# Alumni ## expand\_more Sort**Year** **Alumna/us** **Dissertation Title** 2011 Suzan Yalman A Period Of "Transformation:" Religion, Urbanism and Identity In The Architectural Patronage Of Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad (R.1220-37) 2009 Chanchal Dadlani "Twilight" in Delhi? Architecture, Aesthetics, and Urbanism in the Late Mughal Empire 2009 Jennifer A. Pruitt Fatimid Architectural Patronage and Changing Sectarian Identities (969-1021). 2007 Ladan Akbarnia Khita'i: Cultural Memory and the Creation of a Mongol Visual Idiom in Iran and Central Asia 2007 Sandy Meier Local Cityscapes and Transcultural Imaginaries: Competing Architectures of Mombasa 2005 Emine Fatma Fetvacı Viziers to Eunuchs: Transitions in Ottoman Manuscript Patronage, 1566-1617 2005 Pınar Kayaalp-Aktan The Atik Valide Mosque Complex: A Testament of Nurbanu's Prestige, Power and Piety 2005 Kristina Marie Van Dyke The Oral-Visual Nexus: Rethinking Visuality in Mali 2005 Steven Charles Wolf The Construction of Ottoman Aleppo: Modes and Meanings of Urban (Re-)organization 2005 E. Zeynep Yürekli Görkay Legend and Architecture in the Ottoman Empire: The Shrines of Seyyid Gazi and Haci Bektas 2004 Mark Dike DeLancey Representing Rulership: Palace Architecture, Spatial Orientation, Ritual Movement, and Secrecy in Northern Cameroon 2003 Persis Dorothy Berlekamp Wonders and their Images in Late Medieval Islamic Culture: "The Wonders of Creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388 2003 Sarah Carrig Bond Studies of the Romanesque Sculpture of Saint-Pierre de Mozac in Auvergne: Location and Meaning 2003 Amanda Rosenstock Luyster Courtly Images Far From Court: The Family Saint-Floret, Representation, and Romance 2003 Susan Elizabeth Spinale The Portrait Medals of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II (r. 1451-1481) 2002 May Farhat Islamic Piety and Dynastic Legitimacy: The Case of the Shrine of 'Ali b. Musa al-Riḍa in Mashhad (10th--17th century) 2002 Barry David Wood The "Shahnama-i Isma`il": Art and Cultural Memory in Sixteenth-Century Iran 2000 Ahmet Abdullah Ersoy On the Sources of the "Ottoman Renaissance:" Architectural Revival and its Discourse during the Abdulaziz Era (1861-1876) 2000 Oya Ayşe Pancaroğlu "A World unto Himself": The Rise of a New Human Image in the Late Seljuk Period (1150-1250) 2000 Alka Arvind Patel Islamic Architecture of Western India (mid-12th-14th Centuries): Continuities and Interpretations 1999 Rebecca Marie Foote Umayyad Markets and Manufacturing: Evidence for a Commercialized and Industrializing Economy in Early Islamic Bilad al-Sham 1998 Ann Taylor Shafer The Carving of an Empire: Neo-Assyrian Monuments on the Periphery 1996 Gauvin Alexander Bailey Counter-Reformation Symbolism and Allegory in Mughal Painting 1996 Elizabeth Dean Hermann Urban Formation and Landscape: Symbol and Agent of Social, Political and Environmental Change in Fourteenth-Century Nasrid Granada 1996 Çiğdem Kafescioğlu The Ottoman Capital in the Making: The Reconstruction of Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century 1994 Muhamad Tarek Nabil Swelim The Mosque of Ibn Tulun: A New Perspective 1992 Howyda Nawwaf Al-Harithy Urban Form and Meaning in Bahri Mamluk Architecture 1992 Nuha Naim Nasrallah Khoury The Mihrab Concept: Palatial Themes in Early Islamic Religious Architecture 1991 Zakaria bin 'Ali Islamic Art in Southeast Asia: 830 A.D.-1570 A.D. 1991 Roya Marefat Beyond the Architecture of Death: The Shrine of the Shah-i Zinda in Samarqand 1990 Mohammad al-Asad The Modern State Mosque in the Eastern Arab World, 1828-1985 1990 Ghada Hijjawi Qaddumi A Medieval Islamic Book of Gifts and Treasures: Translation, Annotation, and Commentary on the "Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf" 1989 Zahra Faridany-Akhavan The Problems of the Mughal Manuscript of the Hamza-nama: 1562-1577. A Reconstruction 1989 Scott Nicholas Redford The Ceramic Sequence from Medieval Gritille, SE Turkey 1989 Beatrice St. Laurent Ottomanization and Modernization. The Architectural and Urban Development of Bursa and the Genesis of Tradition, 1839-1914 1987 Michael Antony Brand The Khalji Complex in Shadiabad Mandu (India) 1987 Massumeh Farhad Safavid Single Page Painting, 1629-1666 1986 Gülru Necipoğlu-Kafadar The Formation of an Ottoman Imperial Tradition: The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Istanbul, Architecture, Ceremonial) 1986 John William Seyller The Freer Ramayana and the Atelier of 'Abd al-Rahim (Mogul, India) 1985 Thomas Woodward Lentz, Jr. Painting at Herat under Bysunghur Ibn Shahrukh (Iran) 1984 Perween Hasan Sultanate Mosque-Types in Bangladesh: Origins and Development. (Volumes I and Ii) 1982 Eva Rose Hoffman The Emergence of Illustration in Arabic manuscripts: Classical Legacy and Islamic Transformation 1981 Terry Allen Timurid Herat 1981 Sheila Randolph Canby The Life and Work of the Painter Riza 1981 Nancy Riva Shatzman Steinhardt Imperial Architecture under Mongolian Patronage: Khubilai's Imperial City of Daidu 1981 Stephen K. Urice Qasr Kharana: An Early Islamic Monument in the Transjordan 1980 Sheila S. Blair The Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran 1980 Jonathan Max Bloom Meaning in Early Fatimid Architecture: Islamic Art in North Africa and Egypt in the Fourth-Century A.H. (Tenth-Century A.D.) 1980 James Lionel Trilling The Medallion Style in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Mosaics and Textiles to c. A.D. 600 1978 Marianna Shreve Simpson The Illustration of an Epic: The Earliest 'Shahnama' Manuscripts 1976 Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter Buddhist Painting of the Hindu Kush: Bamiyan, Fondukistan, Foladi, Kakrak 1974 Hafez Kayssar Chehab Le Decor de Anjarr 1973 Judith Ann Lerner Winged Figures in Sasanian Art 1972 Renata Holod-Tretiak The Monuments of Yazd, 1300-1450: Architecture, Patronage and Setting 1971 Walter Bell Denny The Ceramics of the Mosque of Rustem Pasha and the Environment of Change