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Islamic Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2021

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Acar, Tugrul, "The Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Mevlevi Socio-religious Buildings in Late Medieval Anatolia" (Harvard University, G. Necipoglu, D. Roxburgh )

Bellucci, Matteo, "Pietra Dura/Parchin Kari: Mediations between Florence and Mughal India" (Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), M. Aitken, J. Saslow)

Clemens, Olivia, "Forming ‘Islamic Art’ in the United States: Collecting and Exhibiting in the American Context, ca. 1880–1940." (Columbia University, A. Shalem )

Dillon, Claire, "Constructing the Histories of Norman Sicily: Production, Power, and Fragmentation in the Textile Industry and Beyond" (Columbia University, A. Shalem)

Wu, Sylvia, "Mosques of Elsewhere: Tale and Survival of Muslim Monuments in Coastal China" (University of Chicago, P. Berlekamp)

Ziaii-Bigdeli, Layah, "Materiality, Foodways and the Construction of Elite Cultural Identity in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Iranian World (3rd-10th century CE)" (University of California, Irvine, M. Canepa)