Mighfar

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Mighfar

Filiz Çakır Phillip

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References:

Aanavi, Don. “Devotional Writing: ‘Pseudo Inscriptions’ in Islamic Art,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 26/9 (1968), 353–358.

Alexander, David. “Two Aspects of Islamic Arms and Armour,” Metropolitan Museums Journal 18 (1983), 97–109.

Alexander, David et al. Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015.

Çakır Phillip, Filiz. “Schutzwaffen der Aqqoyunlu,” Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresdener Kunstblaetter, 4 (2011), 241–246.

Çakır Phillip, Filiz. Iranische Hieb-, Stich- und Schutzwaffen des 15. – 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Sammlungen des Museums für Islamische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und des Deutschen Historischen Museums (Zeughaus) in Berlin. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.

Çakır Phillip, Filiz. “Weaponry of Iran in the 15th and 16th centuries: A Helmet and a Spearhead in the David Collection,” Journal of the David Collection 5 (2021), 80–95.

Mayer, Leo Aryeh. “Saracenic Arms and Armor,” Ars Islamica 10 (1943), 1–12.

Citation:

Filiz Çakır Phillip, “Mighfar,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 21 May 2024.

Filiz Çakır Phillip holds a Dr. Phil. from the Institute of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin and is an independent curator and scholar of Islamic Art History. She worked as curator at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2013-2022) and at the Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin (2006-2012). She has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently: Lustre and Luxe from Islamic Spain: Liquid Frontiers and Entangled Worlds (2023) and Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads (2021–2023) with Prof. Suzanne Conklin Akbari. She has authored several books, including Syrian Living: Medieval to Modern (2022) with Dr. Anke Scharrahs. Çakır Phillip also serves as a member of the Professional Development Committee of the Renaissance Society of America and as a board member of the Association of Art Museum Curators & AAMC Foundation in New York.