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• Chinese painted paper and its impact on the illumination of Persian manuscripts
• How to do things with things: objects and space in Seljuq court ceremonies
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• The Archie Walls Archive
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• A Database of Arabic Graffiti from the Islamic Period in North-Eastern Jordan
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• INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC ART & ARCHAEOLOGY (ca. 1400-1700 AD)
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• European Research Council awards €2.5 million to the Documenting Multiculturalism Project
• Dr Cailah Jackson awarded Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize and Margaret B. Ševčenko Prizes
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• Intricate Geometries from Byzantine Church to Umayyad Palace: Motifs and meanings in the mosaics of late antique Syria
• Syriac Calligraphy: Introducing a Neglected Field of Study
• The Artistic Undertakings of Caliph al-Hakam II in Cordoba
• 7th-9th century churches in the Persian Gulf as ‘museums of forms’
• Dehistan: Archaeology of a Medieval Pilgrimage City
• The Qur’an, its Transmission and Textual Variants: Confronting Early Manuscripts and Written Traditions
• The Decline of Christianity in Southern Jordan after the Muslim Conquest
• The Magnificent Seven (plus) - A study of early Islamic rock crystal wine jugs
• Dr Gizem Tongo joins the British Institute at Ankara
• The Mosque of Ibn Tulun, its Original Design and Later Transformations
• Jessica Rahardjo
• Book Series Arabo-Islamica Welcomes Submissions
• Leverhulme Doctoral Centre Publication beyond Print Welcomes Applications
• TOSCCA Seminar: "The Great Silk Road: Myths and Realities"
• Kristýna Rendlová
• Fake or Fortune? Recent Finds on a 13th century Persian Lustre Bowl
• I.M. Pei Graduate Scholarship in Islamic Art and Architecture 2019
• I.M. Pei Graduate Scholarship in Islamic Art and Architecture
• Workshop for Manuscripts and Text Cultures
• Manuscripts, Patrons, and Artists in Late Medieval Konya, 1270s – 1330s
• Change, Continuity and Rupture: Qur’an Manuscript Production in the Central and Eastern Islamic Lands of the 11th century
• Spatial Poetry and the Sufi Body: the chelleh-khaneh at the Shrine of Shah Ni’matullah Wali in Mahan
• From Iran to Anatolia: Islamic Architecture and Patronage of the Saljuq Period and Beyond
• The Eye of the Calligrapher: The Literature on Writing and Calligraphy in Arabic Script as a Source on the Perception of Calligraphy in Medieval Islam
• ‘Subtle Inventions and Marvellous Innovations’: ‘Abbas ibn Firnas, Craft, and Intellect in al-Andalus
• The History of Churches and Monasteries in Egypt: A Medieval Encyclopaedic Source on Church Building, Decoration and Patronage in Egypt and Beyond
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• The Art of Abrī: The Advent, Evolution, and Impact of Turco-Persianate Paper Marbling in the Early Modern Period
• Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
• Sensory Explorations in Ottoman Architectural History
• Poetry in the Garden of Love: The Context and Setting of the Ottoman Meclis
• Marble from Samarra: Its Use, Re-use, and Relationship to the Idea of an ‘Abbasid Style
• Sufi Conception of Beauty: The Case of Rūzbihān Baqlī (d. 1209)
• The Era of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Mu’ayyad Shaykh
• Islamic Portable Architecture in Christian Contexts: The Use of Islamic Tents in Medieval Italian Churches
• Professor Alain George - Inaugural Lecture - May 28th 2019
• Navigating the Text - Dr Umberto Bongianino
• Exhibition and Publications - Dr Gizem Tongo
• Louise Blanke
• Mark Whittow Memorial Conference
• Symposia Iranica Awards 2019
• 'A Tale of Two Sicilies' - Current research on Sicilian Early Medieval history
• Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition
• Analysing rock crystal and other hard-stone craftsmanship in medieval and early modern Muslim societies - From raw material to the final product
• Rock Crystal workshop recordings
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• Umayyad Religious Architecture
• Early Islamic Coinage
• Umayyad Qur’ans and Calligraphy
• Umayyad palaces and the "desert castles"
• Baghdad and Samarra
• Early Islamic Egypt and the Tulunids
• The western Umayyad caliphate
• Turks, Marvels, and Monsters: Abbasid Perspectives on the Eurasian Steppe
• "Islamic" archaeology
• Figural representation and the "princely cycle"
• Orientalism and Islamic Art
• Geometry: arguments on 'girih' and 'muqarnas'
• The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
• The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
• The archeology of the Ṣan‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
• The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
• Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
• Manuscrits Coraniques de l'Afrique, une étude comparative
• The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and beyond: a tentative reconstruction of the early Islamic topography of Madīna al-Munawwara (622- 750) based on written sources
• Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
• British Institute at Ankara Lecture: The Mevlevis and their Manuscripts in 13th-14th Anatolia
• Dr Cailah Jackson joins the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
• Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century
• Now You See Him, Now You Don’t – the Numismatic Disappearing Act of the Umayyad Caliph ʿAbd al- Malik b. Marwan
• Petrifying Power: video series
• Workshop on Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily and the Islamicate East - Friday 29 November 2019
• Workshop on Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily and the Islamicate East
• Art in Troubled Times: Venetia Porter and Charles Tripp, in conversation with Eugene Rogan - Friday 15 November 2019
• OXCIS Hilary Term Seminars
• Fatimid Architecture and its Messages
• TBC
• The Seljuq Empire and its Legacy
• Figural Art and Manuscript Illustration in the Near East
• India from Early Islam to the Sultanates
• The Arts under the Almoravids and Almohads
• Iran under Mongol Rule
• The Mamluk “Public Text”: Epigraphy and Calligraphy
• Museums and Collections
• Islamic Aesthetics
• Beauty and the Qur’an
• Travellers' Perceptions of the Built Environment
• New thoughts about the edict of Yazid II (ca. 723) and Palestinian iconoclasm
• Displaying the Royal Collections of the Topkapi Palace: The Imperial Treasury, the Chamber of Sacred Relics, and the Ottoman Imperial Museum
• How to create a new multicultural art form: the opus sectile Arabic verse inscriptions from Norman Sicily
• In Search of Local Characteristics: Manuscript making in the Islamic world
• Palimpsests from the Qubbat al-Khazna
• Ways of Viewing: Persianate Reception of Chinese Painting (15th to mid-16th Centuries)
• The Palace of Pedro I in Seville: Ornament and Epigraphy between Granada and Toledo
• A Dialogue between Friends and Foes: Transcultural Interactions in Ilkhanid Capital Cities (1256-1335 AD)
• Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage - Professor Nasser David Khalili
• Bodleian Library Seminars - Hilary Term 2020
• “An art of subtlety: Fingernail works in the 19th-century Persianate world” - Dr Shiva Mihan
• TOSCCA Seminars - Hilary Term 2020
• ALHOM Open Access Publication
• Dr Jon Thompson
• Ana Silkatcheva
• Elvira Miceli
• Ruth MacDonald
• Paul Wordsworth
• Brill Launches Open Access Reference Work on the History of Medicine with the Wellcome Trust
• The Past and Present of Puppetry in the Arab World
• Lectures during lockdown
• In Memoriam: Lesley Forbes
• Rebuilding Iran - Oxford Review of Books
• Papers Presented to István Ormos
• Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum
• Early Islamic Coinage
• Umayyad Religious Architecture
• Umayyad Qur'ans and Calligraphy
• Umayyad Palaces and the ‘Desert Castles’
• Baghdad and Samarra
• Early Islamic Egypt and the Tulunids
• The Western Umayyad Caliphate
• Calligraphy in the Age of Ibn Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab
• 'Islamic' Archaeology
• Figural Representation and the 'Princely Cycle'
• Geometry: Arguments on Girih and Muqarnas
• Orientalism and Islamic Art
• Language Teaching in Michaelmas Term
• Ottoman Texts Reading Group
• I.M. Pei Scholarship in Islamic Art & Architecture
• I.M. Pei Scholarship in Islamic Art & Architecture
• Fatimid Architecture and its Messages
• Islamic Art and the Museum
• The Material Culture of the Ghaznavid and Early Ghurid Worlds
• The Seljuq Empire and its Legacy
• Figural Art and Manuscript Illustration in the Near East
• India from Early Islam to the Sultanates
• The Arts under the Almoravids and Almohads
• Iran under Mongol Rule
• The Mamluk "Public Text": Epigraphy and Calligraphy
• Collectors, Dealers, Archaeologists and Museums: The Prehistory of Islamic Art as a Scholarly Discipline
• Travellers' Perceptions of the Built Environment
• Islamic Aesthetics
• Beauty and the Qur'an
• Philanthropy and Patronage
• Beauty and the Qur'an
• Art as Palimpsest
• Documents as Artefacts
• Conspicuous Use of Spolia
• The Caliph and the Monks’ Cattle: an Almohad Decree in Favour of a Catalan Monastery (1217)
• In Search for the Ḥafṣid Manuscript: Aesthetic Aspects of Ḥafṣid Manuscript Culture (c. 1250-1550)
• Why study manuscripts of the Kitāb alshifāʾ by al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (1083–1149)?
• A Little 'Light' Reading from the Ottoman Court: Painting, Entertainment and Self-Fashioning around Murad III and Mehmet III
• Malay World “Javanaiserie's" etymologies and translations: Questions of provenance and agency through mosques and architectural ornament
• Text as image as icon: Or, how 'the blessing of Muḥammad' once governed Morocco
• The Umayyad quṣūr: urbanism, irrigation and Hisham's passion for interior design
• POSTPONED - Conversation with Jerrilynn Dodds, 2021 Slade Professor of Fine Art
• I seminari di Documult
• Institute of Arabic Manuscripts - Book of the Year 2021
• The Azizeh Sheibani Essay Prize in Iranian Studies
• 2021 Dionisius A. Agius Prize
• Edward Shawe-Taylor
• Umayyad Religious Architecture
• Early Islamic Coinage
• Umayyad Qur'ans and Calligraphy
• Reassessing the Umayyad "Desert Palaces"
• Baghdad and Samarra
• Early Islamic Egypt and the Tulunids
• The Western Umayyad Caliphate
• Calligraphy in the Age of Ibn Muqla and Ibn al-Bawwab
• Architecture I: Introduction to drawing conventions, equipment and practical information
• Architecture II: Site Visit
• Manuscripts I
• Manuscripts II
• 2021 Zenobia Award
• Call for Papers: Rethinking Royal Manuscripts in a 'Global Middle Ages'
• Digital Resources
• KRC Diacritics keyboard for PC and Mac
• Kizilbash/Alevi-Bektashi History Workshop 2022: Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• Ṭarz-i Tāze [The Fresh Style] in the Safavid Inshā Literature: The Fetishised Topography of Early Modern Persian Epistolography
• Udayan Daniel Ghose : 4 April 1959 – 21 November 2021
• Federica Gigante
• Position available: Research Fellow at the History of Science Museum
• Temple, palace, mosque: architects experiment in Vijayanagara
• Finding Ibn Faḍlān: knowns, unknowns and unknowables
• Moraqqaʿ and Laff wa-nashr: intermedial aesthetics and interspaces of comparison
• The starling talisman of late fifteenth-century Istanbul: Ottoman historians’ engagement with the city’s antiquities
• Weaving capital and labour: the making of Egyptian textiles between the ninth and the twelfth centuries
• Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī and the Umayyad madīna
• Kashan potters: supplies and distribution networks and the “Shi‘ite connection” (late 12th–early 14th centuries)
• Norman Sicily and Ifrīqiya - Documents, Scripts and Islamic Law
• Gabriel Fowden
• Helena Davies
• Workshop: Norman Sicily and Ifrīqiya - Documents, Scripts and Islamic Law
• Sonia Merli
• Early modern Persian compilations conference
• Call for Applications: Barakat Master's and Postdoctoral Awards
• Islamic Law in Norman Sicily
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon
• Al-Madīna al-Bayḍāʾ: a capital city for the Marinid dynasty
• Tiny book, great effect: the forms and purposes of pendant Qurʾān manuscripts
• The Damascus fragments (Şam evrakları) in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (TIEM) in İstanbul: third sondage, December 2022
• Fabrics of sainthood: making and experiencing inscribed tomb covers in nineteenth-century Morocco
• The Riverside Garden of the Caliphal Palace of Samarra
• The Diegesis: a hagiographical text for the commemoration of the encaenia of Hagia Sophia
• The invention of paradise: new evidence on the origins of chaharbaghs
• KRC Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
• Turkey & Syria Earthquake Relief
• Law in Societies lecture recording
• Arabic, Greek and bilingual documents and the Latin church in Norman Sicily
• Chess and Perceptions of Difference in the Shahnama
• Remembering the Dismembering: Accounts of Muḥammad Shaybānī Khan’s Dispatched Body Parts
• Khawand Baraka: The Power of Female Agency in Fourteenth-Century Cairo
• To Compare Roses and Pearls: Love and Madness in Illustrated Poetry, Niẓāmī's Laylī va Majnūn and the Roman de la Rose
• Materia Medica on the Move: Illustrated Herbals in the Early Modern Mediterranean
• Women’s Fashions in Mamluk Cairo
• The Planetary Court of Humayun Padshah, Second Mughal Emperor
• Ibn Fadlan: Fact, Fantasy or Something in Between?
• Ernst Herzfeld Award
• 2022 CIÉPO Article Prize
• Muriel’s Mill: a case of intercommunal justice in the court of Count Roger II of Sicily (Palermo, 1123)
• Call for Papers: The Materiality of Pious Texts
• Temporal Authority and Divine Knowledge: Two Late 13th Century Bookstands Gifted to the Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Konya
• Islamic Art, Modern Warfare, and the End of the Ottoman Empire
• In Paper and Stone: Scribal Bodies and the Gulbarga Qurʾan, ca. 1400
• Inscribed Histories: West African Arabic Script Styles, their History and Palaeography
• Hagia Sophia to Theotokos Mouchliotissa: Structures and Narratives of Possession and Erasure in Early Modern Istanbul
• Under the Seal of Solomon: New Research on Arabic Funerary Epigraphy in Ethiopia (10th-14th centuries)
• Thinking in Lines and Circles: Script Patterns and the Visualization of Knowledge in the Kitab al-Diryaq (BnF arabe 2964)
• Staging Piety: Takkiyya Mu‘aven al Mulk in Kermanshah
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Arietta Papaconstantinou
• Zahra Kazani
• Juan de Lara
• Akshaj Awasthi
• Yanni Zhou
• Nadia Jamil
• Julian Faultless
• Jaimee Comstock-Skipp
• Publication News: Wisdom from the Ancients
• Early modern Italy and the Islamic World
• De la calligraphie à l’uranographie : concevoir et dessiner le firmament au Maghreb médiéval
• I.M.Pei Scholarship in Islamic Art
• Research Seminar Recordings - Michaelmas Term 2023
• Genomics, Proteomics, and Early Qur'ans
• Oliver James Watson 1949-2023
• New research on genomics and early Qur'ans at the Khalili Research Centre
• Memorial for Oliver Watson
• Ilkhanid Carved Stucco: Art, Artists and Aesthetics in Medieval Persia
• Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī: a Kalbid palace in the territory of Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik (r. 724–43 CE)?
• Carving Monuments: Funerary Innovations in the Eastern Persianate World
• Rural Settlement and Evergetism in Medieval Anatolia: The Epigraphic Evidence from Komana Pontica and its Region
• The Mevlevis Through Their Manuscripts: Scribes, Book Owners and Production Locations
• Documents from a Zoroastrian Kingdom on the Eve of an Islamic Conquest: The Tabarestān Archive in its Eighth-Century Context
• Beneath the Skin of Islamic Manuscript Materiality
• Ecology, Economy and Revolts in the Early Islamic Nile Delta
• Publication News: Muslims on the Volga in the Viking Age - In the Footsteps of Ibn Fadlan
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• Grants & Funding Opportunities
• List of available grants and awards in Islamic art and architecture
• Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize awarded to Edward Shawe-Taylor
• From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns (17-18 May 2024)
• Legal and Judicial Documents from Medieval Egypt: from Form to Function
• Ideology and Contestation in the Foundation Narratives of the First Islamic Cities
• Alessandro Bruschettini (1939–2021): a Collector of Islamic and Asian Art in Italy and his Legacy
• From Alexandria to Baghdad: Mechanical Marvels and Cultural Interactions in the Ancient and Early Medieval Middle East
• The Seals and Amulets of the Shrine of Hacı Bektaş: Writing Alevi-Bektashi Cultural History through Internal Sources
• The Fermo Ewer and the End of Fāṭimid Relief-carved Rock Crystal
• Stratigraphy of Detached Album Pages from the Louvre Collection: Assembly of Papers and Scientific Imaging
• From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
• Leverhulme Research Fellowship awarded to Zeynep Yürekli
• "Thinking About Caravans" - forthcoming lecture by Richard Bulliet (10th May 2024)