Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

Alexander Brey (Wellesley College), Ruins, Reuse, and Memory in Early Islamic Architecture. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. While the earliest Arabic chronicles tend to mention...

Alya Karame (AKPIA Fellow; Orient-Institut Beirut and Collège de France), The Sulayhid Qur’an: Stories of Connections and Belonging of a Short-Lived Dynasty.

A two-day symposium celebrating the teaching and research of Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, with presentations by her colleagues and former students. Sponsored by the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian...

Susana Calvo Capilla (AKPIA Fellow; Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Islamic Architecture for Wisdom: Looking Back on the Classical Legacy.

D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a Thirteenth-Century Sultan-Queen: Shajar al-Durr of Egypt. Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on...

Olga Bush (Vassar College), The Textility of the Alhambra.

Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University), Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register.

Alain Fouad George (University of Oxford), On Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting...

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.