8 T H E A G issue A K H A AKPIA AKTC N P Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Pro- Buildings and public spaces are R grams for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at physical manifestations of culture in O Harvard University and at the Massa- societies both past and present. They G a k p i a chusetts Institute of Technology are sup- represent human endeavors that can R A ported by endowments for instruction, enhance the quality of life, foster self- a k t c M research, and student aid from His High- understanding and community values, T F ness the Aga Khan. AKPIA is dedicated to and expand opportunities for economic HO the study of Islamic architecture, urban- and social development into the 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 ER ism, visual culture, and conservation, in future. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture A I an effort to respond to the cultural and (AKTC) is an integral part of the Aga features: GSL educational needs of a diverse constitu- Khan Development Network (AKDN), AA ency drawn from all over the world. a family of institutions created by His Harvard HAA KM Activities p. 2 Highness the Aga Khan with distinct yet People p. 8 HIC Along with the focus on improving the complementary mandates to improve A teaching of Islamic art and architecture the welfare and prospects of people Harvard GSD NA Activities p. 20 R and setting a standard of excellence in in countries of the developing world, T People p. 27 RC professional research, AKPIA also con- particularly in Asia and Africa. H U tinually strives to promote visibility of MIT I ST the pan-Islamic cultural heritage. Though their spheres of activity and Activities p. 33 TE People p. 39 C expertise differ—ranging from social F OT development to economic development Archnet p. 50 U R to culture—AKDN institutions share CRE at least three principles that guide U their work. The first is dedication to self- & L sustaining development that can T U contribute to long-term economic R advancement and social harmony. The E second is a commitment to the vigorous participation of local communities in all development efforts. Finally, all Network institutions seek shared responsibility for 1 positive change. AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2011-12 AKPIA HARVARD LECTURE SERIES: A November 10 March 8 FORUM FOR ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE “Water and Work in the Mughal Landscape” “Edirne: A Former Capital of the Ottoman Empire James Wescoat and Its Architecture” AKPIA lectures are held on Thursdays, 5:30– Aga Khan Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Nevnihal Erdog˘an Technology Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program 6:30 pm, in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; A Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway. G November 17 Professor of Architecture, Kocaeli University A Lectures are free and open to the public. For K “The Aga Khan Museum: Creating a New H additional information, please visit http:// A Museum of Islamic Art” March 22 N agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/. P Michael Brand “Opus Sectile Decorations of Mamluk Cairo” R 8 O Director, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Ruggero Longo G R November 3 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program A M “The Eagle Capitals in the Dome of the Rock” February 16 for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; F issue O Lawrence Nees “Petrified Powers: Medieval Islamic Talismans” Research Associate, Università degli Studi della R IS Professor of Medieval Art, University of Delaware Persis Berlekamp Tuscia, Viterbo a k p i a L A Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program a k t c M IC Studies at Harvard University for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; March 29 2011-2012 A Assistant Professor of Art History, University “‘Many a wish has turned to dust’: Pir Budaq and R THCH of Chicago the Formation of Turcoman Arts of the Book” E AITE David J. Roxburgh GC AT Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art KHURE History, Harvard University A & N TR April 19 U S “Chaha¯rba¯ghs, Palaces, and Mughal Court T F Routine in the Sixteenth Century” O R Laura Parodi C U Associate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic L T U Architecture, Harvard University R E April 26 “Mustafa ´Ali and the Arts of the Book” Serpil Bag˘ cı Professor of Islamic Art, Hacettepe University 2 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2011–2012 ACTIVITIES 2011–2012 CONFERENCE AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY A The Aga Khan Program at Harvard University G A actively promotes, nurtures, and disseminates K H research on the history of art and architecture A N in the Islamic world through the scholarship P R and teaching of its faculty, the activities of its 8 O G students, the sponsorship of the Aga Khan R A M Fellowship Program, the AKPIA Lecture Series, F and the publication of Muqarnas: An Annual on issue O R IS the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World. a k p i a L A a k t c M IC 2011-2012 A 2011–2012 EVENTS R TC HH E AITE GC AT KUR HE A & N T R On November 18, 2011, Professor Gülru U S T Necipog˘lu, Director of the Aga Khan Program F O for Islamic Architecture, arranged a one-day R C meeting at the Department of History of Art U LT and Architecture at Harvard University, bringing U R together all the Aga Khan Professors with repre- E sentatives of the Aga Khan Foundation (Geneva) and directors and curators from the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto) to discuss future collabora- tions. This meeting took place the day after Dr. Michael Brand delivered his AKPIA lecture at 3 Harvard on plans for the Toronto museum. AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY MUQARNAS: AN ANNUAL ON THE VISUAL CULTURES OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD A G A K H A N P R 8 O G R A M F issue O R IS a k p i a L A a k t c M IC 2011-2012 A R TC HH E AITE GC AT KUR HE A & N T R U S T F O R C U L T U R E The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of Muqarnas 28 (2011) and the latest Supplement to Muqarnas, Mir´a¯t al-quds (Mirror of Holiness): A Life of Christ for Emperor Akbar, by Pedro Moura Carvalho, with a translation by Wheeler M. Thackston (2011). These volumes are now available for purchase through Brill Publishers, www.brill.nl. 4 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY STUDIES AND SOURCES ON ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE: SUPPLEMENTS TO MUQARNAS A G A K H A N P R 8 O G R A M F issue O R IS a k p i a L A a k t c M IC 2011-2012 A R TC HH E AITE GC AT KUR HE A & N T R U S T F O R C U L T U R E 5 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2011–2012 AKPIA RESEARCH AND TRAVEL AKPIA, History of Art and Architecture, History of Art and Architecture 249n: GRANTS Harvard University, Courses Offered The Travel Narrative and Art History David J. Roxburgh and Hugo van der Velden Anastassiia Botchkareva, HAA doctoral student 2011–2012 COURSES Bibliothèque nationale Travel narratives of the medieval through early modern periods recorded by pilgrims, artists, A Paris, France FALL 2011 G ambassadors, among others, are examined for A Institute of Oriental Studies K what they offer to art historical inquiry. Critical H St. Petersburg, Russia Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 40: A texts from Europe and Asia are studied. N Monuments of Islamic Architecture P R Zeynep Og˘uz, HAA doctoral student Gülru Necipog˘lu-Kafadar and David J. Roxburgh 8 O History of Art and Architecture 124e: Architecture G RCAC Intensive Ottoman Epigraphy course, R of the Early Modern Islamic Empires: Proseminar A An introduction to ten iconic monuments of the M Koç University Gülru Necipog˘ lu-Kafadar F Istanbul, Turkey Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to issue O R the early modern period. The course introduces IS various types of building—mosques, palaces, Between the 16th and 18th centuries, three a k p i a LA Ünver Rüstem, HAA doctoral student great empires ruled the Islamic lands from the a k t c MIC Centre des Archives diplomatiques mthue lftaifcutnocrst itohnaatl schoamppelde xthese—m,a anrdti sctiticy, tpyapteros naanld, Balkans to Bengal. The Mediterranean-based 2011-2012 A Nantes, France Ottomans, Safavids in Iran, and Mughals in R socio-political, religio-cultural, and economic. THCH Topkapı Palace Museum Library; Prime Ministry Each case study is divided into two lectures. India developed visual cultures with distinctive E AITE Ottoman Archives; Nuruosmaniye Mosque The first presents the monument or city by architectural and ornamental idioms, originating GC AT Istanbul, Turkey from a shared Timurid heritage. The cities, KHURE “thweamlkeinsg e”l itchitreodu gfrho mit. Tthhee esxeacomnpdl eis, ddeevveoltoepde tdo i n monuments, and modes of ornament created AN & Abbey Stockstill, HAA doctoral student light of comparative monuments, sites, and/or in each empire are studied from aesthetic and TR Middlebury College Language School written sources, and to problems of patronage, contextual perspectives, with respect to religious U ST Middlebury, Vermont production, audience, and meaning as they orientations, imperial ideologies, and theories of F dynastic legitimacy. O pertain to architectural history. R C U L T U R E 6 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY SPRING 2012 History of Art and Architecture 222m: Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Gülru Necipog˘lu-Kafadar and Alina A. Payne A G A K Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin H A (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with N P emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and R 8 O transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, G R science and technology, architectural practice, A M ornament, urban design, military, religious and F issue O domestic architecture. R IS a k p i a L A History of Art and Architecture 120n: Art of the a k t c M IC Timurids in Greater Iran and Central Asia 2011-2012 A David J. Roxburgh R TC HH E AITE Critical examination of the arts of the book, GC AT portable arts, and architecture sponsored by KHURE the Timurids (1370–1507), a dynasty founded by AN & Timur (Tamerlane). Emphasis will also be given TR to primary written sources in translation. U S T F O R C U L T U R E 7 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty it with full quotations of Ottoman Turkish delivered a paper titled “Early Modern Floral: primary sources. The book was translated by Gül Ottoman Ornament between Naturalism and Çag˘alı-Güven with Ottoman transliterations by Mimetic Abstraction” as part of the session on Gülru Necipog˘lu Hesna Ta¸s kömür, and will be published in 2012 by “Early Modern Global Affinities.” They plan to Bilgi University Press, Istanbul. publish the conference proceedings. A Gülru Necipog˘lu is the Aga Khan Professor G Gülru was invited to deliver the lecture “Visual Gülru chaired the following panels: “Shifting A of Islamic Art and Director of the Aga Khan K Cosmopolitanism and the Aesthetics of Fusion: the Scales,” at the Harvard international H Program for Islamic Architecture in the A Artistic Interactions with Renaissance Italy at the conference “The Mediterranean Criss-Crossed N Department of History of Art and Architecture PR at Harvard University. She is the Editor of Court of Sultan Mehmed II,” at the INHA (Institut & Constructed” (April 28–30, 2011); and 8 O national d’histoire de l’art), Paris, on May 13, 2011. “Architecture of Tekkes and Dergahs,” at the G Muqarnas and Supplements to Muqarnas. In R She delivered the plenary panel keynote lecture, Bog˘aziçi University international conference A 2011 she edited Muqarnas 28, which includes her M “Art and Architecture in Muslim Societies,” at the “Alevi-Bektashi Shi’i Communities in the F “Editor’s Foreword: In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar issue O conference “Beyond Golden Age and Decline: The Ottoman Realm: Sources, Paradigms and R (1929–2011),” and vol. 12 in the Supplements IS to Muqarnas series: Mir’a¯t al-quds (Mirror of Legacy of Muslim Societies in Global Modernity, Historiography” (December 13–15, 2010). She was a k p i a L A 1300–1900” (NEH Project on Bridging Cultures a commentator at the workshop on “Ebussuud a k t c M Holiness): A Life of Christ for Emperor Akbar, IC author: Pedro Moura Carvalho; transcription and Initiative, George Mason University, March 14, and His World of Thought” held at Sabancı 2011-2012 A 2011). University (December 16–18, 2010). R translation: Wheeler M. Thackston. TC HH E AITE She recently offered the following courses: Gülru and Cemal Kafadar co-organized an Gülru also participated in two workshop GC A KHTURE “WArocrhldit: eAc tCurroes sin-C tuhletu Eraarll yP eMrsopdeecrtniv Me,”e ad isteemrrainnaera n iCnuteltrunraet aionnda Sl csiyemncpeo,”s icuom-s,p “Aorncshoirteedct buyr eM, ardin mproeejetcint g“Tso hpekladp iın P Iasltaacneb Aullb fuomr tsh, eH p. 2u1b5l3ic aantido Hn . AN & co-taught with Alina Payne; the seminar Artuklu University and Harvard University. The 2160” (August 8–10 and December 26–27, 2011). TR “Ottoman Architectural Culture and Urbanism symposium was held in Mardin, Turkey, on March Accompanied by scholarly essays, the Turkish- U S 17, 2011. She chaired the panel on “Architectural Japanese-English versions of the facsimile T in the Age of Sinan”; “Monuments of Islamic F Heritage of Mardin and Its Relationship to the volumes will be published by MAS Matbaası, O Architecture,” a General Education course R Antique Past.” A two-day bus tour of Islamic Istanbul, 2012–13. C (Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding) U monuments and Syriac-Christian monasteries L co-taught with David Roxburgh; and the T U of Mardin, Midyat, and Cizre accompanied the As part of another long-term project, R proseminar “Architecture of the Early Modern E symposium. she finalized the table of contents and Islamic Empires.” commissioned authors to write essays for a two- Gülru co-organized another international volume collection she will co-edit with Finbarr Throughout the past year Gülru supervised the conference at Harvard with Alina Payne, Barry Flood for The Blackwell Companion Series: Turkish translation of her book, The Age of Sinan: “Ornament as Portable Culture: Between A Reader of Islamic Art and Architecture, 650 to Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire Globalism and Localism,” April 12–14, 2012. She the Present. The publication of these volumes is (London, Reaktion Books, 2005, 2010), expanding 8 tentatively scheduled for 2014–15. AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Gülru launched yet another publication project Church in Harvard Yard. Followed by for the Supplements to Muqarnas series a reception at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, (2015–16), to be preceded by a Harvard AKPIA this touching event was co-sponsored by the workshop, which will be held in the next spring Aga Khan Program at Harvard University and term. The volume will contain essays along with the Historians of Islamic Art Association. an edition of MS Török F. 59 (Hungarian National Personal remembrances presented by faculty, A G Library), an early inventory of the Islamic family, students, and friends have been posted A K manuscripts collection kept at the Topkapı on the AKPIA website (http://agakhan.fas. H A Palace Treasury, compiled by the royal librarian harvard.edu/). N P in 1502–3. Cemal Kafadar, Cornell Fleischer, and R 8 O Gülru are co-editing the volume, which will A conference commemorating the first G R include a facsimile and transliteration of the anniversary of Professor Grabar’s death was held A M Arabic inventory and a full critical apparatus, on January 8, 2012, at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, F issue O accompanied by essays and studies by a team of which he was a Board Member. Gülru gave R IS of scholars from Harvard University and the the opening lecture, “In Memoriam, Oleg a k p i a L A University of Chicago. The text of this rare Grabar (1929–2011).” At this conference, titled a k t c M IC manuscript is currently being prepared by “Oleg Grabar’s Contributions to the History of 2011-2012 A Himmet Taskömür. Turkish and Islamic Art/Architecture,” his former R TC HH students and students of students delivered E AITE On November 18, 2011, Gülru arranged a one-day personalized talks. GC AT meeting at the Department of History of Art KHURE and Architecture at Harvard University, bringing An abridged version of the Memorial Minutes AN & together all the Aga Khan Professors with of Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic TR representatives of the Aga Khan Foundation Art, Emeritus, prepared by a committee (William U S (Geneva) and directors and curators from the Graham, Thomas Lentz, and David Roxburgh) T F Aga Khan Museum (Toronto) to discuss future chaired by Gülru, were read by her at the Harvard O R collaborations. This meeting took place the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Meeting on April 10, C U day after Dr. Michael Brand delivered his AKPIA 2011. The long version of the Grabar Memorial L T U lecture at Harvard on plans for the Toronto Minutes is available on the websites of the R E museum. Harvard Gazette and Office of the Secretary. On a sad note, Gülru organized a memorial service for Harvard’s first Aga Khan Professor, Oleg Grabar, who died on January 8, 2011. The service was held on April 23rd at the Memorial 9 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY and Monuments of Islamic Pilgrimage,” in Although this seemed very far away from Islamic Architecture and Its Representation in Islamic art and architecture, Roxburgh was struck by the Arts, ed. Margaret Graves (2011); and a review of productive comparisons that could be drawn David Roxburgh the exhibition on gifts held at the Los Angeles between Christian conquest and conversion County Museum of Art (Summer 2011), currently in the New World and Christian reconquest David J. Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in old Spain, particularly how the comparison A GA Professor of Islamic Art History, returned to “Foreign Exchange: On Gifts of the Sultan: The obtains to the adaptation and transformation of K teaching in Fall 2010. In 2011, he presented papers Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts,” From the pre-existing spaces of worship and sacred sites. H A on different topics, including “Illustrating al- Vault column, Art Forum 49, 9 (2011). He also A visit to Florence in June included research at N P Jazari: Text and Image in al-Jami’ bayn al-’ilm wa completed “The Illustrated Book in Mongol Iran” the Museo Galileo and its collection of Islamic R 8 O al-’amal al-nafi’fi sina’at al-hiyal (Compendium for a volume on the art of the Mongols to be scientific instruments, particularly Ibrahim G RA of Science and Useful Practice in the Making published early in 2012. He will soon complete b. Sa’id al-Sahli al-Wazzan’s celestial globe of M of Mechanical Devices),” at Mardin Artuklu his first version of an essay on al-Hariri’s 1080/85. F issue O University; “Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi’s Uranometry Maqamat, to be published in Muqarnas in 2012, R IS Treatise Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book and after this and other smaller projects are a k p i a L A of Forms of the Fixed Stars) c. 965,” in the completed he will turn full-time to a book-length a k t c M IC conference “Aesthetics and Techniques of study about text and image in medieval Arabic 2011-2012 AR Lines Between Drawing and Writing,” CIHA manuscripts. TC HH Colloquium, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in E AITE Florence; and “Troubles with Perspective: Case Short trips to work in libraries and museums GC AT Studies in Picture-Making from Qajar Iran in in Europe and Turkey are planned for 2012. KHURE the 1800s,” in the conference “In the Wake of Over spring break in 2011, Roxburgh traveled AN & the Global Turn: Propositions for an Exploded to southeastern Turkey with Gülru Necipog˘lu, TR Art History Without Borders” at the Clark Art Cemal Kafadar, and other scholars for a U S Institute. He is preparing talks for, among others, conference at Artuklu Üniversitesi in Mardin. T FO conferences on ornament and script at Harvard They had the good fortune to travel to sites in R C University and Dumbarton Oaks, respectively, the region, including Cizre, Dara, Kiziltepe, and U scheduled in 2012. Midyat. In May, he traveled to Peru as part of an L T U excursion of some twenty sophomore History of R E Work on the publishing front yielded several Art and Architecture concentrators and faculty essays in 2011, including: “The Qajar Lacquer members led by Professor Thomas Cummins. Object” and “Beyond Books: The Art and Practice They visited monuments and museums in of the Single-Page Drawing in Iran,” for the Lima; Andean Inca sites at Pisac, Ollantaytambo, exhibition catalog celebrating the Norma Cuzco, and Machu Picchu; and the Moche and Jean Calderwood gift of Islamic art to the Chimu sites in the vicinity of the modern cities 10 Harvard Art Museums; “Visualizing the Sites of Chiclayo and Trujillo on the north coast.