Join us on Sunday, February 22nd at 2pm EST for a new episode of The Insight Interviews: “An Architecture of Co-Existence in Medieval Syria”, featuring Dr. Stephennie Mulder on her book, ‘The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria – Sunnis, Shi’is and the Architecture of Coexistence’ which explores the relationship between Sunnis and Shi’is as expressed in the patronage and architecture of shrines, and links them to the wider, pan-Islamic landscape of interconnected pilgrimage sites created from these acts of patronage.
This instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.
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Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. She has conducted archaeological and art historical fieldwork in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and elsewhere in the region for over 20 years. Dr. Mulder’s book The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’s and the Architecture of Coexistence, published in 2014, received numerous awards. She has also published on medieval and contemporary art history, Islamic archaeology, and cultural heritage, including in the Journal of Islamic Archaeology, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology. Mulder is currently lead narrative developer for The White Banner, a historical role-playing game based on her excavation of an 8th century Islamic palatial villa in Syria.
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