Lorenz KornMarkus Ritter is Assistant Professor for the History of Islamic Art at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He studied in Bamberg, Cairo and Teheran, and received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Bamberg. He taught at different universitiesand was a researcher in the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. His areas of research include the arts and architecture in Iran and in Early Islamic Palestine. Lorenz Korn is Professor for Islamic Art History at the University of Bamberg. He studied in Tubingen and Oxford, received his PhD in 1999 from the University of Tubingen and was Aga Khan postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in 1999-2000. His areas of research include architecture and architectural decoration in the central Islamic lands (10th-16th century), Iranian metalwork, and epigraphy. Read More Read Less