Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology
A starter pack for all things Islamic art
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@stephenniem.bsky.social
@eliasj.bsky.social
@beathas-ailsa.bsky.social
African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History. Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World. BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE) I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting.
@ronahigkdemir.bsky.social
Islamic archaeology & Kurdish cultural heritage & Northern Mesopotamia
@awettaraya.bsky.social
Eritrean Archaeologist | Curator | Academic. Currently Lecturer in Arts of Africa, SRU, UEA Research: Islamic, Medieval Archaeology, Material culture, Horn of Africa, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian/Persian Gulf
@charlottebank.bsky.social
Art historian and curator. Acting professor of Islamic Art at LMU Munich. Current research project: Queering Islamic Art: Expressions of Gender Diversity and Critique of Sexual Normativity in Contemporary Art.
@cevahirulebrar.bsky.social
MPhil Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford. Ottoman architecture and the lands of Mâverâünnehir. Ertegun Graduate Scholar in the Humanities, Khalili Research Centre+St Cross College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@menalibahs.bsky.social
Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard Fine Arts Library. Scholar of women in medieval Arabic pop lit. She/her/hers. Opinions≠employer's.
@drfayrouzibrahim.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Art Historian specializing in the Medieval period of the Mediterranean basin, with a focus on sacred art and architecture, material culture, and the early Islamic periods.
@rhigarthjones.bsky.social
Burnley girl in 🇩🇰, PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. 'Stealthily whimsical'. I want to live on a boat again. She/her. *All Roads Lead to Rome* out May 2025 with Aurum Press.
@ladanakbarnia.bsky.social
Museum curator at the San Diego Museum of Art (and formerly at The British Museum and Brooklyn Museum), San Diego County Commissioner for Arts and Culture, Curator of Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World (2024-25)
@cmaislamic.bsky.social
Sharing public domain works from the Islamic Art department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@bmislamicarts.bsky.social
Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@jwbenson.bsky.social
Trained bookbinder, conservator, paper marbler, codicologist, and manuscript cataloguer, and Leiden Ph.D.
@cageinbeakifly.bsky.social
The cage opened the door. It shook and squeezed, disinterested in my fall or flight. My friends! I shook out my fine feathers. These plumes are my pens. On written words and turned clay, On winged water and pressed sound I now fly.
@omabarr.bsky.social
Architect, MA in Conservation, PhD in Islamic History. Head of Development at the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation and Researcher at the V&A. Currently raising funds to restore Bayt al-Razzaz, a 15th c. palace in Historic Cairo built by Sultan Qaytbay.
@slamislamicart.bsky.social
Sharing artworks from the Islamic Art department of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@handle.invalid
Academic. Art Historian. Regional Australian. Egyptian Tentmakers and Shadow Theatre.
@mchidarazvi.bsky.social
Mughal Art & Architectural Historian; Specialist Lecturer on Cultural Tours; Associate Editor, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
@majnouna.bsky.social
Artist-scholar, specialised in early Arabic (Kufi) scripts & historical/natural materials. Beirut émigré in London. Earth lover, plastic-free. Contemplative. Whovian/Gallifrey… All the links: https://linktr.ee/Majnouna
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social
Hier berichtet der Stab Kommunikation aus der Arbeit von über die aktuelle Forschung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (DAI). Impressum: http://dainst.org/impressum
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@krebsverena.bsky.social
Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German Fixed-Term Professor. GIF lover. Getting better at remembering this app exists.
@verasimoneschulz.bsky.social
at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. she/her. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria