Welcome to the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
Welcome to the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
The fourth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art was held October 29 – 31, 2011 in Doha, Qatar at the Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I.M. Pei, where twelve speakers presented original papers on specific objects in the Museum’s collection.
The title of this Symposium was God Is Beautiful; He Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture, and the keynote address was given by Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author for The New Yorker, who will discuss the Museum building as a work of Islamic art.
To see a complete Symposium program, including speaker names and paper titles, click here.
