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Nicole Kançal-Ferrari

Associate Professor, History of Architecture
Faculty of Architecture and Design
Marmara University, Istanbul

Contact / nicole.kancalferrari@gmail.com

Nicole Kançal-Ferrari’s special interests include the material culture of the Northern Black Sea Region, with a specific focus on the Golden Horde and Crimean Khanates, the culture of death in the Ottoman environment, and Islamic visual and architectural culture and its agency. Currently, she is working on a larger project related to Turco-Islamic inscriptions in Crimea. She has co-published inventories of Muslim heritage based on extensive fieldwork in Crimea and Georgia.

Her recent publications include :

●(co-authored with Fatma Meliha Şen) “Inscriptions from the Golden Horde Period and the Crimean Khanate in Crimea: a Body of Hitherto Neglected Material within the Study of the Inscriptions of Islamic Lands,” in Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World. Eds. Bernard O’Kane, A. C. S. Peacock, Mark Muehlhaeusler (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), 324-359;

●“The Ruler’s Clothes and the Manifold Dimensions of Textile Patterns on Muslim Funeral Architecture in the Mausoleum of the First Crimean Khans,” Textile in Architecture. Eds. Patricia Blessing, Didem Ekici, Basile Baudez (Routledge, 2023),172-193;

●“Transcultural Ornamentation and Heraldic Symbols: An Investigation into the Aesthetic Language of the Architecture and Artistic Environment in Early Modern Crimea and the Northern Black Sea Shore,” From Riverbed to Seashore: Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period (1400-1700). Ed. Alina Payne (Brill, 2022), 152-176.