Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 08.28.18–01.27.19

  Exhibition

  Emperors & Jewels: Treasures of the Indian Courts from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

• 09.01–12.23.18

  Exhibition

  A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia

  Textile Museum, George Washington University

  Washington, DC

• 09.07.18–01.27.19

  Exhibition

  Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World

  Cincinnati Art Museum

  Ohio

• 09.08.18–03.03.19

  Exhibition

  Splendour and Bliss: Arts from the Islamic World

  Gemeente Museum

  The Hague

• 09.22.18–01.13.19

  Exhibition

  Armenia!

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  New York

• 09.22.18–01.06.19

  Exhibition

  Contemporary Muslim Fashions

  de Young Museum

  San Francisco

• 09.22.18–02.10.19

  Exhibition

  Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-century Iran

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

• 10.13.18–01.13.19

  Exhibition

  Syria, Then and Now: Stories from Refugees a Century Apart

  Brooklyn Museum

  New York

• 10.19.18–01.06.19

  Exhibition

  The Fabric of India

  Cincinnati Art Museum

  Ohio

• 10.22.18–03.01.19

  Exhibition

  In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding, ca. 1575-1890

  Butler Library, Columbia University

  New York

• 10.29.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Clouds and Gold Dust: Decorated Papers from the Ettinghausen Collection

  The Met Fifth Avenue

  New York

• 11.02.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  Texas

• 11.14.18

  Lecture

  Seif El Rashidi, Pop-Up Palaces: A Journey through 1,000 years of Egypt's Ceremonial Tent-making Tradition

  Leighton House Museum

  London

  6:30 pm

• 11.14.18

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Adam Bursi, Matters of Taste: Sensory Experience within Early Islamic Pilgrimage

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 11.15–11.16.18

  Conference

  al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts

  Ilmi Etudler Dernegi

  Üsküdar, Istanbul

• 11.15.18

  Lecture

  York Islamic Art Circle: Firuza Melville, Contemporary Visual Interpretations of Medieval literature

  Berrick Saul Building

  University of York

  6:30 pm

• 11.18.18

  Lecture

  Talinn Grigor, Of Historicity and Historical (Un)Truth in Contemporary Iranian Art

  Aga Khan Musuem

  Toronto

  1:00 pm

• 11.22.18

  Lecture

  Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art: Lale Uluç, Illustrated Copies of the Works of ‘Ali Shir Nava’i in Istanbul Libraries

  Pembroke College

  Cambridge

  5:30 pm

• 11.23.18–02.13.19

  Exhibition

  Syria Matters

  Museum of Islamic Art

  Doha

• 11.28.18

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Clare Davies, Siah Armanjani: Everyday Magic in Iranian Modern Art

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 12.05.18

  Lecture

  Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture Under the Mamluks

  Khalili Lecture Theatre

  SOAS, University of London

  7:00 pm

• 12.05.18

  Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

  SOAS

  London

• 12.06.18

  Lecture

  Bita Pourvash, Persian Art in Canada: Early Collections and Exhibitions

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

  1:00 pm

• 12.07.18

  Workshop

  Cities 2: Zafar--Material History of a Buried South Arabian City on the Eve of Islam

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  9:00 am

• 02.07.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Gül Kale, Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 03.14.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Yves Porter, The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 04.04.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Ridha Moumni, The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

Past events

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• Lecture

  Seif El Rashidi, Pop-Up Palaces: A Journey through 1,000 years of Egypt's Ceremonial Tent-making Tradition

  Leighton House Museum

  London

  6:30 pm

  11.14.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Adam Bursi, Matters of Taste: Sensory Experience within Early Islamic Pilgrimage

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  11.14.18

• Lecture

  Nadhra Shahbaz Khan, Ornate Interiors and Spectacular Interiors: Lahore Fort and Metaphors of Kingship

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  London

  7:00 pm

  11.08.18

• Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  11.08.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Will Kwiatkowski, Royal Writing: The Architectural Inscriptions of the Bahmani Sultanate

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  11.08.18

• Lecture

  Kaveh Askari, Photography, Cinema, and Royal Painting in Qajar Iran

  Aga Khan Musuem

  Toronto

  1:00 pm

  11.08.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Ittai Weinryb, Votive Bodies: Wax and Beyond in Medieval Mediterranean Devotional Practices

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  11.07.18

• Special Event

  Transforming Traditions: Curator's Tour with Ulrike al-Khamis

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

  6:30 pm

  11.06.18

• Special Event

  George Michell In Conversation with Helen Philon: The Islamic Architecture Of The Deccan

  Royal Asiatic Society

  London

  6:30 pm

  11.02.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Hiba Abid, Remembering Medina and Invoking the Prophet Through the Images of the Dala'il al-Khayrat

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  10.31.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Imran bin Tajudeen, Transcultural Agency in Javanese Mosques

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  10.30.18

• Lecture

  York Islamic Art Circle: Ladan Akbarnia, The Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World: New Perspectives

  University of York

  York

  6:30 pm

  10.25.18