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New Horizons in Islamic Art History

Session will present: On location
Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Historians of Islamic Art Association
Each year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) organizes a Majlis -- an Arabic term meaning "gathering" -- bringing together up-and-coming scholars in the field of Islamic art to share the latest findings of their research. Presented as a sponsored panel during the College Art Association's annual conference, this year's symposium features presentations by Tuğrul Acar, Selin Aran, Xinyu Liang, and Sanja Savić on topics ranging from talismanic shirts to photographs from 19th-century Egypt.

Keywords:
Topics: Islamic
Geographic Area: West Asia
Topics: Art History
Time Period: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century
Time Period: Eighteenth Century to Present

Chair:
Emily Neumeier, Historians of Islamic Art Association

Historical Perception and Artistic Agency in the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh: A Transcultural Perspective
Ms. Xinyu Liang, Rice University
Photographing Antiquity, Capturing Identity: The 1890 Nile Voyage of Khedive Tewfik
Selin Aran, Rutgers University New Brunswick
Talismanic Shirts as a Text, Textile, and Technology: Recovering Tactile Eloquence of the Early Modern Islamic World
Sanja Savic, Columbia University
Mural Paintings and Suburban Landscape Around the Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Mevlevi Lodges in the Fifteenth Century
Tugrul Acar, Harvard University
Abstract Submissions Closed
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