Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

Jennifer Pruitt (University of Wisconsin Madison), Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

Gulfishan Khan (Aligahr Muslim University), Shahjahanbad: The City of Shah Jahan as Described in Pādshāhnāma. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

Nadia Ali (Université Aix-Marseille), 'His Eyes Were Aware of the Pointed Corners of His Eyes': Reflections on the Gaze in Umayyad Painting. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

Margaret Graves (University of Indiana), The Intellect of the Hand: Making and Thinking the Medieval Islamic Art of the Object. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies. This event will...

Nadia Ali (New York University Center for Material Histories), Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics. CANCELLED

Jochen Sokoly (Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar), Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates.

Ann Shafer (AKPIA Associate), T owards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra.

Sunil Kumar (Delhi University), Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Harvard...

Sunil Kumar (Delhi University), The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Harvard Committee on Inner...

Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisans.