Qibla

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Qibla

Hala Auji

Related Terms:

  • Salah/Salawat (prayers)
  • Astrolabe (astronomical instrument)

Related Khamseen Videos:

Sumru Belger Krody, “Prayer Carpets,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 11 May 2021.

References:

Frishman, Martin and Hasan-Uddin Khan. The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity. London: Thames & Hudson, 1994. 

King, David A. World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca. Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Pinto, Karen C. Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 2016.

Wensinck, A.J. and D. A. King. “Ḳibla.” In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, and W.P. Heinrichs. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Citation:

Hala Auji, “Qibla,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 5 October 2021.

Hala Auji is Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond; she also co-chairs the Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. Her research explores transcultural modernity, print culture, and photography in eastern Mediterranean communities during the long nineteenth century. With a background in graphic design, criticism, and art history, she examines intersections between art, design history, and comparative literature, focusing on Islamic and Middle Eastern art. She is the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) and co-editor of The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2023). Her current book project investigates printed portraiture in Ottoman provincial cities.