Looking Widely, Looking Closely

Keynote

Wives, Concubines, Daughters and Mothers: The Multiple Paths to Female Patronage of Visual Arts

Priscilla Soucek

John L. Loeb Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Welcome reception, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

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PANEL 1: Formation and Transformation in Umayyad Art

Finbarr Barry Flood

Chair

Nadia Ali

The South Arabian Component of Umayyad Royal Iconography

Donald Whitcomb

Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham? Changing Perceptions of a Palestinian Monument

Theodore van Loan

Umar's Bargain: Skirting Litholatry at the Dome of the Rock

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PANEL 2: Form and Meaning in Arabic, Persian and Indian Manuscripts

Massumeh Farhad

Chair

Jaclynne J. Kerner

Art and Artifice in the Illustrated Herbal of al-Ghafiqi

Eloise Brac de la Perriere

A Set of Unexplored Manuscripts: Bihari Writing Qur'ans in Sultanate India

Ayse Pinar Gokpinar

The Concept of Time and Space: Understanding Temporality in the Representations of the Topkapi Persian Falnama

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PANEL 3: On Paper, Poetry, and Painting

Eleanor Sims

Chair

Jake Benson

Naqsh Bar Ab: Safavid Marbled Papers of the Late 16th to Early 17th century

Fateme Montazeri

Sermon in the Mosque or Socio-Religious Critique?: Analysis of a Safavid Illustration of a Hafez Poem

Emily Neumeier

An Anatolian Mont Sainte-Victoire: Approaching Modern Turkish Painting

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PANEL 4: Medieval Identities and Beyond

Eva R. Hoffman

Chair

Amanda Luyster and Mika Natif

Kalila Two Ways: East and West

Robert Ousterhout and D. Fairchild Ruggles

Islamic Monuments and National Patrimony in Modern Spain

Reception at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

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PANEL 5: From Mosques to Mosaic and Mirrors: Islamic Architecture and its Decoration

Sheila Blair

Chair

Ruba Kana’an

The Friday Mosque Revisited: the Meaning, Function, and Evolution of an Architectural Paradigm

Chanchal Dadlani

Orthodoxy and Aesthetics in Mughal Architecture: The Moti Masjid of ‘Alamgir I’

Sophia Shafi

Every Torn Piece of My Heart Becomes a Green Meadow: The History and Religious Function of ‘Aineh-Kari’ in Persianate Architecture

Carol Bier

Overlapping Decagons on the Iranian Plateau: History of Architecture and the History of Mathematics

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PANEL 6: Relocating History: Interventions of Islamic Architecture and Decoration in England, Greece and Cairo

Nebahat Avcioglu

Chair

Melanie Gibson

Colouring the Surface: A Taste for Tiles in English Domestic Architecture, 1850-1920

George Manginis

Iznik in Athens: Ottoman-Style Tile Revetments on Inter-War Public Buildings in Greece

Anna McSweeney

The Afterlife of the Alhambra

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PANEL 7: Reconstructing Meaning Through Historiography and Museology

Navina Haidar

Chair

Mercedes Volait

Monument or Ornament? Early French Architectural Histories of Islamic Buildings in Egypt

Alyson Wharton

The Paradigm of a Favoured Community and Armenians in the History of Islamic Architecture

Keelan Overton

Patterns of Revivalism: The Safavid/Pahlavi Case Study through a Pan-Islamic Lens

Mirjam Shatanawi

Indonesian Islamic Art: The Historiography of a Neglected Heritage

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PANEL 8: Objectifying the Islamic Object: From Ottoman Silk Flags to Twelfth-century Minbars to a Thirteenth-century Brass Tray with Processional Figures

Linda Komaroff

Chair

Bernard O’Kane

A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids

Hana Taragan

Figures in Procession: Thoughts on a Tray Stand from Doha, Qatar

Barbara Karl

Ottoman Silk Flags as Objects of Propaganda in the Conflict Between Habsburgs and Ottomans during the 17th and early 18th centuries