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Massumeh Farhad, Simon Rettig. The Art of the Qur’an, Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts [PDF]

Abstracta Iranica, 2018
Ce catalogue, a l’iconographie particulierement riche et pertinente, a ete redige a l’occasion d’une exceptionnelle exposition presentee en 2016 a Washington. Y etaient essentiellement exposes de precieux manuscrits pretes par le TIEM (Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzesi, Istanbul), et mis en parallele avec quelques pieces de la Smithsonian Institution.
Chaigne, Frantz, Frantz Chaigne
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The Illumination Art of Shāhnāma-i Firdawsi’s Copy in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum

İslam Medeniyeti Araştırmaları Dergisi
The art of illumination has continued to evolve across various regions over centuries, adopting different stylistic characteristics. One of the key centers where the development of illumination can be traced and where works were produced over an extended period is the city of Shiraz, located in the Persian administrative region. This city, which served
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Iconographic Evaluation of the Kandil Motif on the Prayer Rugs Exhibited in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

Kesit Akademi
Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi’nde sergilenen Türklere ait en erken tarihli seccade örnekleri 15.yüzyıl Osmanlı Dönemine ait seccadelerdir. 15. yüzyıl Osmanlı Dönemine ait seccadelerin kompozisyonu kûfi yazı ve geometrik formla tasarlanmış olmaları 15.
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A group of Late Medieval War Hammers in the Collections of Edirne Turkish Islamic Art Museum

Peuce Serie Nouă
This study analyses a group of 12 metal war hammers in the collections of Museum of Turkish Islamic Art in Edirne. They were transferred from museums in Istanbul and Ankara, their place of discovery being unknown. By classifying, describing and evaluating them, an attempt will be made to reconstruct their use and chronology in the Ottoman period.
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt +7 more
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault, Alexandrine Barontini, Kiana Sakimehr +2 more
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ACT BLUR, LIVE LONGER: Muslim Artists Blurring the Categories of Singapore's Smart City

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 218-246, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In 2024, Singapore was again named “Smartest City in Asia,” a position achieved through the strategic deployment of surveillance infrastructures and technocratic governance. This article explores the practices of three Muslim artists whose work challenges the limiting categorizations produced by the intertwined logics of Smart Nation ...
JAMES MCGRAIL
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