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The Mamluk inscription on the Facade of the Main Entrance to the St. James Monastery of Jerusalem is one of the most significant ones given by the Sultan the nicknamed Chaqmaq in 1450 C.E. The inscription is one of the rare inscriptions... more
Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010), 72-97.
For most of the fourteenth century much of the Muslim world was controlled by four dynasties, the Marinids in the west (1217–1465), the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria (1250–1517), the Ilkhanids in Iran (1256–1335), and the Tughluqs in India... more
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In the second quarter of the fifteenth century, a new phenomenon appears nearly in Ottoman architecture: tiles with blue-and-white decoration, associated with tile-makers from Tabriz. These tiles appear most prominently the Muradiye in... more
Introduction of the edited book "Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History"
Antonio Lasciac was one of the most active of European architects working in Egypt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His output was as eclectic as it was prolific, comprising buildings and decoration in neo‑Renaissance,... more
Published in "Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time," edited by Nadja Aksamija, Clark Maines, & Phillip Wagoner, 61-88 (Leiden: Brepols, 2018).
Published in Art, Trade and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond From the Fatimids to the Mughals - Studies Presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif Edited by Alison Ohta, Michael Rogers and Rosalind Wade Haddon Series Edited by... more
Sultan al-Mansūr Qalawūn was a prolific builder who ordered the construction or restoration of at least two dozen buildings throughout the Mamluk realm. However, most of these buildings are no longer extant, which is why his funerary... more
IV. FORUM KUNST DES MITTELALTERS BERLIN UND BRANDENBURG 360° – VERORTUNG, ENTGRENZUNG, GLOBALISIERUNG 20.–23. SEPTEMBER 2017 veranstaltet vom Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V. mit der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,... more
The Mamluk sultans were new to embrace Islam, and so their main reason for strengthening their rule over the Islamic region was to obtain legitimacy, through taking over the status as the defenders of Islam and its sacred places. To... more
One of the most interesting architectural traditions known form Egypt is the reuse of elements from buildings erected during earlier periods and their incorporation as adornment, apotropaia, and fill in newer structures. Such activity was... more
Ph.D. Thesis. Il lavoro si propone di documentare sotto il profilo archeologico e architettonico alcuni aspetti riferibili alle dinamiche insediative sviluppate dalle dinastie ayyubide e mamelucca in Transgiordania tra XIII e XIV secolo,... more
Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic History at MIT, has long established himself as a pioneering scholar of Islamic architecture and history, in particular of the Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate (1260–1517). The work under review... more
It has been prevalently argued in modern scholarship that Mamluk miʽmār had a low status working for endowed properties as a repairman. However, a comparative approach to endowment deeds and chronical accounts reveals that in... more
Review of Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History, ed. Yuval Ben-Bassat (Brill, 2017)
Islamic architecture represents a successful example in extracting the mathematical proportions and the fractal geometry of the natural organisms. The Mameluke architecture is considered a transitional stage to a more self-similar... more
Review of "Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History: Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni", edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
The Mamluk dynasty (1250–1517) succeeded the Ayyubids in Egypt and Syria. From 1260, and for 260 years, construction projects and different types of buildings were sponsored by sultans, emirs, and members of the elite in Cairo, Damascus... more
The blurred line between sacred and profane spaces in Islamic architecture is exemplified by building commissioned for relics of the Prophet Muhammad. Produced within specific contexts – geographical, cultural and temporal – this genre... more
Review of the edited volume: "Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History"
Review of Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History (Leiden: Brill, 2017), published in Der Islam