Arts Seminar: The Sufi in the Garb of a Yogi: Articulations of Sanctity under Muslim Patronage in Early Modern Indian Painting
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Fri, Apr 6, 2018 from 03:30pm — 05:00pm
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This talk will discuss 16th and early-17th century album and manuscript paintings made for Muslim patrons where the Nāth yogi appears as an emblem and surrogate for the Islamic spiritual path of taṣawwuf (Sufism), an archetype for the mystical traveler (sālik) and a figure of spiritual longing.
Learn more about Murad Khan Mumtaz in his interview with SAI.
Co-sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Murad Khan Mumtaz, Artist and Researcher
Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
A reception will follow the seminar.
