Archive for June 16th, 2026
Shii News – Academic Items
1. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 15.2
Special Issue: ‘Gender in Islamic Architecture’
Real and imagined spaces are inherently gendered. This relates to widely accepted heteronormative and patriarchal ways of living, and affects how buildings and cities are accessed, used, and experienced. Yet, women and marginalized peoples have found innovative ways to claim their right to experience and shape cities. Against these complex yet urgent ongoing questions, the contributors to this special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture interrogate the past and present relationship between gender and architecture through an interdisciplinary approach.
Including ‘Tactics of Resistance: Palestinian Women and the Reclamation of Space in the Old City of Hebron, Palestine’ by Rana Abughannam and Nuha Dandis and ‘Chlorine, Concrete, and Coquette: Women at the Pool in Egypt, 1930–69’ by Alexandra Camille Schultz.
For more information about the journal and issue click here:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
Issue 15.2
Table of Contents
Editorial
Women as Agents of Social Change and Disruptors of Normative Structures
GÜL KALE
Design in Theory Articles
Mother of Abundance, Queen of the Ill: Bezmiâlem Sultan and the Architectures of Tahaffuz
SHARON MIZBANI
RANA ABUGHANNAM AND NUHA DANDIS
SELİN ÜNLÜÖNEN
Chlorine, Concrete, and Coquette: Women at the Pool in Egypt, 1930–69
ALEXANDRA CAMILLE SCHULTZ
Fluid Boundaries, Liminal Identities: The Chhatri Tomb of Mughal Princess Shah Begum
SRINANDA GANGULY
Design in Practice Articles
Unveiling Sacred Boundaries in Qatar: Al-Mujadilah Center and Women’s Spatial Experience
FATEMA SHUBBAR, AMINA AL- KANDARI AND GÖZE BAYRAM
Book Reviews
HARVEY MOLOTCH
ASLIHAN GÜNHAN
ASMA MEHAN
SUNA GÜVEN
NADER SAYADI
Exhibition Review
SIBEL ZANDI-SAYEK
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Alex Dika Seggerman
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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
2. The production of material culture in the Islamic world (EHG 21st Colloquium)
The 21st colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Islamic art and archaeology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt discusses the Islamic world from a materiality perspective. The colloquium focuses on craftsmen, production techniques or ‘know how’, production centers and workshops and the transfer of knowledge and highlights social and economic dynamics that often go unnoticed. It hosts Islamic art historians and Islamic archaeologists in addition to scholars from the fields of manuscript studies, museology, archaeometry, and anthropology. Through this interdisciplinary discussion we hope to better understand social dynamics in the Islamic world during different eras.
All lectures takes place in Frankfurt. They are not livestreamed and not recorded.
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Registration to the colloquium until 25.6.26 by Mustafa Ahmad
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https://www.fb09.uni-frankfurt.de/186610338/EHG_Program_Poster_Draft_01.pdf
3. ARS APODEMICA
From the Sadberk Hanım Museum and Ömer Koç Collections
Curator: Makbule Merve Uca
8 May 2026-23 May 2027
Ars Apodemica constructs its narrative around journeys to Ottoman territories across a broad time span, from the late fifteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, approaching these travels through the motivations behind them. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Koç Group, the exhibition, composed of a selection of works from the Sadberk Hanım Museum and the Ömer Koç Collections, centers on travelogues that consider travel not merely as a change of place, but as a deliberate practice of selection and recording. Beyond these travelogues, paintings reflecting the world of the period and objects related to the Ottoman geography also appear in the exhibition as integral parts of this visual and intellectual process of production.
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- June 16, 2026
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