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Berlekamp, Persis. “Symmetry, Sympathy, and Sensation: Talismanic Efficacy and Slippery Iconographies in Early 13th C Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia,” Representations 133 (2016): 59-109.
Excavations at Mezad Zohar, a heavily eroded medieval fort west of the Dead Sea, have revealed that it was constructed in the later decades of the 12th century and occupied until the 14th century CE. During the Mamluk period, the fort was... more
Although the commemoration of the dead is a universal and a long-standing tradition, early Islam is widely known to have resisted it. After a relatively long period of observing prevention, such a persistent practice found its way to... more
Syria has an important place in the study of Turkish-Anatolian art as it was a center that imported technique  and aesthetics. The article deals with the topic under two headings: Architectural Characteristics
Excavations at Mezad Zohar, a heavily eroded medieval fort west of the Dead Sea, have revealed that it was constructed in the later decades of the 12th century and occupied until the14th century CE. During the Mamluk period, the fort 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
Al-Kerak: the Ayyubid palace and the castle. A topographical, architectural, cultural relationship
Talismans drawing on the combined iconographies of lions and dragons proliferated on the walls and doors of cities and civic institutions in early thirteenth-century Iraq, Syria, and Anatolia. This article examines them in light of three... more