Hammam

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Hammam

Asa Eger

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Sourdel-Thomine, Janine and A. Louis. “Ḥammām.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Citation:

Asa Eger, “Hammam,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 2 February 2023.

Asa Eger (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008) is Professor of the Islamic World in the History Department at the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. He researches and teaches the Early and Medieval Mediterranean and Islamic Near East, focusing on the intersection of archaeology and history. Specifically, he studies frontiers, landscape archaeology, and environmental history in Anatolia and the Levant. He also works on gender and queer archaeology related to bathhouses in modern Istanbul and the Roman world. His recent books include Antioch: A History (2021), co-authored with Andrea U. de Giorgi, and The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier (2015), both recipients of the G. Ernest Wright book award from ASOR.