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Feliks Gross and Henry Wasser Lecture: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe "Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity"
Start Date: 11/10/2022Start Time: 2:30 PM
End Date: 11/10/2022End Time: 4:00 PM

Event Description:

City Tech Assistant Professor of Business and Technology of Fashion, Nazanin Hedayat Munroe,
will be discussing the main ideas in her new book, Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks and Early Modern Identity (
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721738/sufi-lovers-safavid-silks-and-early-modern-identity) in a lecture on November 10th. 

The height of fashion at the sixteenth century Safavid court was an ensemble of shimmering gold and silk, interwoven with legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. Imbued with Sufi symbolism by Nizami Ganjavi, whose tales demonstrate earthly love as a divine phenomenon, silks portraying the romance held deep symbolic meaning for wearer and viewers, projecting messages of mystic aspiration. As Persian poetry was adopted in court circles from Iran to South Asia, Sufi behavior codes embodied by the characters were adapted and propagated by early modern rulers. This interdisciplinary study presents new evidence for reattribution of silks based on the migration of textile specialists from the Safavid to the Mughal court, where expert designers produced luxury goods for a sophisticated and educated elite. Examining textiles alongside Khamsa poetry, manuscript paintings, and primary accounts, the silks reveal cross-cultural expressions of piety and allegiance in a world unified by language and behavior codes, while fragmented by religion and politics. A textile artist as well as art historian, Dr. Hedayat Munroe will also demonstrate how historic textiles have impacted her studio practice.

Zoom meeting details:

https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/86018938297?pwd=SFByYnBqVEdTN3lwNVczbFlSdTMwUT09<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gc-2Dcuny-2Dedu.zoom.us_j_86018938297-3Fpwd-3DSFByYnBqVEdTN3lwNVczbFlSdTMwUT09&d=DwMFaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=qk0dLnN0MIjIaiCWq84UsaKcexUXTbW7pjosO-WbJK8&m=0yO1uP0kBKP9LlqsuyrhXDbja4zbirCsFn-1TQ4dpWTxvhYkIRFf_v3E2otwnr7A&s=eOgyGK8Xu-cK0RMPkWztHzeWH0PftWCm4RxVaUDmN2M&e=>
Meeting ID: 860 1893 8297
Passcode: 626951


Contact Information:
Name: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
Email: NMunroe@citytech.cuny.edu
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