Aisha Mellah
University of Copenhagen, Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies,, Department Member
Published in Sfinx 35, 4 (2012)
Research Interests: Near Eastern Archaeology, Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Islamic History, Islamic art and architecture, and 2 moreIslamic art and archaeology and Painting, Orientalism, iconography, Middle East, Art History, Islamic civilization, iconology, near east, cultural criticism, oriental veil, veiling and unveiling, female portraiture
This paper sets out to investigate how the MIA (Museums of Islamic Art) in Doha incorporates its Islamic Art collection into a discourse of Qatari identity and heritage in a global context. Furthermore, the paper discusses the... more
This paper sets out to investigate how the MIA (Museums of Islamic Art) in Doha incorporates its Islamic Art collection into a discourse of Qatari identity and heritage in a global context. Furthermore, the paper discusses the repercussions and misrepresentations that can occur when an all-encompassing concept such as "Islamic art" is used on a highly selective corpus of material culture.
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Authors: L. Blanke, R.H. Barnes, K. Brunner, M. Brøndgaard Jensen, L. Goossens, R. Kneiss, A. Mellah, R. Pappalardo, D. Pilz, and A. Vernet