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Travel & Lodging - Islamic Art Symposium

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Travel & Lodging. We are pleased to be returning to Doha for the Sixth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and we hope that you enjoy your visit to this fabulous city if you are coming from abroad. There is much to see in the city, including the Museum of Islamic Art and Mathaf (the Arab museum of modern art) and outside of the city, the Sheikh Faisal Museum and Richard Serra’s new art installation, East-West. Travel Tips and Etiquette. It is forbidden to bring alcohol into the country, a...

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2015 Fellows - Islamic Art Symposium

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We are delighted that we will be hosting the following scholars, and thank again all of those who applied for a fellowship this cycle. Is a Phd student at Leiden University (Netherlands), working on the role of scripture in early Islamic Egypt and the study of Quranic amulets on papyri and paper. Is Associate Professor of African and Islamic art history at DePaul University with a current research interest in manuscripts and calligraphy from Mauritania. Is Executive Editor of the Guide to Islamic Calligr...

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Nasser Al-Salem - Islamic Art Symposium

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Islamic Architecture and Calligraphy: The Geometric Parallel. Islamic Architecture & Calligraphy: The Geometric Parallel.

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Publications - Islamic Art Symposium

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For the program of. God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture. Held November 9-11 in Palermo, Italy, please click here. The thirteen original papers delivered at the fourth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha in 2011, have been edited and published by Yale University Press in a book that is now available for purchase. For the program of. God Is Beautiful; He Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture.

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Organizers - Islamic Art Symposium

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Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom share the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Norma Jean Calderwood University Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College. Together, they are the authors of more than a dozen books, including. The Art and Architecture of Islam: 1250-1800. Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power. Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Sheila Blair is individually the author of. Minaret: Symbol of Islam.

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Program - Islamic Art Symposium

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Saturday, November 7, 2015. Location: Al Rayyan Theater, Souq Waqif. 5 6pm: Conference Reception. 6 7:30pm: Opening Ceremony. Ten Years of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art/em Opening Ceremony followed by Jonathan Bloom. Writing as Signifier of Islam. Sunday, November 8, 2015. Location: Auditorium of the Museum of Islamic Art, Corniche. 8:30 9am: Conference Registration. 9 9:15am: Opening Remarks – Jonathan Bloom. 9:15 10am: Robert Hoyland. The Birth of Arabic Writing on Stone. 12 12:45pm: H...

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Speakers - Islamic Art Symposium

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Arabic Typography and the Shaping of a Modern Print Culture. Islamic Architecture and Calligraphy: The Geometric Parallel. Contemporary Muslim Calligraphy: Its Formation and Challenges (Featuring the Collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia). How Paper Changed Islamic Art. Sheila S. Blair. Writing as Signifier of Islam. Reading between the Lines: Text and Image in Sixteenth-Century Iran. The Birth of Arabic Writing on Stone. The Spread of Islamic Inscriptions in East and Southeast Asia.

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History - Islamic Art Symposium

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History of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. God Is Beautiful; He Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture. The fourth symposium, was held at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar in 2011, where twelve speakers presented papers on objects in the museum’s collection, covering the principal media, periods, and regions of Islamic art from its origins to the present. In 2013,. God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture. Sign up for Email Updates.

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Sponsors - Islamic Art Symposium

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Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU). A member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, is an emerging research university building upon unique collaborations with local and international partners. Located within Education City in Doha, Qatar, HBKU seeks to provide unparalleled opportunities for scholarship, teaching, discovery, and learning for all of its students through an array of interdisciplinary programs.