Ongoing research exploring the cultural, artistic, and intellectual history of the Islamic world.
Fatimid Tiraz textiles demonstrate an intricate history of art, material culture, and social history of the tenth to twelfth centuries. This project aims to create a platform that closely examines the techniques, designs, inscriptions, production, and cultural history related to these textiles.
Umayyad capitals from the palatial city Madinat al-Zahra are dispersed across the museums and private collections worldwide. This projects aims to study the inscribed capitals collectively, offering new insights into the history of Umayyad palatial epigraphy.
Italian Orientalist scholars from the 18th to 20th centuries have recorded a fair amount of Islamic material cultural inscriptions from the era of medieval Islamic rule over Sicily. This project collectively studies their records of inscribed objects, architecture, and art from the Aghlabid, Fatimid, and Kalbid eras spanning the 9th to 11th centuries.
