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PhDr. Miroslav Melčák, Ph.D.


AREAS OF INTEREST
  • Islamic urbanism in northern Mesopotamia
  • history and architecture of Mosul
  • charitable foundations (awqaf)
 
EDUCATION 
  • (2009) Ph.D. in history of the Middle East, Charles University, Prague (Ph.D. thesis: Changing Perceptions of Waqf in the Egyptian Society, 1805–1953; in Czech)
  • (2001) M.A. in Arabic language and history and culture of Islamic countries, Charles University, Prague
 
ACADEMIC CAREER
  • 2009–               Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
  • 2012–2013      executive editor of Nový Orient, a Czech-language refereed journal
  • 2008–2011      Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno (lecturer of Arabic language)
  • 2004–2007      Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague
  • 2004–2005      Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň
  • 2003–2004      postgraduate research scholarship, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt
 
RESEARCH AND PROJECTS
  • A research team member of the project “Monuments of Mosul in Danger” funded by the Czech Academy of Sciences, research programme Strategy AV21 (2015–2019). The other team members :  Ondřej Beránek, Karel Nováček, Lenka Starková
  • A research team member of the project “Monastic settlement as a socio-economic phenomenon in early Islamic Northern Mesopotamia” funded by the Czech Science Foundation (2018–2020)
  • Collaborator of The Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (Università degli Studi di Udine, 2017–2019)
  • A research team member of the project “Death, Graves, and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perception of the Last Things in the Middle Ages and Today” funded by the Czech Science Foundation (2014–2016)
  • A research team member of the project “Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia” (MULINEM) funded by Czech Science Foundation (2013–2015)
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