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Professor Stefan Heidemann is a specialist in Islamic history and material culture at the University of Hamburg's Faculty of Humanities. His research focuses on Islamic numismatics, archaeology, and manuscript studies, with particular expertise in the early Islamic empire and material artifacts. He directs projects examining archival practices and spatial dimensions of historical documents.
Research interests span Islamic urbanization processes, economic systems in medieval Near East, cultural exchange along trade routes, numismatic evidence as historical sources, and transformation of material culture across empires.
His publications demonstrate consistent focus on material evidence from Islamic world, particularly coins, inscriptions, and architectural remains. Recent works examine military technology in medieval Near East and transregional elite networks in early Islamic period.
