Publications

“Camera, Canvas, and Qibla: Late Ottoman Mobilities and the Fatih Mosque Painting,” Muqarnas 38 (2021): 253–90.

“In Writing and in Sound: The Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 3–4/12 (2021): 433–74.

with Şebnem Eryavuz, Orhan Sakin, and Gülnur Duran. Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Collection of the Kubbealtı Foundation, trans. İrvin Cemil Schick (Istanbul: Kubbealtı Akademisi Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı, 2021).

TURKISH VERSION: with Şebnem Eryavuz, Orhan Sakin, and Gülnur Duran. Kubbealtı Vakfı Yazma Eserler Kataloğu (Istanbul: Kubbealtı Akademisi Kültür ve Sanat Vakfı, 2021).

with Bihter Esener, “Türkiye ve Dünyada İslam Sanatı: Christiane Gruber ile Söyleşi,” Toplumsal Tarih 335 (November 2021): 8–13.

“Efficacy is in the Prayer, not in the Image. Or vice versa?” Artefact of the Month No 2, CSMC, Hamburg, eds. Wiebke Beyer and Karin Backer (https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/aom/002-en.html).

“Depicting the Islamic Pilgrimage Sites: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Illustrated Prayer Books,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, Naples, 14–16 September 2015, eds. Michele Bernardini, Alessandro Taddei and Michael Douglas Sheridan (Ankara: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2018), 323–38.

“Mimarlık’ta Post-Modern Kuram ve Uygulama,” Mimarlık 376 (2014): 37–41.

“Analyzing the Mimarlık Journal: Post-Modern Theory and Practice in Turkey,” in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand: Open, Gold Coast, Queensland, 2–5 July 2013, eds. Alexandra Brown and Andrew Leach (Gold Coast, Qld: SAHANZ, 2013), 7–27.

with William James Harper, “Images of the Poor in Surname-i Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582,” in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Images of the Poor, Istanbul, 5–7 September 2012, eds. Veronika Bernard and Serhan Oksay (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2013), 97–116.

with Nina Ergin (Macaraig), “While a Country is Changing: Turkish Painting from the Ottoman Reformation to the Republican Period,” Turkish Historical Review 3 (2012): 229–34.

Talks & Lectures

“From Manuscripts to Panels: Ottoman Devotional Images of Mecca, Medina, and the Prophet Muhammad’s Belongings,” Devotional Talks at Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, 24 June 2021 (online).

“Printing and Painting, Sanctity and Protection: Representations of Mecca and Medina in Late Ottoman Visual Culture,” Virtual Islamic Art Workshop, 18 June 2020 (online).

“Image and Text Formulae of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem Representations in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Workshop on Writing as Intermediary: Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures, Bamberg 10–12 October 2019.

“Multiview: A Visual Mode for Depicting the Holy,” Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 13 August 2019.

“Production, Circulation, Ownership, and Recitation of the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Workshop on From West Africa to Southeast Asia: The History of Muhammad al-Jazuli’s Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt Prayer Book (15th–20th Centuries), New York / 17–18 May 2019 (in the scientific committee with Jan Just Witkam, Deniz Beyazıt, and Guy Burak).

“Libraries, Prayer Books, and Ottoman Royal Women,” The Arts of the Book in the Islamic World and the Role of Women, Doha, 7 March 2019.

“Multi-, Paraline, Perspectival, and Photographic Views: Travelling Images of the Islamic Pilgrimage and Visitation Sites,” CAHIM Seminar, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 26 November 2018.

“Printing and Painting, Sanctity and Protection: Representations of Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Visual Culture,” Orient-Institut Istanbul & Center for Studies of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Winter Academy II. Manuscript Cultures in Past and Present: Media Change and Cultural Transfer, Istanbul, 26 February–2 March 2018.

“Depicting the Islamic Holy Sites: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Illustrated Prayer Books,” The Mecca Painting in the Uppsala University: Aspects on Early Representations of Mecca and the Kaba in Ottoman Art, Istanbul, 20–21 April 2017.

Conference Presentations

“Depictions of the Prophet’s Tomb and Medina in the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt,” The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam, The 16th Colloquium of Ernst Herzfeld Society, Rome, 1–3 July 2021.

“Widening the Horizons of Mecca and Medina with Photographic Possibilities,” Regime Change, The Biennial Symposium of Historians of Islamic Art Association, 15–18 April 2021.

“Royal Women, the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt and the Enʿām-ı Şerīf: Private Ownership and Endowment of Prayer Books, The 16th International Congress of Turkish Art, Ankara, 3–5 October 2019.

“Variations on a Theme: Representing Islamic Pilgrimage and Visitation Sites,” The 5th International Conference of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, 'Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam, Adelaide, 21–23 July 2016.

“Travelling Images: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Mecca and Medina,” The 104th Annual Conference of College Art Association, Washington DC, 3–6 February 2016.

with Mustafa Kemal Baran, “Cultural Routes for Selçuk: Developing Sustainable Tourism Practices through Heritage,” The 2nd International Conference of Heritage, Tourism, and Hospitality, Amsterdam, 25–27 November 2016.

“Longing for the Holy Sites: Representations of Mecca and Medina in Prayer Books,” The 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, Naples, 14–16 September 2015.

“Analyzing the Mimarlık Journal: Post-Modern Theory and Practice in Turkey,” Open: The 30th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, 2–5 July 2013.

with William James Harper, “Images of the Poor in Surname-i Hümayun (Imperial Festival Book) of 1582,” 2nd Conference of Images of the Poor, Istanbul, 5–7 September 2012.



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