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 …