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Assistant Editor at IJIA
Open call for Assistant Editor at IJIA (voluntary position)
Founded in 2012, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing…
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HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures of the Eighteenth Century
Call for Panel Proposals (deadline September 1, 2022)
The Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA) announce an open call for panel proposals for our quinquennial conference, to be held in Boston from October 12–15, 2023. ViewHIAA Members-Only Content
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Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Although the position will remain posted until filled, applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by end of day on July 8, 2022.
Job Function: Library Location: USA - MA - Cambridge Job Code: 386057 Library Professional
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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 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).
Friday, May 6, 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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Call for Papers
SAH 2023 Montréal: “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Montréal)”
Call for PapersSociety of Architectural Historians
2023 Annual International Conference
April 12–16 in Montréal, Canada
September 20–22 Virtual View
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Call for Participation
HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by June 07, 2022
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The HIAA board is now gathering information to compile in the summer edition of the newsletter (past editions of the newsletter are available on the HIAA website). We would love to hear from members…
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