Day two of the fourth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art is currently underway in Doha, Qatar at the Museum of Islamic Art, designed by I.M. Pei, where twelve speakers are discussing specific objects in the Museum’s collection.
The title of this Symposium is 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 discussed the Museum building as a work of Islamic art.
The following speakers read their papers today:
Rachel Ward: The Doha Bucket and an Experimental Glass Workshop(to be read by Jonathan Bloom)
Michael Franses: New Light on Early Anatolian Animal Carpets
Mohamed Zakariya: Murakkaa: The Ottoman Calligraphic Album and Its Role in Establishing the International Style
John Seyller: Assembled Beauty: Five Folios from the Jahangir Album
Eleanor Sims: 17th-Century Safavid Persian Oil Paintings in the Museum of Islamic Art
