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Historians of Islamic Art Third Biennial Symposium: Looking Widely, Looking Closely
Recorded October 18–20, 2012
Part One of Twenty-Six
Sheila Canby and Renata Holod open the Historians of Islamic Art Association's third biennial symposium.
Al-Andalus: Power and Culture in the Convivencia (01:04:22) 2 views
True Colors: The Damascus Room (00:02:46) 317 views
Conserving the Emperor's Carpet (00:08:32) 2837 views
The Arts of the Book (00:29:25) 35 views
Islamic Textiles and Carpets from the Met's Collection (00:23:23) 42 views
Revealing the Original (00:25:21) 31 views
Conserving Islamic Art: Panel Discussion (00:09:20) 18 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Overlapping Decagons on the Iranian Plateau: History of Architecture and the History of Mathematics (00:25:19) 65 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: "Every Torn Piece of My Heart Becomes a Green Meadow”: The History and Religious Function of Aineh-Kari in Persianate Architecture (00:22:50) 11 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: The Friday Mosque Revisited: the Meaning, Function, and Evolution of an Architectural Paradigm (00:31:01) 12 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: The Afterlife of the Alhambra (00:31:07) 29 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Iznik in Athens: Ottoman-style Tile Revetments on inter-war Public Buildings in Greece (00:19:06) 136 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Colouring the surface: A Taste for tiles in English Domestic Architecture, 1850–1920 (00:21:21) 23 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: An Anatolian Mont Sainte-Victoire: Approaching Modern Turkish Painting (00:27:29) 100 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Sermon in the Mosque or Socio-Religious Critique? (00:27:02) 25 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Naqsh Bar Āb: Safavid Marbled Papers of the Late 16th to Early 17th centuries (00:28:05) 29 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: From Hagia Sophia to Ayasofya: Architecture and the Persistence of Memory (00:35:58) 80 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Islamic Monuments and National Patrimony in Modern Spain (00:20:48) 30 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Kalila Two Ways: East and West (00:58:10) 29 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Monument or Ornament? Early French architectural histories of Islamic buildings in Egypt (1850s–1870s) (00:25:39) 20 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Indonesia and Islamic Art: The Historiography of a Neglected Heritage (00:33:13) 17 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Patterns of Revivalism: The Safavid/Pahlavi Case Study through a Pan-Islamic Lens (00:26:36) 17 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: The Paradigm of a Favoured Community and Armenians in the History of Islamic Architecture (00:19:17) 14 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Ottoman silk flags as Objects of Propaganda (00:23:01) 17 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: A Tale of Two Minbars: Woodwork in Egypt and Syria on the Eve of the Ayyubids (00:22:09) 15 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Umar's Bargain: Skirting Litholatry at the Dome of the Rock (00:30:12) 81 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham? Changing Perceptions of a Palestinian Monument (00:20:56) 48 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: The South Arabian Component of Umayyad Royal Iconography (00:29:06) 118 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: The Concept of Time and Space: Understanding Temporality in the Representations of the Topkapı Persian Falnama (00:23:11) 38 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: A Set of Unexplored Manuscripts: Bihari Writing Korans in Sultanate India (00:27:27) 21 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Art and Artifice in the Illustrated Herbal of al-Ghāfiqī (00:27:23) 31 views
Looking Widely, Looking Closely Symposium: Keynote Address (00:26:08) 99 views
Installing the New Islamic Galleries (00:02:57) 191 views
Powerful Women: Painting and Building in Persiante Culture (00:51:19) 116 views
Collecting Turkmen Jewelry: The Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection (00:03:22) 1627 views
Conserving the Damascus Room (00:03:14) 1069 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 3 (02:15:02) 44 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 2 (01:30:57) 80 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 1 (02:22:06) 271 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 4 (02:02:33) 53 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 6 (02:02:50) 22 views
Discoveries Symposium Part 5 (01:59:34) 50 views
People of the Book: Muslims, Jews, and Christians (01:26:15) 110 views
Games of the Ancient World (02:15:29) 195 views
Powerless Before Love—Arabic And Persian Poetic Traditions (01:15:07) 91 views
The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View (00:57:07) 97 views
The Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series: Rulers in Times of Transition (02:56:42) 71 views
Women and the Muslim World—Patrons, Artists, Muses, and Instigators (01:27:15) 69 views
Thematic Displays and Interconnections in the Islamic Art Galleries (01:20:37) 140 views
Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture: Displaying the Self in Early Modern Isfahan (00:51:41) 24 views
Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture: A Tale of Two Quintets: Illustrations to the Khamsas of Nizami and Amir Khusrau (01:05:40) 14 views
Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture: Landscapes of Sufi Space in Mughal Delhi and Lahore (01:00:30) 45 views
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands - Behind-the-Scenes Curators' Commentary (00:11:05) 3364 views
Building the Moroccan Court (00:01:59) 6159 views
