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Lorenz Korn
Lorenz Korn is professor of Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses on architecture, architectural decoration, and urbanism in the central Islamic lands between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries. He has done numerous field surveys and completed archaeological work in Iran and Uzbekistan. His publications include Ayyubidische Architektur in Ägypten und Syrien (Heidelberger Orientverlag, 2004) and Islamic Art in Oman (with A. al-Salimi and Heinz Gaube, Mazoon, 2008) as well as recent articles on the German Fountain in Istanbul, relics of the Prophet Muhammad, and various aspects of the architecture of Iran and Central Asia.
Contact: Universität Bamberg, Institut für Orientalistik, 96045 Bamberg, Germany.