Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann (Islamic Studies) supervised, until 2019, the ERC-Advanced Grant Project, The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center. The project explains the development of the early Islamic Empire through the transformation of regions and their interaction with the caliphal center, as well as the center’s links with transregional elites. Through topics of administrative geography, regional and transregional elites, and regional economic resources, the ERC Project has developed new understandings of the distinction between regional and transregional developments and has provided a conceptual apparatus essential for transcending tendencies of contemporary “national” history writing in the Maghreb and Spain. The study of trade is essential to its research. The exchange of precious metals and slaves were of primary importance to North Africa and Spain. Stefan Heidemann has published on the trade of silver from the Atlas with the Middle East, and on coin circulation in al-Andalus. He also initiated and directs the “Webinar Initiative in Islamic Material Culture” in which colleagues of LMU München, Universität Bonn, and New York University participate in the field of material culture through research-based teaching; he is also a co-PI in the Hamburger Cluster of Excellence “Understanding the Written Artifact,” where he is active in the area of “Inscribing Spaces” (epigraphy).

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Heidemann, Stefan/ Hagemann, Hannah-Lena, eds., (2020), Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire, The Early Islamic Empire at Work Vol.1 (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), Berlin: DeGruyter.

Heidemann, Stefan/ Schierl, Thomas/ Teichner, Félix (2018), “Coins from the Seaside. An Emiral Silver Coin Hoard from a Harbour Settlement on the Cerro da Vila (Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal)”, al-Qantara 39, 169-224. https://doi.org/10.3989/alqantara.2018.006.

Heidemann, Stefan (2015), “How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry”, in: Daniella Talmon-Heller and Katia Cytryn-Silverman, eds., Material Evidence and Narrative Sources, Leiden: Brill, 30-57.

Heidemann, Stefan (2013), “Memory and Ideology: Images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq”, in: Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle, eds., Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 57-81.

Heidemann, Stefan (2011 a), “The Agricultural Hinterland of Baghdad, al-Raqqa and Samarra'”, in: Antoine Borrut, Muriel Debie, Arietta Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri and J. P. Sodini, eds., Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbasides. Peuplement et dynamiques spatiales, Turnhout: Brepols, 43-58.

Heidemann, Stefan (2011 b), “The Circulation of North African Dirhams in Northern Mesopotamia - The Dirham Hoard of Tall al-Bīʿa / al-Raqqa (t.p.q. 186/802)”, Revue Numismatique 167, 451-470.

Heidemann, Stefan (2009), “Charity and Piety for the Transformation of the Cities. The New Direction in Taxation and Waqf Policy in Mid-Twelfth-Century Syria and Northern Mesopotamia”, in: Miriam Frenkel and Yaacov Lev, eds., Charity and Giving in Monotheistic Religions, Berlin: De Gruyter, 149-195.

Heidemann, Stefan (2008), „Entwicklung und Selbstverständnis mittelalterlicher Städte in der Islamischen Welt“, in: Kurt-Ulrich Jaeschke and Christhard Schrenk, eds., Was machte im Mittelalter zur Stadt? Selbstverständnis, Außensicht und Erscheinungsbilder mittelalterlicher Städte (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Stadt Heilbronn 18), Heilbronn, 203-244.

Heidemann, Stefan (2002), Die Renaissance der Städte in Nordsyrien und Nordmesopotamien, Städtische Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Bedingungen in ar-Raqqa und Ḥarrān von der Zeit der beduinischen Vorherrschaft bis zu den Seldschuken (The Renaissance of the Cities in Northern Syria and Northern Mesopotamia. Urban Development and Economic Conditions in al-Raqqa and Ḥarrān from the Period of Bedouin Domination to the Seljūqs), Leiden: Brill.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Heidemann

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