For the program of And Diverse Are Their Hues: Color in Islamic Art and Culture, held in November 2009, please click here. Please note that the papers will be edited and published by Yale University Press in the fall of 2011.
The twelve papers delivered at the Second Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, held in Doha, Qatar in 2007, have been edited and published by Yale University Press, and are now available for purchase. The book, titled Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture, includes an introduction by Editors and Symposium Organizers Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom and essays by Carole Hillenbrand, Yasser Tabbaa, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Linda Komaroff, Venetia Porter, Howayda Al-Harithy, Walter Denny, Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Catherine B. Asher Perween Hasan and Mohammad Al-Asad. Copiously illustrated with beautiful color photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond.
For the program of Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture, held in 2007, please click here.
