Publications

Books

—:   Dionigi Albera, and Manoël Pénicaud, eds. Lieux saints en Méditerranée. Entre partage et partition (forthcoming).

—:   Stefan Leder, and Hans-Peter Pökel, eds. Angels and Humankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near Eastern and Islamic Traditions. Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS). Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag (forthcoming).

—:   2017. Monsters or Bearers of Life-Giving Powers? Trans-Religious Migrations of Ancient Western Asian Symbolism. With a Foreword by Lokesh Chandra. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Co-Published: D. K. Printworld (50 full colour illustrations).

—:   2011. The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art. With a Foreword by Robert Hillenbrand. Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 86, Leiden and Boston: Brill (200 full colour and b/w illustrations).

Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Volumes

—:   2017. "Pilgrimage as Muslim Religious Commemoration: The Case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Herzegovina." In: Ingvild Flaskerud, and R. J. Natvig, eds. Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, New York: Routledge, 98–117.

—:   "Variations of the Airborne Theme of 'Ganymede and the Eagle': Modes of Rendition of Spiritual Ascent in the Greater Persian World." In: Yuka Kadoi, ed. The Visual World of Persianate Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).

—:   "The Interplay of the Angels and the Prophet Muḥammad in the Earliest Images of the Prophet in Islamic Art." In: June-Ann Greeley, ed. Comparative Medieval Angelology, Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming).

—:   "Bektāshi Visual Culture in the Western Balkans: On the Agency and Affectivity of Figurative Paintings and Prints." Acta Orientalia, 69 (forthcoming).

—:   "Suhrawardī Maqtūl’s Allegory of Beauty." In: Sabine Dorpmüller, Ines Weinrich, Max Stille, and Jan Scholz, eds. Aesthetics of the Sublime: Religious Texts and Rhetorical Theory, Heidelberg: Springer (forthcoming).

—:   "Symbolic Characteristics of the Practice of Spiritual Retreat (Khalwa) in the Teachings of Sayyid Yaḥyā al-Shirwānī al-Bākūbī and His Spiritual Lineage." In: Thierry Zarcone, ed. The Khalwatiyya Soufi Order - L'Ordre soufi Khalwatiyya, Journal d'Histoire du Soufisme (JHS), 7 (forthcoming).

—:   "Oneiric Horizons and Cross-Cultural Convergences? Ṣarī Ṣaltūq Once More." In: Dionigi Albera, Sara Kuehn, and Manoël Pénicaud, eds. Lieux saints en Méditerranée. Entre partage et partition (forthcoming).

—:   "Footprints and Miraculous Journeys: The Archetypal Missionary Dervish-Warrior." In: Andreas Görke, and Mattia Guidetti, eds. Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).

—:   "The Primordial Cycle Revisited: Adam, Eve and the Angels.: In: Stefan Leder, Sara Kuehn, and Hans-Peter Pökel, eds. Angels and Mankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near Eastern and Islamic Traditions, Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS), Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag (forthcoming).

—:   "Material Culture of the Sufi Orders of Islam in the Western Balkans." In: Suzanna Ivanič, Mary Laven, and Andrew Morrall, eds. Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (forthcoming).

—:   "'The Ignorance of Where the Body Really Was Would Produce Everywhere a Pilgrimage of Muslims': The Performed Representations of the Archetypal Missionary Dervish‐Warrior Ṣarī Ṣaltūq in the Balkans." In: Daphna Ephrat, Ethel Sara Wolper, and Paulo G. Pinto, eds. Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes, Brill Handbook of Oriental Studies, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).

—:   "Traces of the Asrār al-tawḥīd on the Architectural Decoration of the Mausoleum of Abū Sa‛īd ibn Abī 'l-Khair Maihanī." and "The Legacy of the Great Shaykh Abū Sa‛īd ibn Abī 'l-Khair Maihanī." In: Muhammad Mamedov, The Architectural Complex of Abū Sa‛īd ibn Abī 'l-Khair Maihanī in Northern Khurasan, Tim Williams, ed. University College London Institute of Archaeology, London (forthcoming).

—:   2016. "The Eclipse Demons Rāhu and Ketu in Islamic Astral Sciences." In: Dmitriy Antonov, and Olga Khristoforova, eds. In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System, 5, Moscow: Indrik, 211–244.

—:   "An Unusual Large Circular Compartmented 'Stamp Seal' of the Goddess with Animals: Some Thoughts on the Religious Symbol System of the Central Asian Bronze Age Culture of Bactria-Margiana.: In: Nadezhda Dubova, ed. Transactions of the Margiana Archaeological Expedition: In Memory of Professor Victor Sarianidi 6, Moscow, 305–322.

—:   "Vestiges of the Ourobóros in Medieval Islamic Visual Tradition." In: Rolf A. von Stucky, Oskar Kaelin, and Hans-Peter Mathys, eds. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 169–182.
 
—:   2015. "Twelver Shīʿī Components in Contemporary Bektāši Visual Piety in the Western Balkans? A Note on Bektāši Visual Culture." In: Irina Vainovski‑Mihai, ed. NEC Institute for Advanced Study Yearbook 2013–2014, Bucharest 2015, 289–334.

—:   2014. "Engel im Islam [Angels in Islam]." In: Maria Theisen, ed. Engel – himmlische Boten in alten Handschriften. Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, November 2014 – Januar 2015 [Angels – Celestial Messengers in Ancient Manuscripts. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Austrian National Library, November 2014–January 2015], Darmstadt: Lambert Schneider, 138–171.

—:   "The Dragon Fighter: The Influence of Zoroastrian Ideas on Judaeo-Christian and Islamic Iconography." Zoroastrianism in the Levant, ARAM Periodical (ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies), 26 (1 and 2), Leuven: Peeters, 65–101.

—:   "Ungeheuer als Träger lebensspendender Macht? Transreligiöse Migrationen einer alten Symbolik im Vorderen Orient (9.–14. Jh.) [Monsters as Bearers of Life-Giving Power? Transreligious Migrations of an Ancient Symbolism in the Near East (9th-14th century)]." EOTHEN, 4, 168–188.

—:   "'Escaping the Jaws of Death': Some Visual Conceptualisations in Late Medieval Islamic and Eastern Christian Art." In: Dmitriy Antonov, and Olga Khristoforova, eds. In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System, 3, Moscow: Indrik, 133–164.

—:   "The Dragon in Transcultural Skies: Its Celestial Aspect in the Medieval Islamic World." In: Niels Gutschow, and Katharina Weiler, eds. Spirits in Transcultural Skies, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg: Springer, 71–97.