journal of archaeological inscriptions-published by the Center for inscriptions and historical and calligraphic studies at the Faculty of Archaeology – Fayoum University, Issue number 1, volume 1.
2023: Research entitled” A View of the Manifestations of Muslim Civilization in Eastern Europe and Its Transition to the Russian Empire”. Published in mursali Abdullah ~ Tipaza Center~ Institute of social sciences, and humanities, Laboratory of historical and archaeological studies - tafza magazine – Algeria; Volume 2, Issue 1, April 30, 2022.
2023: Research entitled” The written inscriptions on Islamic tombstones in Derbend and their role in clarifying deceased's hair colors during the (12th / 18th century)”. Published in mursali Abdullah ~ Tipaza Center~ Institute of social sciences, and humanities, Laboratory of historical and archaeological studies - tafza magazine – Algeria; Volume 3, Issue 1, April 30, 2022.
2022: Research entitled” The deceased's hair colors on Dagestan tombstones of Derbend during the 12th/18th century.” Published in the Proceedings of the XVII international congress of undergraduates and graduate students "problems of Archeology of Eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean", dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the outstanding archaeologist, SFU professor Vladimir Yakovlevich kyashko, Rostov-on-Don, September 30, 2022.
2022: Research entitled "The exodus of Muslims from the Russian Empire outside the Caucasus following the Turk-Russo war of 1877.” Published in mursali Abdullah ~ Tipaza Center~ Institute of social sciences, and humanities, Laboratory of historical and archaeological studies - tafza magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, April 30, 2022.
2022: Research entitled” Tombstones and Dagestan feminist social history dating Derbent during the 12th century”. Published in the Proceedings of the VIII International Conference of Humanities and Social Sciences entitled: "religious organizations and strategic practices in the south of Russia in the context of overcoming extremism: the female side" held at the Dagestan State University of national economy, Makhachkala, June 24-25, 2022.
2021: Research entitled” Examples of some symbolic and linear connotations on the tombstones of the 14th-century AD in Derbent.” Published in the Journal of the Institute of history and international relations of the South Russian Federation University, Journal of the Institute of history and international relations of the Union University of southern Russia, No. 16.
2021: Research entitled” Archaeological Islamic Gravestones and Combination Tombs in the Cemetery of Derbend City, in In Dagestan Region, Southern Russia. ” Published in the work of the 16th international conference of the South Russian Federation University, Journal of historical and archaeological research of the city of Azov and the Don region, Issue 16.


2020: An episode on the Egyptian TV Nile Cultural, with the on Islamic antiquities in Gharbia Governorate.
2016: An episode on Russian TV on ДОН channel 24 and РОССИЯ channe l about the visit of an Egyptian student's delegation participated in excavation works, Azov.


Country Project Name N0.
 Russia
 Republic of Dagestan
 Egypt  Documentation and recording of Arabic scripts and inscriptions on the fixed and movable Islamic monuments in the south of Russia and the Caucasus.  1



2023: assistant editor of the Journal of historical inscriptions and Calligraphy Studies Faculty of Archaeology-Fayoum University.
2022: academic curator at the educational museum of the Faculty of Archaeology – Fayoum University.
2020: Institutional partner and member of Complaints and Suggestions Follow-up Committee Unit at Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University.
2019: member of the administrative structure of the seminars Committee, Assistant Coordinator of the Department of Islamic Archeology.
2015: supervision of the Higher Committee participating in the elections of the student union at the Faculty of Archaeology.





Publication date Book Name N0.
 In the process of publication.  Funerary inscriptions on Islamic tombstones in the city of Bab al-Abwab in Dagestan region during the twelfth AH/eighteenth century AD.  1
 In the process of publication.  Contributions of Islamic civilization to the Russian Empire in the Middle Ages” comparative study with contemporary Islamic Civilization systems.  2






 The donor  Date of acquisition  Name of the award N0.
 Fayoum University  --------  International scientific publishing award  1
 Fayoum University  --------  The excellence in Scientific Advancement Award  2
 Fayoum University  December 2018  The eleventh Science Day award 
 Institute of history and international relations South Russian Federal University  August 2016  Award for excellence in archaeological excavation 