Sandra Williams
This document provides a list of Khamseen short-form presentations organized in roughly chronological fashion as well as research tools and collection overviews provided by museums, libraries, and other repositories. It is a living document and therefore will become more comprehensive as Khamseen continues to develop more presentations. Please check back for regular updates.
Period of c. 650 – c.1050
The Umayyads
- Williams, Elizabeth Dospěl. “Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles”
- Mostafa, Heba. “The Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics”
- Brey, Alexander. “The Baths of Al-Walid at Qusayr ‘Amra”
The Abbasids
The Umayyads of Spain
- Anderson, Glaire. “The Mihrab of the Great Mosque of Córdoba”
The Samanids
- Sardar, Marika. “A Samanid Epigraphic Dish”
Period of c. 1050 – c. 1450
- Pradines, Stéphane. “Swahili Mosques Between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean”
- Vezzoli, Valentina. “Sphero-Conical Vessels: Evidence from Baalbek (Lebanon)”
- Wu, Sylvia. “The Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou: A Coastal Mosque in South China”
The Fatimids
- Pruitt, Jennifer. “Al-Aqmar Mosque”
Seljuks of Iran
Almoravids and Almohads
Seljuqs of Rum
The Ghurids
- Kana’an, Ruba. “The Bobrinski Bucket”
The Ilkhanids
The Nasrids
The Mamluks
- O’Kane, Bernard. “The Khanqah of Baybars al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310”
The Timurids
- Komaroff, Linda. “On a Tinned Copper Bowl and Designs on Paper”
Period of c. 1450 – c. 1800
- Parikh, Rachel. “Islamic Arms and Armor: Dhu’l Fiqar, ʿAli’s Miraculous Sword”
- Blessing, Patricia. “Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture”
The Safavids
- Emami, Farshid. “Coffee and Coffeehouses in Ottoman and Safavid Lands, 1500-1800″
- Gruber, Christiane. “A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Miʿraj“
- Habibi, Negar. “The Depiction of European Women in Late Safavid Paintings”
- Yoltar-Yıldırım, Ayşin. “The Birth Scene of Iskandar (Alexander the Great)”
The Mughals and Late Medieval South Asia
- Parikh, Rachel. “Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion“
- Rice, Yael. “Jahangir’s Dream”
- Sardar, Marika. “The Gwalior Qur’an”
- Teece, Denise-Marie. “Monsoon Winds and Ming Porcelains: Collecting and Displaying Chinese Ceramics at the Mughal Court”
The Ottomans
- Fetvacı, Emine. “Ottoman Illustrated Histories”
- Göloğlu, Sabiha. “Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices”
- Gencer, Yasemin. “İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World”
- Neumeier, Emily. “The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey”
- McGregor, Richard. “Hajj Materials and Rites from Egypt“
- Rüstem, Ünver. “The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque”
- Taner, Melis. “Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)”
The Qajars
- Diba, Layla. “From the Miniature to the Monumental: The Negarestan Museum Painting of the Sons of Fath Ali Shah“
- Ekhtiar, Maryam. “A Calligraphic Composition by Ismaʿil Jalayir in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art”
Period of c. 1800 – present
- Auji, Hala. “Manufactured Images: The Engravings of 19th-Century Arabic Periodicals“
- Krody, Sumru Belger. “Prayer Carpets”
- Spät, Eszter. “The Nîshans of the Yezidis of Northern Iraq”
- Nolan, Erin Hyde. “Ottoman Costume Portraits: Photographs in the Elbise-i Osmaniyye”
Modern and Contemporary Art
- Seggerman, Alex Dika. “Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt”
- Wolf, Caroline “Olivia.” “Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern and Contemporary Case Studies”
- Bowker, Sam. “The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya”
- Rauh, Elizabeth. “A Hot Wind Blows: Ecocritical Art in the Middle East”
- Gruber, Christiane. “George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands”
- Crasnow, Sascha. “Saba Taj’s Interstellar Uber // Negotiations with God: Queer Articulations in Contemporary Islamic Art”
- Houston, Kerr. “Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis“
Collecting and Collections
- Dimmig, Ashley. “Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum”
- Overton, Keelan. “Persian Luster Tilework between the Field and Museum”
- Steinberg, Amanda Hannoosh. “Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection”
Citation:
Sandra Williams, “Living Survey: Overview of Khamseen Topic Presentations,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, first published 20 October 2020.