“Mamluk Aesthetics and Renaissance Italians, Out from the Ottoman Shadow” Session Sponsored by the Italian Art Society (IAS) Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 2019 Conference (Toronto, 17–19 March) Dealing with Islamic-Italian relations in the Mediterranean, early modern scholars have focused almost exclusively on the attitudes of the Venetians towards the Ottoman Turks. And yet, in contrast to the “barbaric” Turks, the Mamluks did not become the object of Christian Crusader rhetoric. If anything, the religion of the Mamluks seems to have mattered less than their economic stability and potential as allies against the Turks in the political-existential imaginations of Christians. […]

The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT presents Gazing Through A Lens: Ali Khan Documents Nineteenth Century Iran a film by Azadeh Tajpour Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Friday, 18 May 2018 |12:00 — 1:30 pm |MIT, room 3-133 The event is free and open to the public. Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries | 77 Massachusetts Avenue | Bldg. 7-238 Cambridge, MA 02139 | akdc@mit.edu