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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
Edited by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman
The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style,…
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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…
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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.
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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).
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria
Richard J.A. McGregor
Islam and the Devotional Object offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of…
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The Journeys of Kalila and Dimna: Itineraries of Fables in the Arts and Literature of the Islamic World
Editors: Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Aïda El Khiari, and Annie Vernay-Nouri
Kalīla wa-Dimna is one of the best-known texts of medieval Arabic literature and counts among the most illustrated works in the Islamic world. The extent of the corpus and its journey through the ages…
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HIAA Writing Groups
HIAA Writing Groups
The HIAA board is pleased to announce a new matching service that will connect members seeking peer-review. Participants in HIAA Writing Groups will share, read, discuss, and gain productive feedback on their works in progress. ViewPodcast
Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr
An Interview with D. Fairchild Ruggles
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his concubine, was manumitted, became his wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband's death. Shajar al-Durr used her wealth and power to add a tomb to his urban madrasa; with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. A highly unusual case of a Muslim woman authorized to rule in her own name, her reign ended after only three months when she was forced to share her governance with an army general and for political expediency to marry him.
Despite the fact that Shajar al-Durr's story ends tragically with her assassination and hasty burial, her deeds in her lifetime offer a stark alternative to the continued belief that women in the medieval period were unseen, anonymous, and inconsequential in a world that belonged to men. D. Fairchild Ruggles' Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr (Oxford UP, 2020)--the first ever in English--places the rise and fall of the sultan-queen in the wider context of the cultural and architectural development of Cairo, the city that still holds one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic monuments in the world.
Tanja Tolar is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
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