Karel Nováček, Miroslav Melčák, Ondřej Beránek, Lenka Stárková. Mosul after Islamic State - The Quest for Lost Architectural Heritage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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)
