These worksheets accompany Khamseen’s Topic, Term, Concept, and Project presentations. Each worksheet asks students to recall what they’ve learned in the video as well as to apply what they’ve learned to other materials and contexts. They can be adopted (and adapted) in the classroom, provided as take-home assignments, or used as memory-enhancing exercises by lifelong learners.
- Worksheets for Topic Presentations
- Worksheets for Term Presentations
- Worksheets for Concept Presentations
- Worksheets for Project Presentations
Latest Khamseen Worksheets for Topic Presentations (listed alphabetically):
“A Calligraphic Composition by Ismaʿil Jalayir in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Maryam Ekhtiar
“A Hot Wind Blows: Ecocritical Art in the Middle East” by Elizabeth Rauh
“A Late Ottoman Calendar Scroll: The Ruzname-i Darendi” by Elizabeth Rauh
“A Legacy of Female Power: Representations of Queen Humayun Shah from the Deccan’s Ahmadnagar Sultanate” by Namrata B. Kanchan
“A Miniature Qur’an and its Silver Case” by Christiane Gruber
“A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Miʿraj” by Christiane Gruber
“A Samanid Epigraphic Dish” by Marika Sardar
“A Sini Block-Printed Poster of Buraq: Amuletic Devotions in Modern Muslim China” by Christiane Gruber and Yueling Li
“A Woman’s Calligraphic Touch: A Sini Qur’an made in Beijing in 1050 AH / 1640 CE” by Yueling Li and Christiane Gruber
“Al-Aqmar Mosque” by Jennifer Pruitt
“Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from Iran and Syria” by Melanie Gibson
“Coffee and Coffeehouses in Ottoman and Safavid Lands, 1500-1800” by Farshid Emami
“Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)” by Melis Taner
“Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles” by Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
“Djingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu: Expression and Innovation at the Saharan Crossroads” by Ashley Miller
“Do-For-Self: The Visual Culture of the Notion of Islam” by Christiane Gruber
“Figural Silk in Safavid Iran” by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
“From the Miniature to the Monumental: The Negarestan Museum Painting of the Sons of Fath Ali Shah” by Layla S. Diba
“George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands” by Christiane Gruber
“Gülnuş Valide Sultan as an Architectural Patron” by Muzaffer Özgüleş
“Hajj Materials and Rites from Egypt” by Richard McGregor
“Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection” by Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg
“Images of the Virgin Mary in Mughal Art” by Mika Natif
“Islamic Arms and Armor: Dhu’l Fiqar, ‘Ali’s Miraculous Sword” by Rachel Parikh
“Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum” by Ashley Dimmig
“Islamic Gems and Jewels in The Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Courtney A. Stewart
“Ivories from the Islamic World” by Mariam Rosser-Owen
“İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World” by Yasemin Gencer
“Jahangir’s Dream” by Yael Rice
“Jewelry in Islamic Lands” by Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
“Madrasat al-Firdaws in Aleppo” by Yasser Tabbaa
“Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt” by Alex Dika Seggerman
“Manufactured Images: The Engravings of 19th-Century Arabic Periodicals” by Hala Auji
“Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis” by Kerr Houston
“Mihrab at the Great Mosque of Córdoba” by Glaire Anderson
“Mohamed Zakariya and the Practice of Calligraphy” by Nancy Micklewright
“Mongol Women’s Court Dress” by Eiren Shea
“Monsoon Winds and Ming Porcelains: Collecting and Displaying Chinese Ceramics at the Mughal Court” by Denise-Marie Teece
“Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern and Contemporary Case Studies” by Caroline “Olivia” Wolf
“On a Tinned Copper Bowl and Designs on Paper” by Linda Komaroff
“Ottoman Costume Portraits: Photographs in the Elbise-i Osmaniyye” by Erin Hyde Nolan
“Ottoman Illustrated Histories” by Emine Fetvacı
“Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion” by Rachel Parikh
“Persian Luster Tilework between the Field and Museum” by Keelan Overton
“Picture in Picture: Images of the Sultan in Balkan Princely Portraits” by Alison Terndrup
“Prayer Carpets” by Sumru Belger Krody
“Saba Taj’s Interstellar Uber // Negotiations with God: Queer Articulations in Contemporary Islamic Art” by Sascha Crasnow
“Sphero-Conical Vessels: Evidence from Baalbek (Lebanon)” by Valentina Vezzoli
“Swahili Mosques Between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean” by Stéphane Pradines
“The Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou: A Coastal Mosque in South China” by Sylvia Wu
“The Baths of al-Walid at Qusayr ‘Amra” by Alexander Brey
“The Birth Scene of Iskandar (Alexander the Great)” by Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım
“The Bobrinski Bucket” by Ruba Kana’an
“The British Appropriation of Mughal Pacchikari (Stone Inlay) in Agra, ca. 1840-1940” by Lola Cindrić
“The Depiction of European Women in Late Safavid Painting” by Negar Habibi
“The Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics” by Heba Mostafa
“The Gwalior Qur’an” by Marika Sardar
“The History of the Blazon in the Mamluk Period” by Filiz Çakır Phillip
“The Khanqah of Baybars al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310” by Bernard O’Kane
“The Nîshans of the Yezidis of Northern Iraq” by Eszter Spät
“The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque” by Ünver Rüstem
“The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey” by Emily Neumeier
“Touching Mecca and Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices” by Sabiha Göloğlu
“Tree of Pearls: Shajar al-Durr and her Architectural Patronage” by D. Fairchild Ruggles
“Two Islamic Amulets in the Aga Khan Museum” by Christiane Gruber
“Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture” by Patricia Blessing
Latest Khamseen Worksheets for Term Presentations (listed alphabetically):
“ʿAjab” by Vivek Gupta
“Arabesque” by Kerr Houston
“Buraq” by Sascha Crasnow
“Cemevi” by Angela Andersen
“Colophon” by Evyn Kropf
“Falnama” by Rachel Parikh
“Farangi” and “فرنگی (Farangi)” by Negar Habibi
“Frontispiece” by Marika Sardar
“Graffiti” by Ilkka Lindstedt
“Haft Rang” by Atefeh Mousavi
“Hammam” by Asa Eger
“Haram” by Harry Munt
“Hazar-baf” by Richard McClary
“Hilye” by Aslıhan Erkmen
“Jali” by Leslee Michelsen
“Kaʿba” by Simon O’Meara
“Khilʿa” by Meredyth Winter
“Kiswa” by Richard McGregor
“Kitabkhana” by Yael Rice
“Külliye” by Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu
“Loom” by Amanda Phillips
“Lustreware” by Mariam Rosser-Owen
“Mahmal” by Richard McGregor
“Masjid” by Christiane Gruber
“Mawlid” by Marion Katz
“Mighfar” by Filiz Çakır Phillip
“Mihrab” by Yasemin Gencer
“Mina’i” by Richard Piran McClary
“Minaret” by Mira Xenia Schwerda
“Munya” by Glaire Anderson
“Muqarnas” by Stephennie Mulder
“Muthanna” by Esra Akın-Kıvanç
“Pishtaq” by Leslee Michelsen
“Qalam” by Selin Ünlüönen
“Qibla” by Hala Auji
“Qubba” by Heba Mostafa
“Qur’an” by Walid Saleh
“Riwaq” by Theodore Van Loan
“Shahnameh” by Roxana Zenhari
“Shajara” by Evrim Binbaş
“Silk” by Amanda Phillips
“Simurgh” by Mika Natif
“Squinch and Pendentive” by Patricia Blessing
“Suzani” by Carol Bier
“Talisman” by Rachel Parikh
“Tamgha” by Filiz Çakır Phillip
“Tiraz” by Meredyth Winter
“Toron” by Michelle Apostos
“Tughra” by Ünver Rüstem
“Turban” by Esther Voswinckel Filiz
“Velvet” by Amanda Phillips
“Zawiya” by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
Latest Khamseen Worksheets for Concept Presentations:
“Orientalism” by Alex Dika Seggerman
Latest Khamseen Worksheets for Project Presentations (listed alphabetically):
“A Miniature Qur’an and its Silver Case” by Christiane Gruber
“Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles” by Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
“Ivories from the Islamic World” by Mariam Rosser-Owen
“Jami‘ al-Tawarikh: Images of the Prophet” by Christiane Gruber
“Jami‘ al-Tawarikh: Provenance” by Eleanor Lucy Deacon
“Lustreware” by Mariam Rosser-Owen
“On a Tinned Copper Bowl and Designs on Paper” by Linda Komaroff
“The Bryce Miniature Qur’an and Its Travels Across the Globe” by Mira Xenia Schwerda
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