Vita
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Junior Professorin für Islamische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte Raum 5.516 Tel: 069/798-32292
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Short biography
- 2000-2003
BA in the Department of Middle East Studies & Department of Bible, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) - 2005-2008
Master in the Department of Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) - 2013-2019
PhD in the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Stefan Heidemann and Prof. Donat Wehner. Dissertation title: “Landscaping Early Islam: The History of Settlement in Central Israel during the 7th-11th Centuries through Archaeology, Terminology and Narratives”. - 2020-2022
Post-Doctorate Marie-Curie fellow, Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). - Since 2023
Junior Professor for Islamic Archaeology and Art History, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Main interests
- Settlement patterns and migration during the Early Islamic period
- The formation of Islam: beliefs, rituals, texts
- Economic and social history of the early medieval period
- The diffusion of knowledge and ideas
- Archaeological thought and method
- Landscape Archaeology
- Digital Humanities
Funded research projects
- 2020-2022
"Early Manifestations of Islam: A Critical Worldwide Survey of Mosques in the First Three Centuries of the Hijra (622-913 AD) through Archaeology and Arabic Terminology”, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801505.
Interesting collaborations!
- Ḥajar online workshops on Islamic Archaeology (since 2021).
- Material sources for Early Islam and Late Antique Near East website, organized by Ed Hayes and Petra Sijpesteijn, Leiden University (since 2019).
Publications
Monographs and edited volumes
- Nol, Hagit (ed.), 2021. Riches Beyond the Horizon: Long-Distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th-12th Centuries), Medieval and Post-Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology Series 4, Turnhourt: Brepols. doi: 10.1484/M.MPMAS-EB.5.128663
- Nol, Hagit, 2022. Settlement and Urbanization in Early Islamic Palestine, 7th-11th Centuries: Texts and Archaeology Contrasted, Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East, Abingdon and New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003176169
Databases
- Nol, Hagit (ed.), 2021. “Early Islamic Mosques Database”, Open Context, released on 2021-11-14. https://opencontext.org/projects/168-early-islamic-mosques-database
Articles, book reviews, and conferences