Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George’s The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning, and significance.
Stephennie Mulder
Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor of Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin. She has conducted research and fieldwork in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and elsewhere in the region, and worked for over ten years as an archaeological ceramicist at Balis, a medieval Islamic city in Syria.
Posted inArt
The Rise and Fall of the Viking “Allah” Textile
There is something very troubling about what the Viking “Allah” story reveals about the relationship between news media and experts.