Series

Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism

In the lecture series " Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism.” We host online talks in order to foster greater engagement between scholars of early Shīʿism who focus on texts and specialists in Islamic material culture, art, architecture, and archaeology. You can find past lectures on our youtube channel.

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Programme

28 Mar
Lecture Early Shi'i Sacred Topographies: Some Preliminary Considerations on Kufa and Medina Aila Santi
16 Apr
Lecture | online lecture series Pre-Safavid Shi'ite Material culture from Kashan Mohamad Reza Ghiasian
21 May
Lecture Debate and Dialogue: Polemics, Kalam and the Artistic Inscription in Islamic Spaces Hamidreza Azarinia
27 Jun
Lecture Carved in Stone: Shii Funerary inscriptions and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Egypt Teresa Bernheimer
10 Sep
Lecture What makes Qum special in the architecture of Ilkhanid Iran? Robert Hillenbrand
19 Nov
Debate Shrines and Shrine Culture in Pre-Safavid Shi'ism: a Joint Discussion Fuchsia Hart (V&A) and Stephennie Mulder (University of Texas)
17 Dec
Lecture The Askari shrine and its urban context in Abbasid Samarra Alastair Northedge