Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World

Call for Papers – Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World, Utrecht University, May 22-23 2025 Historians of Islamic art have long been attentive to the sensory properties of material culture and architecture in the early modern period. The longstanding interest in perception coupled with more recent efforts to understand it as a multi-sensorial phenomenon has also nurtured breakthroughs in the study of aesthetics and major epistemological reorientations within the field. Hi...