Zakariya Naimat

Zakaria Naimat is a Jordanian archaeologist who works closely with the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan.
Education
In 1988, he earned his BA from Mu'tah University in the Karak Governorate.
His MA is from the Yarmouk University, which he earned in 2004, where he specialized in anthropology and the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.
He is currently pursuing his PhD in the Annemarie Schimmel College for Mamluk Studies at the University of Bonn, which he began in 2014. or desert oases and recreational buildings across the Levant. He adds an economic and spatial dimension to the existing literature about the palaces' architecture, history, and aesthetics. He explains the fiscal and agricultural infrastructure, and its relationship to the goal of centralized imperial power, that was improved greatly under Umayyad administration.
He has applied much of this analysis to the site of Shuqayra al-Garbiyya, formerly known as Naqb al-Qusba, or Khirbat al-Qusba. It is an Umayyad building. He has been involved in excavations at this site, directed at Mu'tah University, since 2005.<ref name=":1" />
Published Works<ref name":1" /> ==
* Shuqayra al-Gharbiyya: an Early Islamic Elite Community in Central Jordan. al- Al-`Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists, Vol.21, Nos 1&2 April 2009 Pp. 8-13. Appeared in October 2012
* Shuqayra al-Gharbiyya: an Early Islamic Compound on the Karak plateau. Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 71.3. Pp. 185-188. 2008.
* Mu’tah University Excavations at Shuqayra al-Gharbiyya; Preliminary Report on the 2005 Season. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. Vol. 50. Pp. 205-216. (co-author). 2005.
* Early Bronze Age I Mortuary “Cities” in the Southern Ghors of Jordan. pp 7-8 in ACOR Newsletter. Vol.13.2-3 Winter 2001.

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