Lectures in Islamic Art

Event

Elite Folktales: a 16th century collection of Persian stories in the Bodleian Library

Lecture by Nasrin Askari
12 May 2016, 5:30am Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge

Lecture by Nasrin Askari

Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library

Sponsored by the Fari Sayeed Fellowship and the Shahnameh Centre for Persian Studies, Pembroke College, Cambridge 

Light refreshments will be served; all are welcome to attend

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Lecture by J. M. Rogers

"Nothing Succeeds Like Excess": Princely Magnificence and an Ottoman Gift to Nadir Shah Afshar
29 Oct 2015

The first in this year's series of Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art (CLIA) will take place on Thursday 29 October. Our speaker will be Professor J. M. Rogers (The Nour Foundation; Khalili Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art at SOAS and Honorary Curator of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art), who will present a paper entitled '"Nothing Succeeds Like Excess": Princely Magnificence and an Ottoman Gift to Nadir Shah Afshar'

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