Looking Widely, Looking Closely

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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