Stephennie Mulder sent this on H-Islamart. It is indeed terrible news “Dear Colleagues, I am heartbroken to inform you that the 11th-century minaret of the Umayyad mosque in Aleppo was destroyed yesterday. It was one of the great treasures of Islamic architecture, a restrained and elegant example of the exquisite stone-carving of medieval Syrian stonemasons. …
Identities & Islam: Material Culture, Self and Society in the Pre-Modern Muslim World was the inaugural UK Early Career Symposium on Islamic Archaeology. It was my first virtual conference: with the speakers in Southampton, and me watching at home (and others wherever they were). I wanted to share some of the points the keynote speaker, …
It’s the Islamic sales in London very soon. I usually focus on the ceramics, but this week I wanted to point out some almost-magic carpets, that you can go and see in person, if you’re near London. For example, in the Christies’ Oriental Rugs and Carpets Sale: – Lots 28 and 29 are two especially …
Lots of the work on Safavid Isfahan sees it as it is now – and not as the work-in-progress that many of the Isfahanis, and the European travellers, saw when they visited thoughout the seventeenth century. This is surely wrong! This section aims to bring out some of this – focusing especially on some less …