Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam
Edited by Michelina Di Cesare Edited by Markus Ritter
The aim of the Ernst Herzfeld Society is an adequate edition of all papers presented at the colloquia and other articles of academic value.
The 10th volume of the Beitrage zur Islamischen Kunst und Archaologie offers an overview of the extent and complexity of funerary culture in Islamic contexts as attested by visual and material evidence, and the variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary perspectives its study requires. The nine essays forming the core of the volume focus on human remains, burials, cemeteries, monumental structures and complexes, inscriptions, manuscripts, paintings, and photographs. They cover almost all the regions of the dar al-Islam, spanning from the 7th century up to the present, and involve field archaeology and physical anthropology, history of architecture, epigraphy, art history, gender studies, social history, and anthropology.
Michelina Di Cesare was born in Sulmona (AQ), Italy, on the 4th of October 1975. She earned a PhD in Asia Africa and the Mediterranean (Islamic Studies; Islamic Archaeology and Art History) at the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale in 2017, a PhD in Greek and Latin Philology at Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza in 2006, a post-lauream Diploma for Curators of Medieval Archives and Books from the Università degli Studi di Cassino in 2002. She qualifed as Associate Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art History in 2018 and as Full Professor in 2020.<br/>Since 2023 she is Associate Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art History in the Department of History Anthropology Religions Art History and Performing Arts at Sapienza Università di Roma; from 2019-2023 she was Associate Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art History the Department of Sciences of Antiquity at Sapienza Università di Roma, from 2016-2019 Assistant Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art History in the same Department; 2015-2016 Adjunct Professor of Religious History of Islam, Department of History Cultures and Religions , Sapienza Università di Roma; 2014-2020 Junior Research Fellow, Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati Sapienza; 2015, and 2012-2013 Visiting Fellow, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; 2013-2014 Research Associate in Islamic Archaeology and Art History, Department of Sciences of Antiquity, Sapienza Università di Roma; 2010-2011 Benedetto Croce National Prize Post-Doctoral Fellow, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, Naples; 2007-2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut, Florence.<br/><br/>Markus Ritter, Professor History of Islamic Art, Department of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria. Doctorate (2003) on nineteenth-century religious building in Iran, taught as lecturer and professor at universities in Bamberg, Frankfurt am Main, and Zurich. Works on art and architecture of the Medieval to Pre-modern periods in the Persian and Arabic speaking regions of Islamic Western Asia. His major publications include Moscheen und Madrasabauten in Iran 1785–1848 (2006), The Golden Qur’an (2015; with Nourane Ben Azzouna), The Indigenous Lens: Early Photography in the Near and Middle East (2017; with Staci G. Scheiwiller), articles on different media in Medieval Islamic art and its European reception, and several edited volumes.
- Edited by Michelina Di Cesare
- Edited by Markus Ritter
Other Titles in this Series
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 9. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 6, Encompassing the Sacred in Islamic Art
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 1: Bericht über die Tagungen in Bamberg vom 1. bis 2. Juli 2005 und in Bonn vom 7. bis 8. Juli 2006
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