Book
Mohamed Zakariya, A 21st century Master Calligrapher
Edited by Nancy Micklewright
We are delighted to announce the publication of an edited volume, Mohamed Zakariya, A 21st century Master Calligrapher. This collection of peer-reviewed essays and images is the first to present a comprehensive…
ViewHIAA Members-Only Content
If you have an active membership, log in here. If you are not yet a member, please join us.
HIAA Recorded Events
HIAA Panel: Research and Resources in Islamic Art History
On April 8, 2022, HIAA invited scholars Jake Benson (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Fine Arts Library, Harvard University) to discuss with members how to best develop productive research methods and how to utilize relevant resources, such as manuscript repositories, museums, and libraries. The panel discussion was followed with by an open Q&A.
ViewHIAA Members-Only Content
If you have an active membership, log in here. If you are not yet a member, please join us.
HIAA Recorded Events
HIAA Conversation with Massumeh Farhad - "Fashioning an Empire"
"Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha"
A recorded conversation between HIAA President, Prof. Kishwar Rizvi (Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, Yale University) and Dr. Massumeh Farhad (Senior Associate Director for Research, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish Art, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art) about the ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, (December 18, 2021 - May 15, 2022).
Friday, May 6, 2022
View
Book
Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning. Essays in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand
Edited by Melanie Gibson
This volume of articles dedicated to Robert Hillenbrand includes contributions by his colleagues and students. Thirteen essays encompass some of his wide-ranging interests, with one section devoted to…
View
Book
Treasures of Herat. Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
by Barbara Brend, Translation and commentary by Ursula Sims-Williams
In this book, Barbara Brend provides a detailed study of the paintings in two celebrated Persian manuscripts housed in the British Library (Or.6810 and Add.25900). These two copies of the Khamsah of Nizami…
View
Book
Revealing the Unseen. New Perspectives on Qajar Art
Edited by Gwenaëlle Fellinger & Melanie Gibson
This new book, a co-publication with the Louvre, consolidates the major achievement of the 2018 exhibition held at the Museum of Louvre-Lens, L’Empire des roses. Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’art persan du…
View
Book
Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi: The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Authors: Ulrich Marzolph and Roxana Zenhari
Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi is the unsurpassed master of the art of illustration in Persian lithographed books of the Qajar period, both in terms of quality and quantity of production. In the decade of documented…
View
Call for Papers
SAH 2023 Montréal: “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Montréal)”
Call for PapersSociety of Architectural Historians
2023 Annual International Conference
April 12–16 in Montréal, Canada
September 20–22 Virtual View
HIAA Members-Only Content
If you have an active membership, log in here. If you are not yet a member, please join us.
Call for Participation
HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by June 07, 2022
HIAA
The HIAA board is now gathering information to compile in the summer edition of the newsletter (past editions of the newsletter are available on the HIAA website). We would love to hear from members…
ViewCall for Participation
HIAA Majlis at CAA 2024--Proposals due June 25, 2023
New York
HIAA Majlis The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their…
ViewCall for Participation
CFP – Intersecting Photographies, Photography Network's 2022 Symposium – Due June 15
The second symposium of the Photography Network will be hosted jointly by Photography Network and Howard University in Washington, DC. Depending on circumstances, the event will either be hybrid (in-person and virtual) or fully virtual. We will update speakers and attendees by August 15. Visit site ViewHIAA Newsletters