Publications and Participations to Conferences
Monographies
In the shadow of the church: the building of mosques in early medieval Syria, Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, 8, Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Edited volumes
Section 8: Islamic Archaeology. Proceedings of the International Concress on Archaeology in the Ancient Near East, 25–29 April, 2016, Vienna, Austria Austrian Academy of Sciences, M. Ritter and M. Guidetti (eds.), Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2017.
«A mari usque ad mare» Cultura visuale e materiale dall'Adriatico all'India. Scritti in memoria di Gianclaudio Macchiarella, M. Guidetti and S. Mondini (eds.), Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2016.
Siria. Dalle antiche città-stato alla primavera interrotta di Damasco, M. Guidetti (ed.), Milan: Jaca Book, 2006.
Articles
with Nadia Ali, “Umayyad palace iconography: some practical aspects of creation”, in A. George and A. Marsham (eds.), Power, patronage and memory in early Islam: perspectives from Umayyad history, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 175-251.
"Inclusion and seclusion in late antique and early medieval settlement strategies in Syria and Palestine", in K. Dimtriev and I. Toral-Niehoff (eds.), Religious culture in late antique Arabia. Selected studies on the late antique religious mind, Piscataway (NJ): Gorgias Press, 2017, pp. 219-245.
“Sacred Spaces in Early Islam”, in G. Necipoglu and B. Flood (eds.), A companion to Islamic art and architecture, Blackwell Companions to Art History, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, vol. 1, pp. 130-150.
“The ‘Islamicness’ of some decorative patterns in the Church of Tigran Honents in Ani”, in P. Blessing and R. Gashgarian (eds.), Architecture and landscape in medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500, Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp.155-181.
“Locating sacredness in early Islam”, in A. Bergmeier and K. Palmberger and J. Sanzo (eds.), Erzeugung und Zerstörung von Sakralität zwischen Antike und Mittelalter, Distant World Journal, Special Issue (2016): 81-96.
“The long tradition of the cycle of Qusayr ‘Amrah”, in M. Guidetti and S. Mondini (eds.), «A mari usque ad mare» Cultura visuale e materiale dall'Adriatico all'India. Scritti in memoria di Gianclaudio Macchiarella, Venice: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2016, pp. 185-200.
with Silvia Perini, “Civil war and cultural heritage in Syria, 2011-2015”, Syrian Studies Association Bulletin 20.1 (2015): 1-42.
“Dal Cristianesimo all’Islam. Luoghi di culto e modificazioni urbanistiche nell’area antiochena”, in L. Vaccaro (ed.), Dal Mediterraneo al Mar della Cina L’irradiazione della tradizione cristiana di Antiochia nel continente asiatico e nel suo universo religioso, Rome: Libreria editrice vaticana, 2015, pp. 195-215.
“The Christian context of the early Islamic sacred places in Syria and Palestine”, in M. Gharipour (ed.), Sacred precincts: non-Muslim sites in Islamic societies, Leiden: Brill, 2014, pp. 11-27.
“The contiguity between churches and mosques in the early Islamic Bilad al-Sham,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 76/2 (2013): 229-258.
“Trasmissione: il mosaico nell’arte degli umayyadi di Siria,” in E. Concina (ed.), Il Mosaico. Un linguaggio figurativo mediterraneo, Venice: Marcianum press, 2011, pp. 137-159.
“Mondo islamico medievale: persistenze, derivazioni, trasmissioni tecniche,” in E. Concina (ed.), Il mosaico. Un linguaggio figurativo mediterraneo, Venice: Marcianum press, 2011, pp. 197-216.
“I cantieri altomedievali nel Mediterraneo orientale tra cultura locale e transnazionale”, in A.C. Quintavalle (ed.), Medioevo: le officine, Milan: Electa, 2010, pp. 391-398.
“L’‘Editto di Yazid II’: Immagini e Identità Religiosa nel Bilad al-Sham dell’VIII Secolo”, in V. Pace (ed.), L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto, Cividale del Friuli: Comune di Cividale del Friuli, 2010, pp. 69-79.
“Sacred Topography in Medieval Syria and its Roots between Umayyads and Late Antiquity”, in P. Cobb and A. Borrut (eds.), Umayyad Legacies, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. 339-63.
“The Byzantine heritage in Dar al-Islam: churches and mosques in al-Ruha between the VI and the XII century”, Muqarnas 26 (2009): 1-36.
“Il Kitab wasf al-firdaws di ‘Abd al-Malik b. Habib e i mosaici d’epoca umayyade della Grande Moschea di Damasco”, Phoenix 1 (2008): 211-35.
“Bisanzio dopo Bisanzio: le chiese bizantine nel medioevo arabo-musulmano”, Porphyra 10 (2007): 28-51.
with G. Macchiarella, “Problemi di ermeneutica nell’iconografia umayyade: Qusayr ‘Amra e Khirbat al-Mafgar”, in A. Calzona, R. Campari and M. Mussini (eds.), Immagine e ideologia. Scritti in onore del prof. Quintavalle, Milan: Electa, 2007, pp. 53-64.
“L’antico in due edifici siriani medievali. La formazione dell’arte musulmana e il suo rapporto con l’antico: la Siria del XII secolo”, in C.A. Quintavalle (ed.), Medioevo mediterraneo: l’Occidente, Bisanzio e l’Islam, Milan: Electa, 2007, pp. 381-389.
“L’Antichità nella formazione dell’arte medioevale siriana”, in M. Guidetti (ed.), Siria. Dalle antiche città-stato alla primavera interrotta di Damasco, Milan: Jaca Book, 2006, pp. 65-78.
Reviews
"Michael McCormick, Charlemagne's Survey of the Holy Land. Wealth, Personnel, and Buildings of a Mediterranean Church between Antiquity and the Middle Ages", (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011). In Francia-Recensio 2013/1.
"Madre Agnès-Mariam de la Croix, Icone arabe", (Milan: Jaca Book, 2009). Oasis (May 2010).
"Glenn Warren Bowersock, Mosaics as history. The Near East from late antiquity to Islam", (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006). Phoenix 2 (2009): 287-291.
"Garth Fowden, Qusayr ‘Amra. Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria", (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2004). Phoenix 1 (2008): 325-30.
"Cipro oggi", (Quaderni del Merifor, Il Ponte, Bologna, 2005). L’indice dei libri (April 2006).
Translations
Islam, popolo e stato. Idee e movimenti politici in Medio Oriente (Milan: Jaca Book, 2010), translation from English of Islam, people, and the State. Political Ideas and Movements in the Middle East by Sami Zubaida (I.B. Tauris).
“La Siria nel periodo moderno”, translation from Arabic of the article “Suriya fi al-‘asr al-hadith” by Khairie Qasmie (published in Siria. Dalle antiche città-stato alla primavera interrotta di Damasco, Milan: Jaca Book, 2006).
La donna nel mondo arabo (Milan: Jaca Book, 2003), translation from French (with Dr. Paniconi) of La femme dans le monde arabe by Ghita al-Khayat (Ed. Aïni Bennaï).
“Murales”, translation from Arabic of the poem Gidariyya by Mahmoud Darwish, published in the journal Inoltre, IV, 5 (2002).
Articles in newspapers:
"Il minareto di Mosul come quello di Aleppo", Il Giornale dell´Arte, edizione cartacea, 377 (Luglio-Agosto 2017), p. 4.
"La nostra ignoranza dell’arte islamica è ottocentesca", Il Giornale dell´Arte, edizione cartacea, 377 (Luglio-Agosto 2017), p. 11.
In press:
“Marble columns, churches and mosques”, in D. Gamboni and G. Wolf (eds.), The aesthetics of marble, Hirmer – Chicago University Press, 2017.
“Mapping the Ottoman flags in the Marches region”, in M. Bernardini (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th ICTA congress, Naples, 2017.
“Early Islam and Byzantine Churches”, in C. Robinson and H. Uddin Khan (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“The Great Mosque of Damascus”, in C. Robinson and H. Uddin Khan (eds.), The Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
“The Muslim place of worship in Bethlehem during the early medieval period,” in L. Korn and M. Müller-Wiener (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Kolloquium der Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2018.
“The Ottoman flag of Urbino”, Proceedings of the 12th Kolloquium der Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft, 2018.
Holy places in Islam, A. Goerke and M. Guidetti (eds.), Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Exhibitions
1) (with Markus Ritter, Safa Mahmoudian and Maximilian Hartmuth), "Auf dem Weg zur islamischen Kunst Friedrich Sarre in Westasien. Historische Fotografien aus dem Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin." Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Aula, Universität Wien. 7 June – 6 July 2017.
Participation to conferences:
Organized conferences
Organizer (with Markus Ritter, Maximilian Hartmuth, Safa Mahmoudian), "Reassessing Nineteenth-Century Art in Islamic Countries", Thirteenth Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society, University of Vienna, Department of Art History, July 6–9, 2017.
Organizer (with Markus Ritter): “Session 8: Islamic archaeology”, 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 25-29 April 2016.
Organizer (with Andreas Goerke): “Constructing and contesting holy places in medieval Islam and beyond”, third conference of the research network “Holy Places in Islam”, University of Edinburgh, 15-17 June 2015.
Organizer (with Andreas Goerke): “Holy places in medieval Islam: functions, typologies and narratives”, second conference of the research network “Holy Places in Islam”, University of Edinburgh, 1-4 September 2014.
Organizer (with Andreas Goerke): “Early Islam and the search for a model”, first conference of the research network “Holy Places in Islam”, University of Edinburgh, 5-7 December 2013.
Organizer (with Ashley Jones and Emanuele Lugli): “Art, Space, and Mobility Workshop”, Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 8-10 September 2011.
Partecipation to conference with papers
Invited papers
“La questione delle immagini nella pratica artistica del primo periodo islamico”, 9 February 2017, La questione dell’immagine nell’arte e nella cultura islamica, Museo di Arte Orientale, Turin.
“«You have built churches»: Medina versus Damascus in the Umayyad period”, 26 November 2016, Workshop “The genius loci in Islamic art”; University of Vienna, 25-26 November 2016.
“The role of late antique churches in the eastern Mediterranean area during the early medieval period”, 15 April 2016, 1st International Symposium Mediterranean Continuities: Material and spiritual paths; Kavala, MOHA Research Center, 15-16 April 2016.
“In the shadow of the church: the location of mosques in early medieval Syria”, 21 October 2015, “Erzeugung& Zerstörung von Sakralität”; Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, München, 20-21 October 2015.
“The location of the sacred in early medieval Syria”, 3 July 2015, “Encompassing the sacred in Islamic art and architecture”, 11th Kolloquium der Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft; University of Bamberg”, 2-5 July 2015.
“Changing a Christian sacred landscape”, 4 June 2015, “Lieux saints en Méditerranée entre partage et partition”; MuCEM, Marseille, 3-5 June 2015.
“Late Antique Churches in Early Medieval Syria”, 14 April 2014; Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas, Austin.
“Columns as repository of sacredness in early medieval Syria”, 6 December 2013, “Holy Places in Islam. Early Islam and the Search for a Model”; University of Edinburgh, 5-7 December 2013.
“Churches and mosques in early medieval Syria”, 20 February 2013; Department of Art History, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
“Holy urban precincts. The contiguity of churches and mosques in early Islamic Syria”, 15 February2013, “Shared memory. Use of religious sites in interreligious and interdenominational contexts”; University of Erlangen, 14-15 February 2013.
“Bathhouses, marketplaces, and houses of worship: the early Islamic refurbishment and revitalization of towns in greater Syria”, 1 June 2012, “Cities in the long late antiquity. A day conference”; University of Edinburgh.
“How Islamic are they? Umayyad pavement mosaics in Syria and their setting”, 18 May 2012, “From Influence to Translation, Art of the Global Middle Ages”; University of Edinburgh, 16-18 May 2012.
“Art and Identity in Early Islamic Syria”, 6 Fenruary 2012, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar 2011-2012; IMES, University of Edinburgh.
“How the Umayyads Dealt with the Christian Past”, 11 November 2011, “The Transformation of Antique Spaces in Late Antiquity”; Freie Universität, Berlin, 10-11 November 2011.
“Dal Cristianesimo all’Islam. Luoghi di culto e modificazioni urbanistiche nell’area antiochena”, 7 September 2011, “XXXIII Settimana europea storia religiosa Euro-Mediterranea”; Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (VA), 6-10 September 2011.
“Sharing Places among Communities in Early Islamic Mediterranean”, 10 December 2010, “The Mediterranean. A Liquid Space of Architectures,Images, and Things”; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 9-10 December 2010.
“Cristiani, chiese e monasteri nel primo Egitto musulmano”, 12 November 2010, “Itinerari mediterranei fra IV e IX secolo. Città-capitale e deserto monastico”; Galata Museo del Mare, Genova, 11-13 November 2010.
“Chiese e moschee nella Siria medievale: convivenza, partizione e sostituzione”, 20 May 2010; Facoltà di Conservazione dei Beni Culturali, Università della Tuscia,Viterbo.
“I nazionalismi moderni non si accordano con i passati transnazionali: i casi di Córdoba e Damasco”, 15 April 2010, Lecture withing the seminarial cycle “Constructing the Past in the Present. Remember-Restore-Archive in a Globalized World”; Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Balcanici e Internazionali, Università Ca’ Foscari and Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Venice.
“The ‘partition theory’ and the early mosques in the conquered cities in Bilad al-Sham”, 13 May 2009; Fine Arts and Art History Department, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
“Urban and architectural patterns in Bilad al-Šam between VI and XII century as mirror of social-political relations among different religious communities”, 19 April 2007; Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
“La presenza di Palmira nell’arte umayyade: elementi di continuità e discontinuità”, 20 January 2006, “Giornata di Studi Orientali a Palazzo Cappello: Un viaggio a Palmira”; Dipartimento di Studi eurasiatici, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.
After call for papers
“The Ottoman flag of Urbino and the worship of Holy Mary in early modern Italy”, 2 July 2016, 12th Kolloquium der Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft; TU, Berlin 30 giugno – 3 July 2016.
“On the location of mosques in early medieval Syria”, 29 April 2016, 10th International Congress on the archaeology of the ancient near East; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 25-29 April 2016.
“Ottoman flags in the Marches region”, 17 September 2015, 15th ICTA (International Congress of Turkish Art); University of Naples, 16-18 September 2015.
“Islamic Ani”, 10 April 2014, 67th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians; Austin, TX, 9-13 April 2014.
“Marble and Spolia in Early Islam”, 3 July 2013, 20th International medieval congress; Leeds University, 1-4 July 2013.
“Marble between Churches and Mosques in Early Medieval Syria”, 27 May 2010, “The Aesthetics of Marble: from Late Antiquity to the Present”; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Firenze, 27-29 May 2010.
“Le officine altomedievali nel Mediterraneo orientale tra cultura locale e transnazionale,” 25 September 2009, “Medioevo: le officine”, XII Convegno Internazionale di Studi – AISAME; Parma, 22-27 September 2009.
“L’editto iconoclasta di Yazid II,” 6 December 2008, “L’VIII secolo: un secolo inquieto”; Cividale del Friuli, 4-7 December 2008.
“Early Islam in front of Byzantine Churches”, 16 October 2008, “Spaces and Visions”, 1st congress of the Historians of Islamic Art Association; Philadelphia, PA, 16-19 October 2008.
“The representation of heavenly city and garden in the early Arab-Muslim tradition and its connection with Late Antique culture”, 11 May 2007, 42nd International Conference on Medieval Studies; Kalamazoo, MI, 8-12 May 2007.
“La topographie du sacré dans la Syrie médiévale et ses racines entre les Omeyyades et l’Antiquité tardive”, 1 July 2006, “Héritages omeyyades / Umayyad Legacies”; Institut Français du Proche Orient, Damascus, 29 June – 2 July 2006.
“Damasco e Aleppo nel XII secolo: due casi di reimpiego meditati”, 24 September 2004, “Medioevo Mediterraneo: l’Occidente, Bisanzio e l’Islam dal tardoantico al secolo XII”, VII Convegno Internazionale di Studi – AISAME; Parma, 20-25 September 2004.
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