An early pilot · A community project
QADIYA is an independent, noncommercial community project: an archive of Palestine’s history, built for the cause and open to everyone.
This is an early pilot. Its records were gathered with AI help from cited sources and are still being checked, so don’t rely on them yet, and tell us if something is wrong.
We’re looking for people and organisations to build it with us: historians, archivists, translators, designers, developers, and partners who can support the work.
Heritage · ARCHIVE RECORD
النقش على المعادن: الذهب والفضة والنحاس
Engraving names, Qur’anic verses, prayers, symbols and geometric patterns by hand into objects of gold, silver and copper, decorative, religious and everyday: wedding gifts, ritual objects, pieces thought to heal; an expression of cultural, religious and geographical identity. The craft is learnt in the family and in workshops and training centres. UNESCO inscribed it in 2023 on the joint nomination of ten Arab states, the State of Palestine among them.
See it on the map →UNESCO · section: Description
Evidence version:unesco-ich-metal-engraving:v1EVERY RECORD IS PART OF A LARGER STORY
HeritageEngraving on metals: gold, silver and copper is practised in PlacePalestine
Role: Among the ten states that nominated it; inscribed by UNESCO in 2023
Attributed to UNESCO.
UNESCO · supports · section: Submitting states: the State of Palestine among ten
Evidence version:unesco-ich-metal-engraving:v1References show the basis of this connection; their count is not a measure of independent corroboration.