T H E A G A K issue H 3 A N AKPIA AKTC P R O Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Buildings and public spaces are physical G Program for Islamic Architecture at manifestations of culture in societies, past, R Harvard University and the Massachusetts and present.They represent human A M Institute of Technology are supported by endeavours that can enhance the quality endowments from His Highness The Aga of life, foster self-understanding and akpia F O Khan that support instruction, research, community values, and expand opportuni- october 2006 akt c R and student aid. Both programs are rec- ties for economic and social development I ognized today as leaders in the study of into the future. T S H features: L architecture and urbanism in the Islamic A E world. AKPIA is dedicated to the study of AKTC is an integral part of the Aga Khan M A Islamic architecture, urbanism, visual Development Network (AKDN),a family of G I Lecture Series p.2 C culture and conservation, in an effort to institutions created by His Highness The Aga A Aga Khan Program Harvard p.3 A respond to the cultural and educational Khan, with distinct yet complementary man- K R needs of a diverse constituency drawn dates to improve the welfare and prospects H Aga Khan Program GSD p.14 C A H from all over the world. of people in countries in the developing Aga Khan Program MIT p.18 N I world,particularly in Asia and Africa. T T Aga Khan Trust for Culture p.25 E Along with the focus on improving the R C teaching of Islamic art and architecture Though their spheres of activity and expert- ArchNet p.30 U T U and setting excellence as the standard ise differ—ranging from social develop- S T R in professional research, AKPIA also ment, to economic development, to E F continually strives to promote the culture—AKDN institutions share at least O & visibility of pan-Islamic cultural heritage. three principles that guide their work.The R first is a dedication to self-sustaining devel- C U opment that can contribute to long-term L economic advancement and social harmo- T U ny.The second is a commitment to the R vigorous participation of local communities E in all development efforts. Finally,all 1 Network institutions seek shared responsibility for positive change. AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE The Fall 2006 AKP MIT CONFERENCE THURSDAY, MARCH 15 “AN EVENING WITH...” “Analysis of Ceremonies in Ottoman MIT Lecture Series WORKSHOP, SATURDAY, MARCH 3 Miniatures: Perceptions and Representations” “Designing Development: Architecture, Zeynep Tarım Ertug,˘ Scholar and Lecturer, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Planning and the Taxonomies of Power in the Fine Arts Department, Istanbul University, A Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Program G “Documentary Film Presentation: Global Arena” A Celebrating Popular Islam in India:Short K H THURSDAY, APRIL 19 A Films on Devotional Images and Rituals of No further information is available at this N Indian Muslims” time. Please check the AKP at MIT website “Mirroring of Socio-Political Relations among P R Different Religious Communities in Urban and O Yousuf Saeed, Documentary Film Maker, for future details. G Architectural Patterns: Bilad al-Sham between R New Delhi, India A M the Sixth and Twelfth Centuries” issue 2006-2007 AKP Harvard Lecture F Mattia Guidetti, Scholar, Department of 3 O MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 Series: A Forum for Islamic Art R Euro-Asian Studies, University of Venice, Italy, 2 I “Between Scholarship and Experience; & Architecture S L Postdoctoral Fellow, akpia A The German and French Discourse on M Harvard Aga Khan Program akt c I Islamic Architecture” THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 october 2006 C T A Lorraine Declety,Ecole pratique des hautes “Making a Royal History Book: The Case of H R C E études, Paris,France;Technische Universität, the Shahnama of Selim II” THURSDAY, APRIL 26 H A I G T Dresden, Germany Emine Fetvacı, Society of Fellows in the “A King in His Own Court: Arabo-Persian A E C K Merchants and Material Culture of T Humanities, Stanford University H U A R MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 the Premodern Indian Ocean.” N E & T “Patterning Knowledge: Geometry and THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14 Elizabeth Lambourn, Senior Research Fellow, R U Islamic Art” “Formal and Semantic Considerations in the Faculty of Art and Design, De Montfort S T University, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre F Carol Bier, Research Associate, The Textile Analysis of Miniature Painting: The Case of O R Museum, Berkeley, California the Frame” for South Asian Studies, University of London, C Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Aga Khan Program U Rachel Milstein, Leo A. Mayer Chair, Muslim L T U Art and Archaeology Department,The Hebrew For further information, please consult: R The AKP Harvard Lecture Series takes place E University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow, http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/ Harvard Aga Khan Program at Harvard University's Sackler Museum, lecturescurrent.htm 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, Room 318. All events are free and open to the public. Lectures are held on Thursdays at 5:30pm All events are on Mondays from 5:30 and are open to the public. For further 2 to 7:30pm in room MIT 3-133 information, contact the Aga Khan Program at Harvard University. AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty Under the auspices of the Aga Khan Program at Harvard, Gülru and Sibel Bozdogan˘ organized an international symposium, Gülru Necipoglu˘ “Historiography and Ideology: Architectural David Roxburgh Heritage of the Lands of Rum,” held at the A Gülru is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic American Academy of Arts and Sciences David J. Roxburgh is Professor in the G A Art and the editor of Muqarnas and its May 11-13, 2006. The proceedings of the Department of History of Art and K H Supplements. She spent the summer doing symposium, which she and Sibel are in the Architecture. From the fall of 2005 to the A N research in Istanbul. Her most recent publica- process of editing, will be published as the spring semester of 2006, David presented lec- P R tion is the volume she edited for Supplements next issue of Muqarnas (vol. 24, 2007). tures at the Seventh International Association O G to Muqarnas: Sinan’s Autobiographies: A of Word and Image Studies, held in R A M Critical Edition of Five Sixteenth-Century Texts During this academic year (2006-7) Gülru Philadelphia, and for the Department of Art issue F (critical edition and translation by Howard will be delivering the Hadassah and Daniel History, University of Wisconsin, Madison; he 3 O R Crane and Esra Akın, 2006). The volume Khalili Memorial Lecture at SOAS on also delivered the Norma Jean Calderwood I S L includes her preface, titled “Sources, Themes, December 6, 2006, a lecture titled Lecture at Harvard University Art Museums. akpia A M and Cultural Implications of Sinan’s “Architectural Dialogues across the Early During his sabbatical leave from teaching in akt c I october 2006 C Autobiographies.” Her book The Age of Sinan: T A Modern Mediterranean World: Central-Plan the fall of 2006, he managed to catch his H R C E Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire Domed Sanctuaries of the Popes and breath and also to complete some articles as H A I G T received the Albert Hourani Book Award Sultans.” She will repeat this lecture at Brown well as shorter essays and book reviews. A E C K honorable mention for 2005, and the 2006 University on February 23. Gülru is currently T H U A R Fuat Koprülü Book Prize in Turkish Studies. writing the lead essay for the catalogue of a He completed his leave with a research trip N E & T forthcoming exhibition at the Louvre in col- to India, where he traveled with Harvard R U In March and April 2006, she delivered the laboration with the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, University doctoral candidates Chanchal S T keynote lectures in two symposia affiliated Paris. The exhibition, scheduled to run from Dadlani and Suzan Yalman. He made an F O with the exhibition “Bellini and the East,” held R October 2007 through January 2008, and additional research trip to Egypt in late May C at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, titled “Purs decors? Arts de l'Islam dans les through early June, visiting sites in Cairo and U L T Boston, and the British Museum, London. She collections des arts décoratifs,” is being Sinai with Jennifer Pruitt (currently in Egypt U R is currently turning her lecture into an article, curated by Remi Labrousse. on a Fulbright). The two research trips will E “The Italian Connection: Western Horizons inform David’s decisions about how to shape of Mehmed II’s Artistic Patronage,” to be a book on the broad topic of Islamic pilgrim- published in the symposium proceedings. age. In addition to a book-length study on pilgrimage, David’s future projects include a volume co-authored with Renata Holod on the 3 > AGA KHAN PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Faculty Post-doctoral Fellows > Myron Bement Smith archive at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and an exhibition for the Zeynep Tarım Ertug˘ Mattia Guidetti Museum of Fine Art, Houston on the practice A of calligraphy. Co-curated with Mary Zeynep graduated from the History Mattia received an M.A. in Oriental Languages G A McWilliams, this exhibition will focus on the Department of Marmara University in 1984.