Mastertheses
– in preparation
Mirjam HANNEN: Das Motiv der Bäume in früher safawidischer Buchillustration [Tree Motifs in Early Safavid Book Illustration]
Musab KAYA: Der spätosmanische und frührepublikanische Mevlana-Konvent in Konya: die Anlage und ihre Umgebung nach historischen Fotografien des 19.-20. Jh. [The late Ottoman and early Republican Mevlana Convent in Konya: the complex and its environment through historical photographs of the 19th–20th centuries]
Tess Marisol SCHLAGER: Buchmalerei in Schiras um 1500: Formen und Funktionen von Bildern der Khamsa von Nizami in Cod. A.F. 93 der ÖNB Wien [Book illustration in Shiraz around 1500: Forms and Function of Imagery in Nizami's Khamsa Cod. A.F. 93, Austrian National Library, Vienna]
Münteha UYSAL: Osmanische Karten und Bilder in der persischen Übersetzung von al-Istakhris Geographie: Formen und Ikonographie von Cod. mixt. 344 der ÖNB Wien, 16. Jhdt. [Ottoman Maps and Images in the Persian translation of al-Istakhri's Geography: Form and Iconography of Cod. mixt. 344, Austrian National Library, Vienna, 16th c.]
– finished
Sophia ABPLANALP: Die Lüsterfliesen-Ausstattung des Imāmzādeh Yaḥyā in Warāmin, Iran [The Lustre Tile Design in the Imamzadeh Yahya, Varamin, Iran] (2023)
Ajla BAJRAMOVIC: Orientalizing Architecture in Northeastern Bosnia Under Habsburg Rule (2021) Available in library
Roman BRUGGER: Das seldschukische Doppel-Minarett-Portal der sogenannten „Imam Hasan Moschee“ in Ardistan [Twin Minaret Portals in Saljuq architecture of Central Iran: the So-called "Masjid-i Imam Hasan" in Ardistan] (2018) Available in library
Suzanne COMPAGNON: The Depiction of Women Attributed to the Ottoman Painter Levni in the Album H.2164 (2017). Online available
Christina M. FRITZ, Die Bogenornamentik der Aljafería in Zaragoza: Themen und Entwicklungsgeschichte im Vergleich (2019). In library available
Christine KELLNER: Tierdarstellungen mit Nimbus in der Illustration arabischer und persischer Bücher des 12.-13. Jahrhunderts [Animals with Nimbus in Illustrations of Arabic and Persian Books of the 12-13th Centuries] (2019) Available in library
Angela KOPPEL: Der Stuckdekor von Kharab Sayyar [Stucco Decoration at Kharab Sayyar] (Univ. Frankfurt am Main 2009, in the discipline Western Asian Archaeology, co-supervisor Jan-Waalke Meyer). Awarded with the „Mediterran-Preis zur Förderung des Nachwuchses in der Archäologie". Revised publication: Die Stuckarbeiten aus Kharab Sayyar: Das Große Haus und die Moschee, Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2020.
Franziska NIEMAND: Orientalische Architektur und fotografische Dokumentation der Wiener Weltausstellung 1873 ["Oriental" Architecture and Photo Documentation in the 1873 Vienna World's Fair] (2020).
Elika PALENZONA-DJALILI: Die Illustrationen der Anekdotenhistorie Tārīḫ-i Nigāristān des Qāḍī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ġaffārī in der Aga Khan Sammlung in Genf (AKM 272) [The illustrations of the anecdotal history Tarikh-i Nigaristan by Qadi Ahmad ibn Muhammad Taqi Nuri] (Univ. Zürich 2011).
Paul PICHLER: Ali Karbalai Qarabaghi: Ein Moschee-Baumeister und sein Werk in der Architekturlandschaft Azerbaijans im 19. Jahrhundert [Ali Karbalai Qarabaghi: A mosque building master and his work in the architectural landscape of Azerbaijan in the 19th century ] (2024)
Nina R. PULFER: (Selbst)-Repräsentation schiitischer Geistlicher des 19. Jh. in Iran im fotografischen Werk von Abū-l-Qāsim Ibn Muḥammad Taqi Nūrī [(Self)-representation of Shiite clerics in 19th-century Iran in the photography oeuvre of Abu-l-Qasim ibn Muhammad Taqi Nuri] (Univ. Zürich 2013, in the discipline Islamic Studies, co-supervisor Ulrich Rudolph).
Agnes RAMEDER: Azadeh Akhlagi’s Photograph Series By an Eye Witness in the Context of Staged Photography in Tehran/Iran (2016). Online available
Pia RAZENBERGER: Die Schmuckseite in Koranillumination Westasiens von ca. 970–1250 [Decorative Frontispieces in Quran illumination c. 970–1250 A.D.] (2015). Online available
Luana SCHÄFER: The Illustrations of the 1334 Maqāmāt in the Austrian National Library, A.F. 9 (2022), Ernst Gombrich Award 2023 for the best Master Thesis. Available in library, abstract
Nurefşan ÜLKER, Die Darstellung der osmanischen Sultane im physiognomischen Traktat Şemailname der Bilderhandschrift H.O. 25 (um 1590, Wien, ÖNB) [The Image of the Ottoman Sultans in the Physiognomic Treatise Şemailname of the Illustrated Manuscript H.O. 25 (c. 1590, Vienna, Austrian National Library, c. 1590)] (2023). Online available
PhD Theses
– in preparation
Salma AZZAM: Beylik Architecture in Anatolia: Patronage and Epigraphy
Sophie DIEBERGER, Der Bildzyklus des Roman de Troie Cod. 2571 (Wien, ÖNB): Form, Funktion und Bedeutung einer profanen Buchausstattung im Oberitalien des Trecento [The Image Cycle of the Romance of Troy Cod. 2571 (Vienna, Austrian National Library): Form, Function, and Meaning of a Profane Book in Upper Italy and the Trecento] (co-supervised with Michael Schwarz)
Mikhail GRACHÉV: The Art and Production of Ceramic Vessels in 19th-Century Iran: Dynamics of Demand, Types, Imagery, and Persian Epigraphy in the Age of Historicism
S. Abdolreza HOSSEINI: Gardebardari: Practices and Concepts of Pounces in Persian Art
Franziska NIEMAND: Glass Stucco Windows at World's Fairs and International Exhibitions of the 19th Century (Université de Fribourg, co-supervised with Francine Giese)
Mahdieh Khwajeh PIRI: Garden Traditions at Bijapur in the Early Modern Deccan Sultanates
Mina RAMEZAN JAMAAT: Historical Wall Painting in Early 19th-century Qajar Iran (co-supervisor Christoph Werner)
Olga TORTSOVA: Persian Book Painting at 17th-Century Bukhara
– finished
Suzanne COMPAGNON, The Depiction of Costume in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Painting (co-supervisor Tülay Artan) (2023)
Ayşegül Damla GÜRKAN-ANAR: Istanbul and Isfahan in the early seventeenth century: Masjed-e Shah and Sultan Ahmed Complexes (Boğaziçi University Istanbul, member of thesis committee) (2023). Center for Iranian Studies in Turkey (IRAM), Best PhD Dissertation Award 2023. Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Projects Commission, Doctoral Dissertation Award 2023.
Safa MAHMOUDIAN: Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia From the Eighth To Eleventh Centuries (co-supervised with Basema Hamarneh and Mehrdad Qayoomi-Bidhendi) (2021). Revised publication: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Ali MOLOODI: Epic Imagery in 12th–14th centuries Iran and Narratives of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (University of Tehran, co-supervisor, supervisor Haedeeh Laleh) (2020).
Corinne MÜHLEMANN: Mittelalterliche Gold-Seide-Streifenstoffe in Westasien [Medieval striped cloth of silk and gold in Western Asia] (Universität Bern, co-supervisor Birgitt Borkopp-Restle) (2018). Revised publication: Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks, Affalterbach: Didymos, 2023.
Agnes RAMEDER: Picturing the (Un)Dead: Reflections and Deconstructions of Lebanese Martyr Posters in Contemporary-Art-Practices (co-supervisor, supervised by Bettina Gockel) (2023). Revised publication: Picturing the (Un)Dead in Beirut: Appropriations of Martyr Posters and Other Images of the Physically Deceased, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2025.
Saedeh SETAYESH: Documentary Photography and Historical Memory in Iran: the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) (co-supervised with Bettina Gockel) (2023).
Negin TABATABAEI: Urban Development and the Promotion of Twelver Shiism in Architectural Inscriptions of Safavid Isfahan (University of Tehran, co-supervisor, supervised by Haedeeh Laleh) (2020).
Zehra TONBUL: An Art Historiographical Odyssey of Ernst Diez: the Austrian Impact on Islamic Art History in Turkey (Boğaziçi University Istanbul 2017, co-supervisor, supervisor Ahmet Ersoy, further committee members: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Oya Pancaroglu, Wendy Shaw, Bülent Tanju)
– external reference/defense
Julia ALLERSTORFER: Representing the Unrepresentable: Strategien der De/Konstruktion von Identität in der zeitgenössischen iranischen Videokunst am Beispiel von Simin Keramati und Shahram Entekhabi (external reference, Cahtolic Private Univ. Linz 2014, supervisor Monika Leisch-Keisl).
Alice BOMBARDIER: La peinture iranienne au XXème siècle (1911-2009): historique, courants esthétiques et voix d’artistes. Contribution à l’étude des enjeux de l’art en Iran à l’époque contemporaine (member of commission, Cotutelle Université de Gèneve and École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris, 2012, supervisors Silvia Naef and Farhad Khosrokhavar). Revised publication: Les pionniers de la Nouvelle peinture en Iran: Ouvres méconnues, activités novatrices et scandales au tournant des années 1940, Bern: Peter Lang, 2017.
Isabelle IMBERT: La peinture de fleurs persane et indienne de la periode moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles), (member of commission, Univ. Paris-IV-Sorbonne 2015, supervisor Jean-Pierre van Stavel).
Ilse STURKENBOOM: The Imagery of the Manṭiq al-Ṭayr: A Fifteenth-Century History of Illustrated Manuscripts Incorporating ʿAṭṭār’s Conference of the Birds (Defensio, Univ. Bamberg 2016, supervisors Birgitt Hoffmann and Lorenz Korn).
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