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Regionality: Looking for the Local in the Arts of Islam
Metalwork Bag 14th century Mosul, Iraq The Courtauld Gallery, O.1966.GP.209

HIAA Biennial Symposium

Regionality: Looking for the Local in the Arts of Islam

The Courtauld Institute of Art
London
10.20-10.20.16


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The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association celebrates the European ‘roots’ of the study of the arts that fall under the cultural umbrella of Islam, and the formation of the important early collections and exhibitions that launched its scholarship. Those early, mostly connoisseurial categories of regional types and styles – the “Moresque”, Persian painting, Turkish tiles, Indian decorative arts – formed the foundations from which universalizing narratives of “Islamic” arts emerged, especially in the period after the Second World War. Some fifty years later, we are witnessing a resurgence of the study of regional specificities, augmented with deeper research into the diverse facets of any given locality or artistic form, and a greater commitment to the linguistic and cultural particularities that shaped the arts, architecture and archaeology in a specific locale. Rigorous application of trans-disciplinary research strategies have contributed to the deepening of our understanding of the arts of Islam in local terms, and have allowed us to embrace broader historical trajectories to include the modern and contemporary in our field.

10.20.16

18:15-18:30

Welcome Remarks: Deborah Swallow, Professor and Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Sheila Canby, HIAA president

18:30-19:30

Keynote

Images Incomplete: Prescriptive Piety as Material Practice in Islamic Art

Finbarr Barry Flood
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

19:30-20:30

Drinks reception

10.21.16

10:00-12:00

Workshop

Object viewing sessions at the British Museum, British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum


12:00-14:00

Lunch break and return to The Courtauld

14:00-15:30

Panel

Responses to the Antique World in Islam

Simon O’Meara
Chair

Nadia Ali
Early Islamic Art, Local Micro-Identities and Everyday Religiosity in the pre-Modern Syrian Countryside

Lindsay Allen
Contested Ruins:The Stratigraphy of Islamic Marginalia at Takht-i Jamshid/Persepolis

Lev Arie Kapitaikin
A Sense of Place and Grace: The Great ‘Zitouna’ Mosque of Tunis, a Font of Tunisian Architecture

Antony Eastmond
Discussant

15:30-16:00

Tea & Coffee

04:00-17:30

Panel

Locality of Style in Turco-Persian Manuscripts

Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay
Chair

Cailah Jackson
The Illuminations of Mukhlis ibn ‘Abdullah al-Hindi: A Local Style of Late Thirteenth-Century Konya

Alya Karame
The Illumination ofthe Imperial Ghaznavid Qur’ans: A Distinct Local Style

Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp
Heroes of Legend, Heroes of History: Militant Manuscripts of the Shaybanid Uzbeks in Transoxiana

Elaine Wright
Discussant

18:00-19:00

Keynote

'Fings ain’t wot they oughto be’: Making Things & the Art History of Early & Medieval Islamic Societies

Jeremy Johns
Director of the Khalili Research Centre; Professor of the Art & Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean; Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University

19:00-20:00

Drinks Reception

10.22.16

09:30-11:00

Panel

State Control of City and Landscape

Julia Gonnella
Chair

Stéphane Pradines
Regional Patterns in Fatimid Military Architecture

Paul Wordsworth
Styling the saray: Central Asian Traditions in Early Seljuq Architectural Grammar

Abbey Stockstill
Under the Atlas: Visibility and Materiality in the Landscape of Almohad Marrakesh

Scott Redford
Discussant

11:00-11:30

Tea & Coffee

11:30-13:00

Panel

Local/Translocal Dialogues through the Arts of the Book

Anna Contadini
Chair

Jake Benson
The Qit’at-i Khushkhatt Album and Mir Muhammad Tahir

Keelan Overton
Between Herat, Bijapur and Mysore: The Timurid Qur’an of Abu Sa‘id

Melis Taner
An Illustrated Genealogy Between the Ottomans and Safavids

Ünver Rüstem
Discussant

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Panel

Mediated Identities in Early Modern South Asian Architecture

Ebba Koch
Chair

Munazzah Akhtar
Identity in Death: Expression of Identities in Samma Monuments of Makli Necropolis at Thatta

Fatima Quraishi
Banna’i, Chinoiserie and Carved Sandstone:Mediating Between East and West in Early Modern Sindh

Peyvand Firouzeh
Scribing and Inscribing for the Sufis: Calligraphy, Sufism,and Dynastic Identity in Fifteenth-Century Bidar

D. Fairchild Ruggles
Discussant

16:00-16:30

Tea & Coffee

16:30-18:00

Panel

The Specificities of Modernity

Ruba Kana’an
Chair

Margaret Graves
Markets, Makers and Anxious Administrators: Ceramics and Craft Fidelity in Early Twentieth-Century Morocco

Holly Shaffer
‘The Sky is so Profusely Illuminated’

Alex Dika Seggerman
What is Egyptian Modernism?

Mercedes Volait
Discussant

18:00-18:15

Short break

18:15-19:00

Keynote

Modernism as (a)Politics: Religious Minorities and the Discourse on Architecture in Pahlavi Iran

Talinn Grigor
Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis

19:00-19:30

Panel

Celebrating Prof. Doris Behrens-Abouseif


19:30-21:00

Drinks and Tapas Reception at Fernandes & Wells, Somerset House

10.23.16

10:00-15:00

Workshop

Special visit to the Sarikhani Collection or self-organized visit to Power and protection: Islamic art and the supernatural, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017


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