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Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present
edited by Stéphane Pradines, and Farouk Topan
The book explores the role of Islam in forming and transforming interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective ViewBook
Cross Cultural Artistic Encounters in the Eastern Mediterranean
Edited by Zeren Tanındı
A PIMo collection of essays around the exhibition titled “Şeyh Hamdullah on the 500th Anniversary of His Death” at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul. Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, 2022.
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L'art du livre turc. Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2022
Zeren Tanındı
This book provides a comprehensive approach to the arts of the book in the Ottoman Empire, examining bindings, illumination, illustration and calligraphy. ViewRecorded Lecture
Prof. Zeren Tanındı's 2022 Léopold Delisle Lectures at the Bibliothéque Nationale de France
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Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar
by Stéphane Pradines
This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries. ViewBook
The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries
Edited by Simon Rettig and Sana Mirza
Open Access publication! ViewJournal
Muqarnas 39
Muqarnas 39 (Nov 2022; Gülru Necipoğlu and Maria Metzler, eds.)
Published by Brill, Muqarnas (https://brill.com/display/serial/MUQ?rskey=zVI5Jw&result=2) is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)Defining the Field
edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Daniel E. Coslett, UChicago, 2022
A comprehensive introduction for scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. Visit site ViewBook
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art
edited by Onur Öztürk, Xenia Gazi and Sam Bowker, and forward written by Wendy Shaw
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes. ViewBook
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 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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