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Interdisciplinary Fellowships, Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Interdisciplinary Fellowships, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University The Yale Institute of Sacred Music is an interdisciplinary center where scholars and artists engage in academic and creative work…
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Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book, Cailah Jackson
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s: Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book
The first in-depth survey of illuminated manuscripts from Anatolia before the rise of the Ottoman Empire
- Meticulously analyses 15 Persian and Arabic manuscripts including the Mas̲navī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1278), the Qaramanid Qur’an (1314-15) and the Dīvān-i Kabīr of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1368)
- Translates new and unpublished primary sources on the cultural history of the period, including manuscript colophons, dedications and endowment notes
- Includes a comprehensive catalogue of key manuscripts
- Fully illustrated in colour with many unpublished or hard-to-find images
Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rūm were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume. Meticulously analysing 15 beautifully decorated Arabic and Persian manuscripts, including Qur’ans, mirrors-for-princes, historical chronicles and Sufi works, Cailah Jackson traces the development of calligraphy and illumination in late medieval Anatolia. She shows that the central Anatolian city of Konya, in particular, was a dynamic centre of artistic activity and that local Turcoman princes, Seljuk bureaucrats and Mevlevi dervishes all played important roles in manuscript production and patronage
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Wonder by Design in Medieval Architecture, CAA 2021
CAA Conference, NYC, Feb 10-13, 2021
Wonder by Design in Medieval Architecture Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State UniversityEmail Address(s): santhi@sfsu.edu In the global history of medieval architecture, few…
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HIAA-sponsored discussion of online resources for the teaching of Islamic art
The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT). Click here to view this resource.
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President's Letter and Note from the Secretary, August 2020
Letter from the President August 4, 2020 Dear Colleagues, These are difficult times and they touch each of us in different ways, I hope this newsletter finds you as well as can be. At times like this…
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Statement from the Board of HIAA Condemning Anti-Black Bias and Systemic Racism
The disproportionate killing of Black Americans by police brought into relief by the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, and Breonna Taylor once again showed the world…
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Manar al-Athar Open-Access Photo-Archive
The Manar al-Athar photo-archive, based at the University of Oxford, provides high resolution, searchable images for teaching, research, publication and heritage work. These images of archaeological sites, buildings and artworks, cover the areas of the former Roman Empire which later came under Islamic rule (such as Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Egypt and North Africa), and adjoining regions, such as Armenia and Georgia. The chronological range is from Alexander the Great (i.e from about 300 BC) through the Islamic period.
The photo-archive is open-access so that it can be freely used by anyone anywhere in the world. Photographs can be freely downloaded as original high-resolution images (tif images) without watermarks, making them immediately available in a format suitable for publication or research, simply by acknowledging the source. Material is labelled in both English and Arabic to facilitate regional use, with the main instructions also available in some other languages.
The Manar al-Athar photo-archive currently has c. 70 000 images online, but is in continuous development. Current strengths include Late Antiquity (AD 250–750), the period of transition from paganism to Christianity and, in turn, to Islam, especially religious buildings (temples, churches, synagogues, mosques) and monumental art (including floor mosaics), early Islamic art (paintings, mosaics, relief sculpture), as well as Roman and early Islamic (Umayyad) architecture, and iconoclasm
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Association for Art History 2021 Annual Conference 14 – 17 April 2021
University of Birmingham
The Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. It is an opportunity to keep up to date with new research, broaden…
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Association for Art History 2021 Annual Conference 14 – 17 April 2021
University of Birmingham
The Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. It is an opportunity to keep up to date with new research, broaden…
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Pierre Siméon, From Ordinary to Luxury. Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan. Studies on the Bumiller Collection I (ed. Verena Daiber), 2020
"From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight into the most diverse wares of daily life. Pierre Siméon’s expertise and hands-on experience as an archaeologist are invaluable assets for the knowledge of provenance and distribution of Iranian and Central Asian pottery. Apart from that, his study takes into account the works of our Russian colleagues, that have gone without adequate acknowledgement for decades due to the language barrier.
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The Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship, 2020-2021 (deadline May 31)
Hajji Baba Club
The Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship seeks to encourage and support fundamental research in the field of carpet studies by established scholars and early-career scholars of outstanding promise. One…
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Special Issue: “Hinterland Forces: Architectural Responses at the Margins”
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
Thematic volume planned for July 2022, Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2020 The hinterland is a realm beyond the known, beyond the confines of the urban core, or beyond the acceptable…
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