The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria – Evolution and Impact

Prof. Dr. Doris Behrens-Abouseif holds the chair of Islamic Art andArchaeology at SOAS, University of London. She studied at the American University in Cairo and in Germany at the University of Hamburg and the University of Freiburg. Before joining SOAS in 2000, she taught Islamic Art at the American University in Cairo and at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich in Germany. She is member of the Academia Europaea..
Stephan Conermann, PhD, is the Speaker of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bonn. His research interests include slaveries, narrative strategies in historiographic texts, transition periods, reconciliation processes, global history, and rule and power. His work is focused on the Mamluk and Delhi Sultanates, the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, and the Crossroads Area “Transottomanica.”