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THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE 8issue AKPIA AKTC Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Pro- Buildings and public spaces are grams for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at physical manifestations of culture in Harvard University and at the Massa- societies both past and present. They chusetts Institute of Technology are sup- represent human endeavors that can ported by endowments for instruction, enhance the quality of life, foster self- akpia research, and student aid from His High- understanding and community values, THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE ness the Aga Khan. AKPIA is dedicated to and expand opportunities for economic aktc the study of Islamic architecture, urban- and social development into the 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 ism, visual culture, and conservation, in future. The Aga Khan Trust for Culture an effort to respond to the cultural and (AKTC) is an integral part of the Aga features: educational needs of a diverse constitu- Khan Development Network (AKDN), Harvard HAA ency drawn from all over the world. a family of institutions created by His Activities p. 2 Highness the Aga Khan with distinct yet People p. 8 Along with the focus on improving the complementary mandates to improve teaching of Islamic art and architecture the welfare and prospects of people Harvard GSD Activities p. 20 and setting a standard of excellence in in countries of the developing world, People p. 27 professional research, AKPIA also con- particularly in Asia and Africa. tinually strives to promote visibility of MIT Activities p. 33 the pan-Islamic cultural heritage. Though their spheres of activity and People p. 39 expertise differ—ranging from social development to economic development Archnet p. 50 to culture—AKDN institutions share at least three principles that guide & their work. The first is dedication to self- sustaining development that can contribute to long-term economic advancement and social harmony. The 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 6:30 pm, in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Technology Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway. for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; Professor of Architecture, Kocaeli University Lectures are free and open to the public. For November 17 “The Aga Khan Museum: Creating a New additional information, please visit http:// Museum of Islamic Art” March 22 agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/. Michael Brand “Opus Sectile Decorations of Mamluk Cairo” Director, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto Ruggero Longo November 3 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program “The Eagle Capitals in the Dome of the Rock” February 16 for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; issue Lawrence Nees “Petrified Powers: Medieval Islamic Talismans” Research Associate, Università degli Studi della Professor of Medieval Art, University of Delaware Persis Berlekamp Tuscia, Viterbo 8 Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program akpia aktc Studies at Harvard University for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University; March 29 2011-2012 Assistant Professor of Art History, University “‘Many a wish has turned to dust’: Pir Budaq and THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE of Chicago the Formation of Turcoman Arts of the Book” David J. Roxburgh Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University April 19 “Chaha¯rba¯ghs, Palaces, and Mughal Court Routine in the Sixteenth Century” Laura Parodi Associate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University 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 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & The Aga Khan Program at Harvard University actively promotes, nurtures, and disseminates research on the history of art and architecture in the Islamic world through the scholarship and teaching of its faculty, the activities of its students, the sponsorship of the Aga Khan Fellowship Program, the AKPIA Lecture Series, issue and the publication of Muqarnas: An Annual on 8 the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World. akpia aktc 2011-2012 2011–2012 EVENTS THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE On November 18, 2011, Professor Gülru Necipog˘ lu, Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, arranged a one-day meeting at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, bringing together all the Aga Khan Professors with repre- 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 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & 8issue akpia aktc 2011-2012 THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE 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 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & 8issue akpia aktc 2011-2012 THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE 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 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & Paris, France FALL 2011 modern periods recorded by pilgrims, artists, Institute of Oriental Studies ambassadors, among others, are examined for what they offer to art historical inquiry. Critical St. Petersburg, Russia Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 40: texts from Europe and Asia are studied. Monuments of Islamic Architecture Zeynep Og˘ uz, HAA doctoral student Gülru Necipog˘lu-Kafadar and David J. Roxburgh History of Art and Architecture 124e: Architecture RCAC Intensive Ottoman Epigraphy course, of the Early Modern Islamic Empires: Proseminar Koç University An introduction to ten iconic monuments of the Gülru Necipog˘ lu-Kafadar Islamic world from the beginning of Islam to issue Istanbul, Turkey the early modern period. The course introduces Between the 16th and 18th centuries, three various types of building—mosques, palaces, 8 Ünver Rüstem, HAA doctoral student great empires ruled the Islamic lands from the akpia multifunctional complexes—and city types and Centre des Archives diplomatiques Balkans to Bengal. The Mediterranean-based aktc the factors that shaped them, artistic, patronal, 2011-2012 Nantes, France Ottomans, Safavids in Iran, and Mughals in THE AGA KHANTRUST FOR CULTURE socio-political, religio-cultural, and economic. Topkapı Palace Museum Library; Prime Ministry India developed visual cultures with distinctive Each case study is divided into two lectures. Ottoman Archives; Nuruosmaniye Mosque architectural and ornamental idioms, originating The first presents the monument or city by from a shared Timurid heritage. The cities, Istanbul, Turkey “walking” through it. The second is devoted to monuments, and modes of ornament created themes elicited from the example, developed in in each empire are studied from aesthetic and Abbey Stockstill, HAA doctoral student light of comparative monuments, sites, and/or contextual perspectives, with respect to religious Middlebury College Language School written sources, and to problems of patronage, orientations, imperial ideologies, and theories of Middlebury, Vermont production, audience, and meaning as they dynastic legitimacy. pertain to architectural history. 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 AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & Gülru Necipog˘lu-Kafadar and Alina A. Payne Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science