Khamseen’s Topic presentations are created by a group of international experts in Islamic studies, art, architecture, and visual culture as well as scholars specializing in allied fields within the arts and humanities. These talks cover a broad range of topics and materials, are approximately 10-20 minutes long, close-captioned, and accompanied by pedagogical worksheets and recommended resources for further reading. They also can be found grouped together in subject-specific modules under Themes.
Figural Silk in Safavid Iran
Jewelry in Islamic Lands
A Miniature Qur’an and its Silver Case
Ceramic Breastfeeding Figures from Iran and Syria
Images of the Virgin Mary in Mughal Art
Madrasat al-Firdaws in Aleppo
Mongol Women’s Court Dress
Tree of Pearls: Shajar al-Durr and her Architectural Patronage
Djingareyber Mosque of Timbuktu: Expression and Innovation at the Saharan Crossroads
The History of the Blazon in the Mamluk Period
A Legacy of Female Power: Representations of Queen Humayun Shah from the Deccan’s Ahmadnagar Sultanate
Mohamed Zakariya and the Practice of Calligraphy
Picture in Picture: Images of the Sultan in Balkan Princely Portraits
Ivories from Islamic Spain
“Do-For-Self”: The Visual Culture of the Nation of Islam
Ottoman Costume Portraits: Photographs in the Elbise-i Osmaniyye
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
A Calligraphic Composition by Ismaʿil Jalayir
The Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou: A Coastal Mosque in South China
Persian Luster Tilework
Monsoon Winds and Ming Porcelains
Two Islamic Amulets in the Aga Khan Museum
On a Tinned Copper Bowl and Designs on Paper
Sphero-Conical Vessels
Swahili Mosques Between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean
Saba Taj’s Interstellar Uber // Negotiations with God
The Nîshans of the Yezidis of Northern Iraq
Prayer Carpets
The Depiction of European Women in Late Safavid Paintings
Hajj Materials and Rites from Egypt
Manufactured Images: The Engravings of 19th-Century Arabic Periodicals
The Birth Scene of Iskandar (Alexander the Great)
Coffee and Coffeehouses in Ottoman and Safavid Lands, 1500-1800
From the Miniature to the Monumental: The Negarestan Museum Painting of the Sons of Fath Ali Shah
A Hot Wind Blows: Ecocritical Art in the Middle East
Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles
Mihrab at the Great Mosque of Córdoba
Jahangir’s Dream
The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque
The Dome of the Rock: Original Mosaics
A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Miʿraj
George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands
Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection
Islamic Arms and Armor: Dhu’l Fiqar, ʿAli’s Miraculous Sword
Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion
İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
The Khanqah of Baybars al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
Touching Mecca and Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
The Baths of al-Walid at Qusayr ‘Amra
Ottoman Illustrated Histories
The Bobrinski Bucket
Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern and Contemporary Case Studies
The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
Al-Aqmar Mosque
A Samanid Epigraphic Dish
The Gwalior Qur’an
Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt
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