From Marrakesh to Isfahan: A discussion with Prof. Finbarr Barry Flood about the new books by Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami

All are invited to attend a joint book event online on between Farshid Emami, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University, and Abbey Stockstill, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Southern Methodist University, regarding their recent publications in the “Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies” series with Penn State Press, moderated by Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood.

“From Marrakesh to Isfahan: A discussion with Prof. Finbarr Barry Flood about the new books by Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami”

Friday, Sept. 13 | 11:00am CST

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Spanning the medieval to the early modern, and reaching across the breadth of the Islamic world, Stockstill and Emami take innovative approaches to studying urban space, drawing on phenomenological experiences and novel readings of historical source material. In doing so, they question traditional paradigms of urbanism in the Islamic lands, and explore alternative models for understanding metropolitan development. Stockstill’s book, Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib, explores the city’s emergence as a North African capital under the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, and the powerfully resonant role the surrounding landscape played in expressing authority and belonging on an urban scale. Emami’s Isfahan: Architecture & Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran develops the nature of Safavid cosmopolitanism as the product of a variety of individual and communal urban experiences, and expressed through the sensorial as much as the architectural.