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Caravanserais, Roads, and Routes in Seljuk Anatolia (2025)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2025). Caravanserais, Roads, and Routes in Seljuk Anatolia. In L. Vandeput, & S. Mitchell (Eds.), Routes and Roads in Anatolia from Prehistory to Seljuk Times. British Institute at Ankara

The 'Halep Arki' (Aleppo Channel), a Mamluk Era Water System for Aleppo (2024)
Journal Article
Demir, T., Ekici Bulut, M., & Redford, S. (2024). The 'Halep Arki' (Aleppo Channel), a Mamluk Era Water System for Aleppo. Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 10(2), 135-144. https://doi.org/10.1558/jia.25256

Due to its low rainfall and limited potential for water retention, northern Syria has always had access to and control of water as one of the main features of states in the region aiming to maintain their rule. This article introduces new information... Read More about The 'Halep Arki' (Aleppo Channel), a Mamluk Era Water System for Aleppo.

Inscribe and de-scribe/cipher and de-cipher : a pious phrase in medieval Byzantium and Islam (2021)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2021). Inscribe and de-scribe/cipher and de-cipher : a pious phrase in medieval Byzantium and Islam. In S. Houston, & J. Bodel (Eds.), The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs: Cryptic Writing and Meaningful Marks (80-99). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886505.007

Over a span of a millennium or more, Maya scribes and sculptors in the Maya lowlands used a writing system notable for its formal complexity and close links to imagery. At times, in so-called full-figure writing, glyphic elaboration erupts into a wel... Read More about Inscribe and de-scribe/cipher and de-cipher : a pious phrase in medieval Byzantium and Islam.

Medieval Turkey (2021)
Book Chapter
Redford, S., Insoll, T., & Fenwick, C. (2021). Medieval Turkey. In B. Walker (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199987870.013.6

In this chapter, Islamic archaeology of the medieval (11th–14th centuries) period in Turkey is related to international as well as national developments in the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey in areas like cultural policy, economic dev... Read More about Medieval Turkey.

One Man, Two Caravanserais (2021)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2021). One Man, Two Caravanserais. In A. U. Peker, & N. Şahin Güçhan (Eds.), Topluma Adanmış bir Yaşam Prof. Dr. Ömür Bakırer Armağanı. Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture Press

Flags of the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia: Visual and textual evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2020). Flags of the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia: Visual and textual evidence. In N. Vryzidis (Ed.), The hidden life of textiles in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean : Contexts and cross-cultural encounters in the Islamic, Latinate and Eastern Christian worlds. Brepols

Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250) (2017)
Book Chapter
Hoffman, E., & Redford, S. (2017). Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250). In F. B. Flood, & G. Necipoğlu (Eds.), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (2 vols) (405-430). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch16

This chapter aims both to expand and to question traditional fixed categorizations of works of art and the medieval cultures around the central and eastern Mediterranean that produced them. Like the Serce Limani glassware, many works of art crossed p... Read More about Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean (1050-1250).

Medieval Arsenals in Anatolia: Sinop and Alanya (2015)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2015). Medieval Arsenals in Anatolia: Sinop and Alanya. In S. Ladstätter, F. Pirson, & T. Schmidts (Eds.), Harbors and Harbor Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean from Antiquity to Byzantium. Recent Discoveries and New Approaches (543-552). Ege Yayinlari

Port Saint Symeon Ceramics and Cyprus (2014)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2014). Port Saint Symeon Ceramics and Cyprus. In D. Papanikola-Bakirtzi, & N. Coureas (Eds.), Cypriot Medieval Ceramics: Reconsiderations and New Perspectives (125-151). The Cyprus Research Centre and The A. G. Leventis Foundation

Constantinople, Konya, Conical Kiosks, Cultural Confluence (2013)
Book Chapter
Redford, S. (2013). Constantinople, Konya, Conical Kiosks, Cultural Confluence. In A. Ödekan, N. Necipoğlu, & E. Akyürek (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Conference (48-54). Vehbi Koç Foundation