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 Humanities. The presentations cover a broad range of topics and materials; they also are close-captioned, approximately 10-15 minutes long, and accompanied by recommended resources for further reading.
- 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
- The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya
- Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt
- The Gwalior Qur’an
- A Samanid Epigraphic Dish
- Al-Aqmar Mosque
- The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey
- Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern and Contemporary Case Studies
- Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum
- Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents)
- The Bobrinski Bucket
- Ottoman Illustrated Histories
- The Baths of al-Walid at Qusayr ‘Amra
- Touching Mecca and Medina: The Dalā’il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices
- The Khanqah of Baybars al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310
- İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World
- Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion
- Islamic Arms and Armor: Dhu’l Fiqar, ʿAli’s Miraculous Sword
- Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection
- Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture
- George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands
- A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad’s Miʿraj
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