Faces of God: Author Murad Mumtaz in Conversation with Holly Shaffer on Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800

Date: 28 January 2025
Time: 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Location: Zoom
Presented by: The Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography

Join author and SoFCB Senior Fellow Murad Mumtaz and interviewer Holly Shaffer for a conversation about Mumtaz’s book Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800 (Brill, 2023). Following this conversation, the audience will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session moderated by Holly Borham. This event is part of a series celebrating new books in critical bibliography and is sponsored by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB).

This event is free and open to the public; however, advanced registration is required. To learn more about this event and to register, click here.

Murad Khan Mumtaz is Associate Professor of Art History at Williams College. He examines historical intersections of art, literature, and religious expression in South Asia, with a primary focus on Indo-Muslim patronage. His book Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting (Brill, 2023) focuses on early modern devotional artworks that were part of manuscripts. By combining art history with textual analysis, he examines the cultural contexts within which these Islamicate images of devotion were viewed. He is also an artist trained in traditional Hindustani painting techniques and continues to exhibit his work internationally.

Holly Shaffer is Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Brown University. She is the author of Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910, published in 2022 by the Paul Mellon Centre in association with Yale University Press, and is currently working on a new project on food, art, and the cultivation of taste.

Holly Borham is Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin.